Nick Burris
Software Developer III at Google
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNick Burris is a Software Developer III at Google with 11 years of engineering experience and a BS in Computer Science from Dalhousie University. Since joining Google after three internships across Search, Maps, and Chrome, he has shipped user-facing features, performance-critical systems, and infrastructure for Chrome. He contributes to web-platform-tests, adding comprehensive WPT coverage for features like scroll-to-text and related security edge cases, reflecting a strong focus on web standards and browser correctness. Comfortable in both product and QA roles, he blends test automation discipline with feature development to improve reliability at scale. Based in Old Toronto, he continues to explore personal projects showcased on his website, demonstrating curiosity beyond his day job. Notably, his early hands-on work building a restaurant website and customer-facing roles inform a pragmatic, user-centered approach to engineering.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Computer Science (BCSc), Computer Science, 4.0, Bachelor of Computer Science (BCSc), Computer Science, 4.0 at Dalhousie UniversityInternational Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma & High School Diploma, International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma & High School Diploma at Cole Harbour District High School
English, French
Stackoverflow
11reputation
1kreached
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Github Skills (20)
webpagetest10
testing10
webtest10
web-testing10
test-automation10
javascript9
web-standards9
html9
dom8
browser8
maven6
extends6
grpc6
grpc-java6
gradle6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
web-platform-tests/wpt
Feb 2019 - Nov 2022
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:3 reviews, 29 commits, 6 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Nick's contributions primarily involve creating and updating Web Platform Tests (WPTs) for various web platform specifications, including scroll-to-text and related security features. They implemented tests for features such as scroll-to-text fragment directives, element anchors, and security restrictions. They also refactored existing tests and added new test cases covering various scenarios and edge cases, ensuring comprehensive test coverage.
microsoft-edgetest-runnerspecssafarifirefox
nickburris/nickburris.github.io
Dec 2019 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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