José Leal
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosé Leal is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building embedded and systems software across automotive, drone, and consumer hardware domains. Based in Seattle, he has strong C++, Python, and Java skills and a track record implementing sensor drivers, BSPs, diagnostic tooling, and failsafe vehicle functions for companies like Microsoft, Sonos, Amazon, Continental, and Karma Automotive. Passionate about self-driving car technologies, he complements industry work with hands-on projects in computer vision, deep learning, localization, and path planning, and holds a Udacity Self-Driving Car Nanodegree. José is also an active front-end contributor to high-profile open-source projects like Chrome DevTools, where he improved accessibility and performance tracking—an unusual cross-domain blend that helps him bridge low-level embedded constraints with polished user experiences.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electronic and Computer Sciences, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electronic and Computer Sciences at Tecnológico de MonterreyCertificate O.S. and Advanced Programming, Certificate O.S. and Advanced Programming at ECE. Ecole d'ingénieurs. Engineering School.Self-Driving Car Nanodegree, Self-Driving Car Nanodegree at Udacity
English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
accessibility10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
developer-tools10
devtools10
html9
css9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
react7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ChromeDevTools/devtools-frontend
May 2019 - Mar 2021
The Chrome DevTools UI
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:José primarily contributed to the Chrome DevTools frontend, focusing on improvements to the UI and user experience. They added performance tracking for remote module loading, improved focus behavior in the Layers tool, and fixed accessibility issues, specifically with the Grid component. They also addressed bugs related to the "Pretty print" functionality and geolocation settings, enhancing usability. Furthermore, the user worked on refactoring and type checking to enhance code quality.
instrumentationreactjavascriptchromecdp
joselea/junglepwa
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Test pwa
Contributions:28 PRs, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
pwa-testpwa
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