Nathan Lapré
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
United States
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Top SchoolNathan Lapré is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building robust C++ systems and improving platform-level quality, currently at Apple after driving accessibility work on Firefox. He has deep systems and tooling experience from game engine and live-service work at Blizzard—authoring editor subsystems, cross-platform libraries, and performance fixes—and from SDK development at Esri where he cut texture memory by up to 40%. Nathan contributes to web-platform-tests, adding accessibility-focused ARIA tests and improving spec compliance, showing a commitment to standards and QA automation beyond product code. Comfortable across large codebases, he blends low-level performance tuning with pragmatic developer tooling and strong cross-team communication. He also has hands-on experience in mapping web apps and internal documentation, reflecting a habit of shipping clear, maintainable solutions. Colleagues rely on him for durable engineering and thoughtful accessibility-first thinking that often catches subtle spec and testing gaps.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, RiversidePoly High School
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
html10
accessibility10
acessibility10
acc10
web-standards10
wai-aria10
accessibilityservice10
test-automation10
testing10
dom9
javascript8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
web-platform-tests/wpt
Mar 2024 - Oct 2024
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 7 PRs, 1 push in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nathan's contributions primarily focus on enhancing and maintaining the test suite for the web platform specifications. They added tests for accessibility features, specifically related to ARIA roles and labels, ensuring proper behavior of elements with `display: contents` and correcting errors in existing tests. They also enabled and corrected tests for orphaned roles within different ARIA contexts and moved some failing tests to a tentative file pending spec discussion.
w3ctestingtest-automationbrowserwhatwg
nmlapre/audiovisual
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
A software synthesizer library and Windows GUI implementation
Contributions:2 reviews, 12 commits, 12 PRs in 9 months
windowswindows-gui
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