Steve Becker
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarSteve Becker is a software engineer with a decade of experience, currently building software at Microsoft from his base in Bellevue, Washington. He focuses on frontend and test automation, contributing to high-profile open web efforts such as the web-platform-tests project to harden browser behavior around the Native File System API and cross-origin FileSystemHandle messaging. Steve brings a pragmatic, security-minded approach to feature validation, often implementing edge-case and error-condition tests to improve platform robustness. Comfortable working at the intersection of specification and implementation, he translates web standards into reliable, testable behavior. Colleagues would describe him as detail-oriented and steady, with a knack for finding subtle interoperability issues before they ship.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
html10
javascript10
dom10
web-standards10
test-automation10
testing9
browser9
web-development9
test-runner9
firefox8
web-development-project8
webkit8
w3c7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
web-platform-tests/wpt
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:
Test Automation Engineer & Frontend Developer
Test Automation Engineer & Frontend DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on enhancing and expanding the web platform test suite within the `web-platform-tests/wpt` repository. Their contributions included adding and modifying tests for the Native File System API, specifically addressing validation of input parameters, handling error conditions, and ensuring correct behavior across different scenarios. The user also implemented tests to verify the correct handling of `messageerror` events when sending FileSystemHandle objects across origins and the behavior of the Native File System in sandboxed environments. These changes demonstrate a focus on ensuring the robustness and security of web platform features.
microsoft-edgetest-runnerspecssafarifirefox
SteveBeckerMSFT/repro_pages
May 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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