Robert Mcelrath
Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Mcelrath is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently at Google in Sunnyvale, California, with prior stints at Google (earlier), Xperiel, and internships at Microsoft and Facebook. He focuses on browser internals and web platform reliability, contributing full‑stack code and tests to high-profile open-source projects like the Chromium repository—improving WebRequest coverage, reducing test flakiness, and optimizing isolated web app behaviors. Robert combines deep systems and testing expertise with practical engineering hygiene, routinely refactoring and sharding tests to boost performance and stability. A Carnegie Mellon computer science graduate, he brings a strong foundation in rigorous engineering and a track record of shipping subtle, specification-driven fixes in complex codebases.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (7)
javascript10
web-development10
webtest10
browser-testing10
web-testing10
html9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
chromium/chromium
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Robert's commits primarily focus on modifying and extending browser tests within the Chromium repository, specifically targeting isolated web apps and controlled frame functionalities. Their work involves updating existing tests to cover more WebRequest event handlers, including adding coverage for different response and request headers, redirects, and authentication scenarios. The contributions include creating new tests and modifying existing ones to ensure the browser's behavior aligns with expected specifications in various web request scenarios. The user also refactored tests to improve performance and reduce flakiness by sharding and re-enabling specific WPTs.
chromiumgithub-mirrorchrome
robbiemc/isolated-web-apps
Jul 2022 - Feb 2025
Repository for explainers and other documents related to the Isolated Web Apps proposal.
Contributions:39 pushes, 31 branches in 2 years 7 months
web-appsisolated
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