Mario Prada
Team Coordination, Business Development, Project Management, Strategy And Sales
A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
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Top SchoolMario Prada is a seasoned Linux and browser software engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience and over 20 years in the field, now leading team coordination, business development and strategy at Igalia from A Coruña. He combines deep technical expertise—contributing to Chromium, WebKit, Blink and privacy-focused work in Brave's core—with commercial leadership as a long-time partner and co-owner of Igalia. Mario has shipped cross-cutting improvements from browser servification and Tor integration to internationalizing popular extensions and migrating web-platform tests, demonstrating both low-level systems skill and attention to web standards. He is experienced in coordinating distributed engineering teams and translating open source contributions into product and business growth. Notably, his work spans accessibility, rendering and secure networking, reflecting a rare blend of performance, privacy and ecosystem stewardship.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering (MSc), Computer Science, Computer Engineering (MSc), Computer Science at University of A Coruña
Spanish, Galician, English
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Github Skills (26)
webbrowser10
javascript10
c-language10
flex10
browser-extension10
testing10
css10
internationalization10
user-interface10
browser10
chrome-extension10
webengine10
chrome-app10
security10
localization10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
brave/brave-core
Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:368 reviews, 1930 commits, 159 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Mario's commits focus on enhancing the Brave browser's core engine by modifying existing functionalities. They were involved in adapting the ProfileManager, adding new features for privacy. The changes included adjustments to how profile names are obtained and handled, and the implementation of features like a switch to Tor profile and ensuring that HTTPS traffic gets properly processed, which demonstrates an understanding of both performance optimization and secure networking protocols. Their focus appears to be enhancing the security and privacy features of the browser.
browserwindowsbrave-browserlinuxandroid
web-platform-tests/wpt
Sep 2019 - Apr 2020
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:51 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Mario primarily migrated existing CSS flexbox tests from a Chromium-specific location to the Web Platform Tests (WPT) directory. This involved updating the test files with proper metadata, including links to relevant specifications and test assertions. They also refactored the tests to utilize the testharness.js framework and check-layout-th.js for layout testing, replacing Chromium-specific test runner functions. Additionally, the user updated and renamed existing tests for better consistency and clarity within the WPT framework.
microsoft-edgetest-runnerspecssafarifirefox
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