Jeremy Roman
Staff Software Developer at Google
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJeremy Roman is a Staff Software Developer with 16 years of experience at Google, primarily contributing to the Chromium project where he focuses on backend efficiency, build-performance improvements, and optimization of core data structures. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, he has progressed through multiple engineering levels at Google since internships in 2011–2013, demonstrating deep familiarity with browser internals and large C++ codebases. He also contributes to web-platform-tests, improving HTML PortalElement behavior and test infrastructure, showing a blend of systems-level performance work and standards-focused testing. Known for reducing compile times through careful include/forward-declaration work, he brings a pragmatic attention to low-level details that yield outsized productivity gains across massive repositories.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (32)
build-time10
code-optimization10
javascript10
c-language10
testing10
ruby10
dom10
performance-optimization10
web-standards10
optimisation10
html10
performance-tuning10
cprogramming-language10
optimization10
test-automation10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
web-platform-tests/wpt
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 28 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily contributed to web platform test suites, focusing on the HTMLPortalElement feature. Their work included adding tests for referrer policy, activation behavior, and event handling. They implemented tests for the new click-to-activate feature of the Portal element. Additionally, the user worked on improving the `wptserve` testing infrastructure, including adding a header_or_default function.
w3ctestingtest-automationbrowserwhatwg
chromium/chromium
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily focuses on optimizing the Chromium source code, making changes to improve performance and reduce compile times. Their commits involve reducing unnecessary header includes and forward-declaring definitions to decrease the size of preprocessed source files. They also contribute to code related to optimization and model execution, including changes to enums and data structures. The user's work demonstrates a focus on code efficiency and build performance.
chromiumbrowser
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