Jordan Bayles
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJordan Bayles is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently working at Google on Chrome's Chromecast/Open Screen ecosystem from Portland, Oregon. He specializes in media streaming, browser internals, and backend engineering, with notable contributions to Chromium's media/cast components and Web Platform Tests to ensure robust handling of new media capture APIs. Jordan maintains and improves cross‑project C++ tooling like JsonCpp, demonstrating a commitment to long‑term maintainability and build/test automation. His background includes DevTools work at Microsoft and systems-focused internships at Garmin, giving him a strong foundation in C/C++, Python, and performance-sensitive engineering. He blends production-grade engineering with active open-source stewardship, and often surfaces subtle fixes—like null encoded frame handling and parser edge cases—that prevent real-world failures.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics Minor, BSc, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics Minor at Oregon State University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
debugging10
json10
javascript10
c-language10
video-encoding10
testing10
chromium10
browser10
travis-ci10
web-standards10
build-automation10
cprogramming-language10
streaming10
test-automation10
clang-format9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
open-source-parsers/jsoncpp
Jun 2019 - Dec 2020
A C++ library for interacting with JSON.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:9 releases, 16 reviews, 50 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily contributed to improving the library's functionality and maintainability. Their work involved fixing a bug related to exception handling when the `JSON_USE_EXCEPTION` flag is disabled. They also implemented and maintained the build process and testing environment, updating Travis CI scripts and fixing a fuzzer error. Additionally, they improved the performance of comment parsing and fixed various formatting and definition issues.
cpp
chromium/chromium
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily worked on the Chromium project, specifically within the media/cast sub-component, focusing on optimizing and fixing issues related to video streaming. Their commits involved refactoring and cleaning up performance overlay code, addressing crashes related to video encoder APIs and the VPX quantizer parser. Additionally, the user contributed to cleanup efforts of the remoting sink metadata and added test coverage for ensuring correct handling of null encoded frames, demonstrating an understanding of the system's encoding and streaming pipeline.
chromiumbrowser
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