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5</style></head> <body class="bg-slate-800 text-slate-200"> <header class="safe-px-4 max-w-site mx-auto flex flex-wrap items-stretch justify-between gap-y-4 py-4 print:hidden"> <div class="flex grow pr-2"> <a class="logo__container" href="/"> <img src="/_astro/logo-on-dark.CZBNbD_N_Z1X3t4k.svg" alt="Tiger Oakes" loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="auto" width="160" height="32" class="-mt-[4px] block"> </a> </div>  <nav class="mx-auto flex flex-wrap items-stretch gap-x-2 gap-y-6"> <a class="accent-block--bottom relative px-2" href="/posts/"> Blog </a><a class="accent-block--bottom relative px-2" href="/projects/"> Projects </a><a class="accent-block--bottom relative px-2" href="/talks/"> Talks </a><h1 class="contents font-sans font-normal tracking-normal"> <a class="accent-block--bottom relative px-2" href="/resume/" aria-current="page"> Resume </a> </h1> </nav> </header> <section id="about" class="safe-px-4 max-w-site mx-auto mt-4 print:hidden"> <h2 class="text-3xl border-b py-1"> About Me </h2> <div class="prose prose-invert"> <p>After growing up with dead zones in Hawaii, I want to make web apps that work offline and load fast. I’ve worked on Progressive Web App support in <a href="/projects/microsoft-edge/">Microsoft Edge</a> and <a href="/projects/mozilla-firefox/">Firefox for Android</a>, and I’m a maintainer for the <a href="/projects/rollup/">Rollup</a> JavaScript bundler. Previously, I worked on web projects for <a href="/projects/google/">Google Chrome</a> and <a href="/projects/yelp/">Yelp</a>.</p>
6<p>Some of my side <a href="/projects/">projects</a> have been featured in <a href="https://gabbard.house.gov/news/press-releases/rep-tulsi-gabbard-presents-congressional-awards-young-leaders-hawai-i-s-second">Washington, DC</a>

6 and outlets such as <a href="https://css-tricks.com/maskable-icons-android-adaptive-icons-for-your-pwa/">CSS Tricks</a>, <a href="https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/12/nic79#maskable-icons">Google Developers</a>, <a href="https://web.dev/maskable-icon-audit/">web.dev</a>, the <a href="/featured-in/star-advertiser/">Star-Advertiser</a> and <a href="http://www.bytemarkscafe.org/2015/04/29/episode-348-sounding-rockets-apr-29-2015/">Hawai’i Public Radio</a>. I also speak at conferences like <a href="https://2020.cascadiajs.com/speakers/tiger-oakes">CascadiaJS</a> and <a href="https://2022.jsconfbp.com/speakers/tiger-oakes">JSConf Budapest</a>.</p>
7<p>I started programming in secondary school and enjoyed it so much I’m still doing it! In my spare time, I perform improv and search for geocaches with <a href="https://daphneliu.com">my partner</a>.</p>
8<p>Below is my resume, and I hope you enjoy exploring my site. If you’d like to get in touch or if you have questions about my work, don’t hesitate to <a href="/#contact">contact me</a>.</p> </div> </section> <div class="safe-px-4 max-w-site mx-auto mt-8 print:hidden"> <h2 class="text-3xl border-b py-1 mb-4"> Resume </h2> <div class="text-center"> <a href="pdf/Tiger_Oakes_resume_-_October_2024.pdf" class="button relative shadow-sm text-center whitespace-nowrap px-6 py-2 inline-block bg-[#cd372d] text-xl">
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10</a> </div> </div> <main class="_resume_1rga8_1 resume mx-auto bg-white"><header><h1 class="_title_1rga8_20">Tiger Oakes</h1><ul><li class="_contactItem_1rga8_26 inline">Seattle, WA (US Citizen)</li><li class="_contactItem_1rga8_26 inline"><a href="https://github.com/NotWoods">github.com/NotWoods</a></li><li class="_contactItem_1rga8_26 inline"><a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#61020e0f150002152115080604130e000a04124f020e0c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="65060a0b1104061125110c0200170a040e00164b060a08">[email&#160;protected]</span></a></li><li class="_contactItem_1rga8_26 inline"><a href="tel:+1-253-778-6251">253-778-6251</a></li></ul><p class="_summary_1rga8_33 italic">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.</p></header><h2 class="_sectionHeader_1rga8_37 border-b border-orange-500 font-bold">Technologies and Languages</h2><ul class="_experienceHighlights_1rga8_52 clear-right list-[square]"><li>TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Kotlin, Java, C#, Python</li><li>React, Node.js, Android, AWS, SQL, Deno</li><li>Data structures and algorithms, API design, engineering best practices, unit testing</li></ul><h2 class="_sectionHeader_1rga8_37 border-b border-orange-500 font-bold">Experience</h2><time datetime="2023-08-09/P1Y" class="float-right ml-4 font-bold">Aug 2023 — Present</time><h3 class="_experienceTitle_1rga8_46"><a href="https://loop.microsoft.com/" class="font-bold">Microsoft</a>, <span>Senior Software Engineer - Microsoft Loop</span></h3><ul class="_experienceHighlights_1rga8_52 clear-right list-[square]"><li>Led team of 6 to re-architect web product experience, resulting in tripled user engagement.</li><li>Coached 80+ engineers, wrote documentation, gave tech talks to significantly raise quality of testing, performance, &amp; accessibility in high-traffic, high-scale web application.</li><li>Reduced thousands of developer man-hours by writing detailed tech specs and clear designs ahead of time.</li><li>Shipped multiple Copilot AI apps in just 2 months by rapidly prototyping and guiding peers on JS, React, CSS needs.</li></ul><time datetime="2022-09-09/2023-08-09" class="float-right ml-4 font-bold">2022 — 2023</time><h3 class="_experienceTitle_1rga8_46"><a class="font-bold">Microsoft</a>, <span>Software Engineer II</span></h3><ul class="_experienceHighlights_1rga8_52 clear-right list-[square]"><li>Unblocked 5 features now used by millions of users by inventing virtualization system for thousands of pages.</li><li>Created stronger automated testing culture by building better testing tools, documentation, &amp; improving peer review processes.</li><li>Reduced bugs in design to engineering handoff by creating new Figma token libraries and internal tools for designers.</li></ul><time datetime="2021-08-09/2022-09-09" class="float-right ml-4 font-bold">2021 — 2022</time><h3 class="_experienceTitle_1rga8_46"><a class="font-bold">Microsoft</a>

10, <span>Software Engineer</span></h3><ul class="_experienceHighlights_1rga8_52 clear-right list-[square]"><li>Doubled rendering performance company-wide by leading design language &amp; UI framework migration process with design, product, and engineering partners in 3 orgs and multiple teams.</li><li>Caught and prevented hundreds of bugs in 5,000+ files by introducing and implementing automated tooling.</li></ul><time datetime="2019-05-14/2020-08-30" class="float-right ml-4 font-bold">2019 — 2020</time><h3 class="_experienceTitle_1rga8_46"><a href="https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android" class="font-bold">Mozilla</a>, <span>Android Engineer - Firefox</span></h3><ul class="_experienceHighlights_1rga8_52 clear-right list-[square]"><li>Built and shipped brand new web browser in Kotlin to 100M+ users on <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox">Google Play Store</a>.</li><li>Partnered with engineers at Google, Intel, and Apple to add maskable icon support to Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.</li><li>Featured Firefox in front of hundreds at Chrome Dev Summit 2019 keynote by adding Trusted Web Activity support.</li><li>Set web, Android, and iOS interaction standards as World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Invited Expert.</li><li>Onboarded 5K+ developers onto Compose UI by writing React to Compose dictionary docs.</li></ul><time datetime="2018-05-07/2018-07-27" class="float-right ml-4 font-bold">2018 — 2018</time><h3 class="_experienceTitle_1rga8_46"><a href="https://chrome-supersize.firebaseapp.com/" class="font-bold">Google</a>

10, <span>Android Engineering Intern - Chrome for Android</span></h3><ul class="_experienceHighlights_1rga8_52 clear-right list-[square]"><li>Increased new user retention and saved 100+ KB by building internal tool to analyze millions of Java APK methods.</li><li>Prevented significant release schedule delays by identifying Java resource limits that were nearly exceeded.</li></ul><time datetime="2017-08-27/2017-12-17" class="float-right ml-4 font-bold">2017 — 2017</time><h3 class="_experienceTitle_1rga8_46"><a href="https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Handyman+Services" class="font-bold">Yelp</a>, <span>Fullstack Engineer Intern</span></h3><h2 class="_sectionHeader_1rga8_37 border-b border-orange-500 font-bold">Community Projects</h2><h3 class="_experienceTitle_1rga8_46"><a class="font-bold">Open Source</a></h3><ul class="_experienceHighlights_1rga8_52 clear-right list-[square]"><li>Built <a href="https://maskable.app">Maskable.app</a>, industry standard tool recommended by Google &amp; CSS Tricks, used 11,000+ times/month.</li><li>Automatically stopped common bugs for 32M+ engineers/week by writing linter rules, such as in <a href="https://typescript-eslint.io/">typescript-eslint</a>.</li><li>Made it easier to ship Android apps in <a href="https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/bubblewrap">Google Bubblewrap</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.pwabuilder.com/">Microsoft PWABuilder</a>, used 2,000+ times/month.</li><li>Produced <a href="https://hawaiibusplus.com/">Big Island Buses</a> offline web app with County of Hawai'i, which won Congressional App Challenge 2014.</li></ul><h3 class="_experienceTitle_1rga8_46"><a class="font-bold">Speaking and Writing</a></h3><ul class="_experienceHighlights_1rga8_52 clear-right list-[square]"><li>Speaker at <a href="https://2022.jsconfbp.com/speakers/tiger-oakes/">JSConf Budapest</a>, <a href="https://gitnation.com/contents/the-art-of-ignoring-best-practices-for-react-performance">React Summit</a>, <a href="https://2022.cascadiajs.com/speakers/tiger-oakes">CascadiaJS</a>, and HalfStack conferences with thousands of attendees.</li><li>Wrote articles for MDN, <a href="https://web.dev/articles/maskable-icon">Google web.dev</a>, and <a href="https://css-tricks.com/the-thinking-behind-simplifying-event-handlers/">CSS Tricks</a> – the biggest frontend resources with audience of 10,000+.</li><li>Authored <a href="https://notwoods.github.io/mockk-guidebook/">guidebook on MockK testing library</a> for Kotlin and Android, with 20,000+ views/month.</li><li>Wrote <a href="https://tigeroakes.com/posts/react-to-compose-dictionary/">React to Jetpack Compose Dictionary</a>, resource recommended by Android team to new developers.</li><li>Mentoring new software developers through volunteering at Ada Developers Academy.</li></ul><h2 class="_sectionHeader_1rga8_37 border-b border-orange-500 font-bold">Education</h2><time datetime="2015-09-15/2021-05-25" class="float-right ml-4 font-bold">2015 — 2021</time><h3 class="_experienceTitle_1rga8_46"><a class="font-bold">University of British Columbia</a>, <span>Bachelor of Science in Computer Science</span></h3><ul class="_experienceHighlights_1rga8_52 clear-right list-[square]"><li>Worked at 5 software engineering internships through Canada co-op program.</li></ul></main> <footer class="m-8 flex flex-wrap justify-center print:hidden"> <a class="accent-block--bottom relative mx-2 my-4 leading-6" href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b0d3dfdec4d1d3c4f0c4d9d7d5c2dfd1dbd5c39ed3dfdd">contact<wbr>@tigeroakes.com</a> <div class="flex"> <a class="accent-block--bottom relative mx-2 my-4" title="GitHub" href="https://github.com/NotWoods"> <img class="block" width="24" height="24" alt="GitHub" src="/contact/github.svg" loading="lazy"> </a><a class="accent-block--bottom relative mx-2 my-4" title="LinkedIn" href="https://linkedin.com/in/tigeroakes"> <img class="block" width="24" height="24" alt="LinkedIn" src="/contact/linkedin.svg" loading="lazy"> </a><a class="accent-block--bottom relative mx-2 my-4" title="Bluesky" href="https://bsky.app/profile/notwoods.bsky.social"> <img class="block" width="24" height="24" alt="Bluesky" src="/contact/bluesky.svg" loading="lazy"> </a><a class="accent-block--bottom relative mx-2 my-4" title="Mastodon" href="https://hachyderm.io/@notwoods"> <img class="block" width="24" height="24" alt="Mastodon" src="/contact/mastodon.svg" loading="lazy"> </a> </div> </footer>

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