Kelvin Jiang
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKelvin Jiang is a software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently building Chrome extensions at Google after graduating from the University of Waterloo. He has broad full‑stack expertise from internships at Facebook, Uber, and Coursera and early backend work at Visier and Top Hat, repeatedly shipping performance and UX improvements. At Google he contributes to Chromium front-end WebUI work—implementing accessible sign-out dialogs and fine-grained extension UI tweaks—highlighting a focus on polished, production-quality interfaces. Kelvin combines rapid learning with hands-on ownership of features across frontend, backend, and data pipelines, including real-time streaming and optimization wins (e.g., 95% rendering speedups and reduced aggregation latency). Based in San Francisco, he looks for teams with strong learning cultures where he can continue to ship impactful user-facing products.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering, Software Engineering, cGPA: 3.8, Bachelor of Software Engineering, Software Engineering, cGPA: 3.8 at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (7)
html10
webui10
css10
accessibility10
chromium10
javascript10
ui-design9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chromium/chromium
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Kelvin's commits primarily focus on converting the sign-out confirmation dialog in Chromium to a WebUI implementation. This involves creating the necessary WebUI classes and structure for the dialog, including the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript components. Furthermore, the user is making adjustments to existing extension UI elements by changing icon colors and spacing for extension upload, indicating a focus on UI/UX improvements within the Chromium extensions framework. They are also responsible for a11y labels.
chromiumgithub-mirrorchrome
Celsius273/2048-tris
Mar 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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