Lucas Garron
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Garron is a product-focused engineer with 15 years of experience building secure, pragmatic web systems from browser UX to backend APIs. With roots in mathematics and MS CS from Stanford, he has driven web security initiatives at Google and GitHub—helping ship DevTools security features, HSTS preload infrastructure, and passkeys/WebAuthn—and now applies that expertise to full‑stack product engineering at Red Queen Dynamics. A prolific open-source contributor, he created and improved widely used test sites like badssl.com and permission.site and has maintained security-focused libraries such as secure_headers and a clipboard polyfill. He blends careful backend and DevOps work (API design, CI/CD, release pipelines) with progressive enhancement on the frontend, and is motivated by a clear mission: making the open web safer and more usable.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (57)
git10
javascript10
content-security-policy10
ssl10
tls1210
apidoc10
es6-promise10
testing10
csc10
css10
tls1310
signing10
cicd10
ruby10
mtls10
Programming languages (40)
Github contributions (5)
chromium/hstspreload.org
Feb 2016 - Jul 2018
:lock: Chromium's HSTS preload list submission website.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 227 commits, 41 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily focused on back-end development and code organization within the Chromium HSTS preload list submission website. Their contributions include fixing code, refactoring file handlers and scripts, converting page.html to index.html, and implementing the API using the hstspreload package. They updated server.go to utilize a new Issues-based API and implemented datastore interactions for update and pending operations, and added a /checkdomain endpoint.
chromiumhstspreloadchromesecurity
lgarron/clipboard-polyfill
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
:clipboard: Simple copying on the web, with maximum browser compatibility. (You probably don't need this anymore!)
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 2 reviews, 498 commits in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the clipboard polyfill. They added features such as the implementation of `clipboard.paste()` using Promises and the support for both copy and paste operations to use Promises. They also refactored existing code and incorporated DOM node copying, handling edge cases such as IE behavior and various pasting errors. Furthermore, the user improved the example page to showcase the new features.
maximumapiclipboardbrowserpolyfill
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