About

Janicklas Ralph James is a highly skilled software engineer currently working at Google as a Frontend Engineer in the Google Chrome team. He has over 9 years of experience building complex and scalable web applications. His expertise lies in product development, frontend infrastructure, and web performance. At Google, Janicklas is an Engineer on the Google Chrome’s Aurora team, working with open web source frameworks such as NextJS, Nuxt, and Angular to add key features that help improve Core Web Vital scores. He has designed and built features that optimized Font, CSS, and Script loading in the NextJS framework, improving Core Web Vitals of NextJS sites. Janicklas has also worked extensively with cross-functional teams to successfully deliver and drive adoption of these features. Janicklas has a strong expertise in web performance and has worked with multiple partners to deep trace their websites and advise them on improving performance and usability scores. Prior to his current role at Google, Janicklas worked as a Software Engineering (UI) Intern at LinkedIn where he built reusable components inside the LinkedIn and Ember framework. He also created different variants of the website to test user engagement for a specific segment of users that were largely inactive or dormant. Janicklas integrated A/B testing and analytics to help the team measure the effect of each variant. As a Senior Software Engineer at Treebo, Janicklas built a lightweight and highly performant Progressive Web Application with a TTFP of 800 ms on a standard slow mobile network. The architecture and build system of the PWA was appreciated by the Google Chrome team and was featured in Google I/O 2017. He also overhauled Treebo's consumer desktop website, re-writing it from a Django-monolith to a Single page application, using an Isomorphic architecture. Janicklas developed an A/B infrastructure for the consumer applications, enabling the team to write an API-driven A/B testable UI. Janicklas holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University at Buffalo, where he graduated in 2019, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from PES, where he graduated in 2013. His tech stack includes Software Engineering, Web, Frontend, UI, Test, Infra, AngularJS, Mobile, and iOS. Janicklas has 6.78 years of relevant experience in the field of software engineering.