Nicolás Peña
Software Engineer at Google
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolás Peña is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in web performance APIs and browser internals, currently contributing to Chrome at Google from Old Toronto. He focuses on standardizing and implementing features like EventTiming and ElementTiming, and has a track record of improving reliability through tests and refactors in web-platform-tests. On the Chromium Android side he implemented FedCM UI enhancements, adding multi-IDP support, richer account displays, and robust Android-side plumbing and tests. With a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and a math background from Universidad de Los Andes, he blends rigorous academic training with pragmatic engineering. Peers describe him as detail-oriented in reducing flakiness and shipping maintainable UI and test code across a high-profile open-source browser codebase.
9 years of coding experience
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of TorontoUniversidad de los Andes
Github Skills (13)
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javascript10
mobile-development10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
android-development10
java10
test-automation10
webapi9
performance-testing9
html9
web-standards8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
web-platform-tests/wpt
Jul 2017 - Oct 2022
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:
Test Automation Engineer & Front-end Developer
Test Automation Engineer & Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 201 commits, 28 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nicolás primarily focused on adding and improving the test suite for the repository. They wrote new tests to verify the behavior of the EventTiming and ElementTiming APIs, including tests for new features such as the target attribute. The contributions demonstrate the user's focus on front-end technologies by testing and verifying aspects of the browser's performance APIs, involving interactions with the user interface. They also improved existing test cases, correcting, making tests less flaky and making them run in a more efficient manner.
microsoft-edgetest-runnerspecssafarifirefox
chromium/chromium
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:35 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicolás's commits primarily focus on enhancing the FedCM (Federated Credential Management) user interface for Android. They added features like multi-IDP support by plumbing the list of IDPs to the Android UI, enabling three-line account displays, and incorporating multi-IDP titles and icons. The contributions also involve refactoring and improvements to the Android UI codebase, including tests and the removal of code related to features no longer needed.
chromiumgithub-mirrorchrome
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