Timothy Giles
Senior Frontend Engineer at Mozilla
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Giles is a Senior Frontend Engineer with a decade of experience building accessible, user-focused web applications and components. Based in Charlottesville, he has led front-end efforts at Mozilla—owning the Form Autofill module and improving password and credit card autofill for millions of users—while driving cross-team solutions that reduce site-specific regressions. He pairs an MSc in Computer Science with hands-on expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5/CSS, and CI/CD to deliver maintainable, robust systems and rapid product prototypes. A long-time accessibility advocate, he developed company-wide accessibility tooling at Silverchair and contributes front-end improvements to high-profile open-source projects like Mozilla’s gecko-dev. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic engineering that balances UX, security, and scalability.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.52, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.52 at Christopher Newport University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
html10
css10
javascript10
gecko10
ui-components10
accessibility9
lit-element9
webaccess9
user-interface8
graphical-user-interface8
ui-design8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/gecko-dev
Jul 2020 - 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:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:169 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Timothy primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the repository, focusing on developing reusable UI components and enhancing existing ones, particularly within the context of the Gecko browser. Their work involved adding new features, such as description support to the moz-checkbox element, and improving the usability of components like moz-radio-group, moz-card, and panel-item, making them more accessible. They also addressed styling and layout inconsistencies across the UI, including updates to the sidebar components and button styles. The user's contributions resulted in improved accessibility and visual consistency within the user interface.
repositoriesfirefoxmercurialgit-mirrormozilla
TGiles/auto-lighthouse
Aug 2019 - Aug 2022
A utility package for automating lighthouse reporting
Contributions:39 releases, 104 reviews, 122 commits in 3 years
lighthouse-reportssimplecrawlerreportingauditslighthouse
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