Jeffrey Young
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Young is a software engineer with 10 years of experience, currently contributing to ChromeOS and Google Assistant integrations at Google as an L4, bringing strong frontend polish and backend reliability. He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley and an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, with a specialization in machine learning. As Lead Software Engineer at PastureMap, he was the sole backend engineer on a Django/PostgreSQL app, delivering ~2.5x faster first-load performance, data integrity checks, and APIs for herd performance and land productivity estimates from NRCS soil data. Earlier roles at Web.com (Yodle) and Yodle show his breadth across microservices, CI/CD tooling, and frontend/backend development. An active open-source contributor, he has made notable Chromium contributions to ChromeOS UI and accessibility (offline wallpaper, ARIA enhancements), and outside work he is an animal lover and outdoor enthusiast who aims to use software to make the world better.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley
Github Skills (14)
accessibility10
webaccess10
chromium10
javascript10
labeling10
user-interface10
javascripts10
label10
userinterface10
html9
dom-manipulation9
web-components8
css8
web-component8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chromium/chromium
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:58 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey primarily contributed to the Chromium project by fixing UI issues related to the wallpaper subpage in the ChromeOS personalization app. Their work ensured the wallpaper subpage was visible and functional even without a network connection, addressing issues with loading tiles in the iron-list component. Additionally, the user implemented better aria descriptions for thumbnails in the SeaPen images element. Further improvements included displaying an action URL link in the description and providing context for screen readers with the aria-label.
chromiumgithub-mirrorchrome
cwmoo740/pycharm
Jun 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:156 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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