Nicolas Arciniega
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNicolas Arciniega is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-scale web and networking features for browsers, currently contributing to the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge in Redmond. He has deep expertise in large C++ codebases, multithreading, web compatibility and security—having modernized URL parsing, reworked subresource download flows to align with the Fetch algorithm, and implemented remote User-Agent spoofing for compatibility. Nicolas also improved test infrastructure and auditing tools to prevent unexpected network calls, and authored team-wide coding guidelines while reviewing cross-team changes. Comfortable across Windows, EdgeHTML and Chromium stacks, he combines rigorous problem-solving with strong bilingual communication (English/Spanish) and a proven track record of making the web safer and more compatible at scale.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Electrical Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (44)
accessibility10
webdriver10
devrel10
chromium10
build-system10
browser10
devtools10
documentation10
microsoft9
puzzle8
google-chrome8
microsoft-edge8
electron7
testing7
typescript7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
naarcini/puzzlehunt-tools
May 2018 - Jul 2025
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 years 3 months
naarcini/misc
May 2018 - Aug 2023
Contributions:5 pushes in 5 years 3 months
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