Michael Van Ouwerkerk
Software Engineer - Chrome For Android at Google
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Van Ouwerkerk is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building consumer-facing products at Google, currently shaping Chrome for Android features like Push, Geolocation, Custom Tabs and shared clipboard. He combines front-end UI craftsmanship with backend and mobile integration experience, having shipped features across Search, Google Voice, Picasa mobile, and Google Offers. Comfortable across Android apps, web UI, logging and A/B experimentation, he focuses on measurable user experience improvements. Trained in psychology and multimedia design, he brings a rare mix of user-centric thinking and technical depth to engineering tradeoffs. Notably, his background includes leading development of dozens of Ajax components and accessibility work early in his career, informing a pragmatic approach to inclusive product design.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Psychology, Psychology at Leiden UniversityBA, Communication & Multimedia Design, BA, Communication & Multimedia Design at Willem de Kooning AcademieGrafimedia Technology, Grafimedia Technology at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (41)
gstreamer10
chromium10
browser10
chrome-extension10
push-notifications10
browser-support10
android-browser10
androidx10
api10
chrome10
android10
push-api10
vaapi10
bubblewrap9
src9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mvano/mvano.github.io
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:31 PRs, 114 pushes, 10 branches in 8 years
mvano/push-api
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:7 pushes, 24 branches in 3 months
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