Patrick Meenan
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Meenan is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience making the web faster and more reliable, currently focused on performance work at Google and advising Catchpoint on WebPageTest. He founded WebPagetest.org and has a long history of building production-scale performance tooling and monitoring systems, including leadership roles at Cloudflare, Facebook, and AOL. Patrick combines deep protocol and browser knowledge with hands-on engineering—his open-source contributions include Cloudflare Workers templates that optimize Google Fonts and third-party scripts and significant tests for the Web Platform Tests suite. Known for shipping pragmatic fixes (range-request handling, robust match replacements, improved exception and protocol handling), he bridges standards conformance and real-world performance. Based in Virginia, he pairs an aerospace engineering background from UIUC with a computer science degree from George Mason, reflecting a systems-minded approach to web performance. He brings rare cross-cutting expertise spanning browsers, edge compute, and monitoring networks that accelerates both standards and product delivery.
15 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Aerospace Engineering, Aerospace Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at George Mason University
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
testing10
cloudflare-workers10
web-performance10
optimisation10
web-standards10
html10
web-optimization10
optimization10
test-automation10
css9
fetch9
dom9
web-development9
http8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
cloudflare/templates
Oct 2018 - May 2019
Templates for Cloudflare Workers
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 5 PRs, 18 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the `fast-google-fonts` and `third-party-scripts` examples. Their work involved implementing and refining worker scripts to optimize web performance, specifically by inlining CSS from Google Fonts and proxying third-party scripts. Further contributions include fixes for multiple match replacements, exception handling, and improved protocol handling within the codebase. These changes demonstrate a focus on enhancing web performance and security within the Cloudflare Workers environment.
cloudflare-r2cloudflareserverlessworkersstarter-templates
web-platform-tests/wpt
Nov 2021 - Dec 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:6 commits, 3 comments, 1 issue in 1 year
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to enhancing the web platform tests for the WPT repository. Their work focused on developing and implementing tests for the Priority Hints API, covering various DOM attributes and fetch API touch points. They also fixed a bug related to the handling of range requests in the fetch API and updated tests to reflect name changes in the spec. These contributions ensure the ongoing quality and conformance of web standards.
microsoft-edgetest-runnerspecssafarifirefox
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