Leading the engineering work in Extensions UI in Chrome
Designing and implementing the new Extensions UI features in the Chrome toolbar, which will allow the to see in an easier way their extensions and change their host permissions.
Consistent and effective engagement with non-Eng teammates by consolidating decisions in one document, dividing and assigning the project’s engineering tasks to coordinate the project’s timeline, and reviewing mocks and usability studies, identifying issues and suggesting solutions
Identified and improved extensions UI features (e.g dialogs) to provide a better user experience
Created extension UI test base classes to reduce the difficulty of adding tests for new components, prevent test flakiness for animations in browser tests, and clean and extend the current testing suite.
Implemented and launched the Chrome Storage session API that provides in-memory storage to extensions to store unencrypted sensitive data that needs to be accessed for the duration of the browser session and/or can be computationally-intensive to compute every time the Service Worker starts up.
Independently designed the architecture, planned the timeline and prioritized action items for a multi-quarter project to deliver UI features that increase users’ trust in Chrome by providing an easier way for users to control critical privacy settings in extensions.
Designed and implemented a host permissions manager that stores user-level permissions to block or allow all extensions from running on a site.