Lorenzo Álvaro
Owner at Igalia
Galicia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolLorenzo Álvaro is a senior software engineer and long-time partner at Igalia with 17 years of experience specializing in web browsers and open-source projects around Chromium and WebKit. As an owner and hands-on developer since the mid-2000s, he blends low-level browser engineering with front-end polish, contributing to projects like Brave’s Muon and the LibrePlan planner UI. He’s known for pragmatic refactors—encapsulation improvements, traffic annotation additions, and modernizing callbacks—that keep large codebases maintainable while solving tricky features like print preview. Based in Galicia, Spain, Lorenzo pairs his formal computer engineering background with deep institutional knowledge of browser internals and web platform interoperability. Colleagues rely on him for coordination across complex multi-repo efforts and for shipping dependable, cross-component fixes that aren’t always visible to end users.
17 years of coding experience
Ingeniería, Informática, Ingeniería, Informática at Universidad de A Coruna
English
Github Skills (17)
webbrowser10
javascript10
c-language10
component-development10
css10
chromium10
user-interface10
web-components10
browser10
front-end-development10
web-development10
frontend10
cprogramming-language10
gantt-chart10
print9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
LibrePlan/libreplan
Apr 2009 - Jul 2013
LibrePlan - Open Web Planning
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1172 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lorenzo's commits primarily focus on front-end development within the LibrePlan project, specifically related to the user interface of the planner. The commits involve modifying CSS files and JavaScript code to enhance visual elements, such as cursor behavior and the presentation of time tracking data. The changes suggest an active role in developing and maintaining the user interface aspects of the Gantt chart and related components.
planningphp
brave/muon
Jul 2017 - Aug 2018
[DEPRECATED] Build browsers and browser like applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 840 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Lorenzo contributed to the Brave browser's Muon project, which is deprecated, by modifying the code related to browser context, printing functionalities, and utility components. Their work includes changes in encapsulation for the Prefs service and implementing fixes for print preview-related issues. Moreover, the user was involved in removing parameters, refactoring code to use `base::BindOnce`, adding traffic annotations, and incorporating several Chromium commit updates.
browserbrowserscssjavascriptweb-browser
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