Noam Rosenthal
Software Engineer at Google
Hove, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarNoam Rosenthal is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building web platforms, currently working at Google from Hove, UK. He combines deep front-end expertise in CSS and web-platform testing with back-end protocol work on Fetch and Service Worker specifications, contributing to high-profile W3C and WHATWG projects. His open-source contributions include implementing CSS shape functions, enhancing Resource/Navigation Timing exposure, and authoring nuanced web-platform tests for images and paint timing. Previously he led architecture and engineering efforts at Wix, Samsung, and as an independent consultant, bridging product needs with standards-driven implementations. Known for translating specification detail into production-grade behavior, he brings a rare mix of standards influence and hands-on delivery. Beyond code, his background spans leadership and consultancy roles that unwind complex interoperability problems across browsers and web APIs.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
testing10
css10
http10
standard-js10
standardized10
service-worker10
web-standards10
fetch10
html10
web-development10
documentation10
image-processing9
test-automation9
dom8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
whatwg/fetch
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Fetch Standard
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:334 reviews, 25 commits, 54 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Noam primarily focuses on enhancing the `whatwg/fetch` repository by integrating Resource Timing and Navigation Timing APIs. Their contributions involve adding and modifying timing information related to fetch requests and responses, including the implementation of "create an opaque timing info" and other timing-related functionality. The user's work also encompasses the addition and modification of `Server-Timing` and `Sec-Purpose` header handling to improve the fetch standard.
fetchwhatwg
web-platform-tests/wpt
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:107 reviews, 153 commits, 191 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Noam's contributions primarily focused on adding and improving web platform tests, specifically related to image and CSS features. Their work involved creating tests for content-dpr, image-set, and image-orientation properties, as well as for testing paint timing. They added tests for edge cases such as negative and zero values for content-dpr. They authored tests covering CSS masking features.
microsoft-edgetest-runnerspecssafarifirefox
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