Mathias Bynens

Web Platform Engineer at Google

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

About

I’m a Staff Software Engineer on the Google Chrome team, leading a team focused on web developer tooling across projects such as Chrome DevTools, Puppeteer, and ChromeDriver. I’m passionate about the Web Platform and have contributed to Web Standards across several standardization bodies, including WHATWG (HTML), TC39 (JavaScript), W3C (WebDriver), UTC (Unicode), and IETF.

Experience

  • Staff Software Engineer at Google
    Jun 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 2 mos

    I am the Tech Lead and Manager of the Developer Productivity team within Chrome DevTools. This team focuses on several key aspects of Chrome’s tooling offering for web developers, with the goal to address common developer pain points: • Browser Automation, including the Chrome DevTools Recorder, Puppeteer, and ChromeDriver. • Design & Accessibility Tooling, including DevTools support for modern CSS Web Platform features.

  • Freelance Web Developer at Qiwi
    Oct 2007 - Dec 2018 · 11 yrs 3 mos

    Front-end coding of websites (HTML, CSS, JS), back-end programming (PHP, MySQL).

  • Developer Relations at Opera Software
    Jan 2014 - Nov 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    As a member of the Opera Developer Relations team I make the web better by working on Dev.Opera, attending/speaking at conferences, keeping community resources up-to-date, contributing to Web standards, and writing browser tests and patches for the Chromium, Blink, and V8 projects.