Patrick Brosset

Lead Edge Web Platform developer ecosystem efforts, focusing on customer listening, interoperability, web standards, and evangelism.

Evangelize Chromium and Edge features to make the web easier to use, through developer documentation, feature announcements on blogs and social media, videos, and talks at conferences.

Drive cross-company web ecosystem initiatives including W3C Docs Community Group, Interop project, The Web We Want, W3C WebDX Community Group, Open Web Docs, FUGU, and others, aligning stakeholders and advancing shared standards goals.

Delivered new Edge DevTools features such as layout debugging and Focus mode, acted on customer feedback, fixed bugs, and improved accessibility. Contributed to the open source Chromium project in close collaboration with the Chrome DevTools team.

I led the Firefox DevTools engineering org, owning strategy, hiring, and execution while shipping major UI and architecture updates, remote debugging, and industry-leading inspection tools (Grid, Flexbox, Fonts, Shapes, Changes, Responsive Design Mode) that influenced other browser vendors and advanced Firefox DevTools.

Led DOM/HTML/CSS debugging in Firefox DevTools with a distributed team, defining the design-tools direction and shipping animation, layout, and CSS debugging features.

Built mission-critical Airport IT apps such as runway sequencing and stand/gate allocation, handling high-volume live data with strong performance. Wrote mostly HTML/CSS/JavaScript and trained the Munich team for two months.

Led the team building the open source Amadeus aria templates UI framework, delivering a fast, reliable foundation for travel-industry single-page apps. Set up team processes and ran day-to-day delivery.

Designed, built, and maintained an internal client/server framework using Java/J2EE and Ajax, and trained other teams to adopt it.

Implemented and maintained key pages of aircanada.com's booking site using JSP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Designed and built CMS-based websites for New Zealand clients, owning customer discovery, page design, and implementation.