Nidhi Jaju
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolNidhi Jaju is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with seven years of experience focused on Chrome’s loading and networking stack, and she is based in Tokyo. She contributes to high-impact open-source projects including the official Chromium mirror and Web Platform Tests, working across resource loading, preloading, autofill, and WebTransport/Streams API test coverage. Her work spans full-stack browser engineering, DevTools frontend improvements, and standards contributions to WHATWG Streams, showing comfort with both runtime behavior and spec-level fixes. Nidhi has a track record of improving browser reliability and testing, including refactors that replace recursion with async/await to simplify stream examples and bug fixes that tighten platform semantics. Early internships across GPU compute, IoT, and service worker teams plus an MEng from Imperial College underpin a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to performance and correctness. She blends production-grade engineering at Google with thoughtful open-source stewardship on some of the web’s most widely used projects.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
ENGINEERING, ENGINEERING at Stanford UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng, Electronic and Information Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electronic and Information Engineering at Imperial College LondonSeisen International School in Tokyo - An IB World School
English, Japanese, Hindi
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
c-language10
testing10
standard-js10
chromium10
test-framework10
standardized10
ui-design10
devtools10
stream10
uid10
front-end-development10
resource-loading10
chrome10
web-standards10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
whatwg/streams
Oct 2020 - Nov 2021
Streams Standard
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 12 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nidhi primarily contributed to the WHATWG Streams Standard by fixing bugs and making editorial improvements. Their work included debugging and refactoring the existing example code for readable byte streams, which involved the transition from recursion to iteration using async/await. The user also addressed several issues, such as requiring a non-zero value for `autoAllocateChunkSize` and fixing errors in `ReadableStreamBYOBReaderRead`. Additionally, they updated documentation and removed unused code.
javascriptstreamsstreams-standardstreamingstream
web-platform-tests/wpt
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
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:29 reviews, 27 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nidhi's contributions primarily involve adding and modifying Web Platform Tests (WPTs) for various WebTransport and Streams API features. These tests cover aspects such as Content Security Policy (CSP) integration, connection establishment, bidirectional and unidirectional stream closure, and error handling. The commits demonstrate a focus on thorough testing of the WebTransport and Streams API specifications.
microsoft-edgetest-runnerspecssafarifirefox
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