Paul Bone
Staff Software Engineer at Mozilla
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolPaul Bone is a Staff Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 13 years of experience focused on programming language implementation, parallelism, and systems-level memory engineering. He holds a PhD in Computer Science for work on automatic parallelisation for the Mercury language and now applies that expertise to Firefox’s memory allocator and SpiderMonkey garbage collector at Mozilla. Paul combines deep low-level C/C++ knowledge—evidenced by contributions to bdwgc and Gecko’s page heap controller—with front-end profiler work improving performance visualizations. He authors the open-source Plasma language and has published research and given invited talks, blending academic rigor with production-grade impact. Notably, his work reduces pause times and memory footprint in large consumer software while also improving debugging and observability in core runtime systems.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The University of MelbourneBachelor Applied Science (Computer Science), Bachelor Applied Science (Computer Science) at RMIT University
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
c-language10
performance-monitor10
system-programming10
memory-management10
c1110
redux10
devtools10
c1710
low-level-programming10
performance-analysis10
firefox10
performance-optimization10
cprogramming-language10
profiler10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
firefox-devtools/profiler
Jul 2017 - Jul 2020
Firefox Profiler — Web app for Firefox performance analysis
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 39 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the Firefox Profiler's front-end development, focusing on improving the display and functionality of the profiling data visualizations. Their work involved enhancing the GC (Garbage Collection) timeline tooltips by adding more detailed information and adjusting the display of the timing information. They also refactored code related to number and time formatting and updated the codebase to align with these changes. This suggests a strong understanding of the project's core data presentation aspects and performance analysis features.
firefoxreactgecko-profilerperformance-analysisjavascript
mozilla/gecko-dev
May 2017 - Jan 2023
Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:615 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to low-level memory management within the project. Their work involved refactoring and optimizing the PHC (Page Heap Controller) component, focusing on improving cache locality and reducing contention. The user moved data structures and methods to improve performance. This included modifications to core components like GMut, PHCRegion, and the page allocation logic, demonstrating a deep understanding of memory allocation and system-level optimization.
repositoriesfirefoxmercurialgit-mirrormozilla
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