Presented by

  • Sharon Yang

    Sharon Yang

    Sharon is a software engineer at Igalia, where she's part of the Chromium team. Before that, she worked on various Chromium teams at Google. She is based in the Vancouver area and happens to be a UBC alum. Outside of computers, she enjoys sewing, baking and ultimate frisbee.

Abstract

Igalia is a small, cooperative consulting firm specializing in open source. Google is one of the world's largest publicly traded corporations. Both have teams working on Chromium, a massive open source project. As a new Igalian and former Googler, Sharon gives an insider's take on contributing to Chromium at both organizations.