Jeffrey Young
Software Engineer L5 at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Young is a Software Engineer L5 with 11 years of experience building user-facing and backend systems, currently focused on ChromeOS personalization at Google. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from Georgia Tech with a machine learning focus and blends that foundation with hands-on front-end work—most recently contributing accessibility and offline fixes to the high-profile Chromium project. Previously he led backend engineering at PastureMap, improving API performance and data integrity for agricultural users, and has driven developer tooling and microservice patterns in fast-paced product teams. Based in New York, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with product empathy and a penchant for using software to make the world better, and outside work he’s an animal lover and avid outdoor enthusiast.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (11)
accessibility10
webaccess10
chromium10
javascript10
labeling10
user-interface10
label10
html9
dom-manipulation9
web-components8
css8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chromium/chromium
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:58 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey primarily contributed to the Chromium project by fixing UI issues related to the wallpaper subpage in the ChromeOS personalization app. Their work ensured the wallpaper subpage was visible and functional even without a network connection, addressing issues with loading tiles in the iron-list component. Additionally, the user implemented better aria descriptions for thumbnails in the SeaPen images element. Further improvements included displaying an action URL link in the description and providing context for screen readers with the aria-label.
chromiumgithub-mirrorchrome
cwmoo740/pycharm
Jun 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:156 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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