Tiger Oakes
Client-side performance focused software engineer offering 12+ years of experience leading multiple product launches, building 3 web browsers, hundreds of open-source projects, and cross-browser compatible W3C standards.
Technologies and Languages
- TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Kotlin, Java, C#, Python
- React, Node.js, Android, AWS, SQL, Deno
- Data structures and algorithms, API design, engineering best practices, unit testing
Experience
Microsoft, Senior Software Engineer - Microsoft Loop
- Led team of 6 to re-architect web product experience, resulting in tripled user engagement.
- Coached 80+ engineers, wrote documentation, gave tech talks to significantly raise quality of testing, performance, & accessibility in high-traffic, high-scale web application.
- Reduced thousands of developer man-hours by writing detailed tech specs and clear designs ahead of time.
- Shipped multiple Copilot AI apps in just 2 months by guiding team on Web, JavaScript, React, CSS needs.
Microsoft, Software Engineer II
- Unblocked 5 features now used by millions of users by inventing virtualization system for thousands of pages.
- Created stronger testing culture by building better testing tools, documentation, & improving peer review processes.
- Reduced bugs in design to engineering handoff by creating new Figma token libraries and internal tools for designers.
Microsoft, Software Engineer
- Doubled rendering performance company-wide by leading design language & UI framework migration process with design, product, and engineering partners in 3 orgs and multiple teams.
- Caught and prevented hundreds of bugs in 5,000+ files by introducing and implementing automated tooling.
Mozilla, Android Engineer - Firefox
- Built and shipped brand new web browser in Kotlin to 100M+ users on Google Play Store.
- Partnered with engineers at Google, Intel, and Apple to add maskable icon support to Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.
- Featured Firefox in front of hundreds at Chrome Dev Summit 2019 keynote by adding Trusted Web Activity support.
- Set web, Android, and iOS interaction standards as World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Invited Expert.
- Onboarded 5K+ developers onto Compose UI by writing React to Compose dictionary docs.
Google, Android Engineering Intern - Chrome for Android
- Increased new user retention and saved 100+ KB by building internal tool to analyze millions of Java APK methods.
- Prevented significant release schedule delays by identifying Java resource limits that were nearly exceeded.
Yelp, Fullstack Engineer Intern
Community Projects
Open Source
- Built Maskable.app, industry standard tool recommended by Google & CSS Tricks, used 11,000+ times/month.
- Automatically stopped common bugs for 32M+ engineers/week by writing linter rules, such as in typescript-eslint.
- Made it easier to ship Android apps in Google Bubblewrap & Microsoft PWABuilder, used 2,000+ times/month.
- Produced Big Island Buses offline web app with County of Hawai'i, which won Congressional App Challenge 2014.
Speaking and Writing
- Speaker at JSConf Budapest, React Summit, CascadiaJS, and HalfStack conferences with thousands of attendees.
- Wrote articles for MDN, Google web.dev, and CSS Tricks – the biggest frontend resources with audience of 10,000+.
- Authored guidebook on MockK testing library for Kotlin and Android, with 20,000+ views/month.
- Wrote React to Jetpack Compose Dictionary, resource recommended by Android team to new developers.
- Mentoring new software developers through volunteering at Ada Developers Academy.
Education
University of British Columbia, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
- Worked at 5 software engineering internships through Canada co-op program