Marcel Duran
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updated Jan 2021
Work Experience
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Google Inc.
Nov 2013 - Present
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Web Performance Engineer @ Search
Jul 2020 - Present
- Desktop Search latency matters.
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Web Performance Engineer @ Ads
Jan 2018 - Jun 2020 (2 years 6 months)
- Responsible for AdWords web desktop client latency, including instrumentation, analysis, and optimization experiments.
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Web Performance Engineer @ YouTube
Nov 2013 - Jan 2018 (4 year 2 months)
- Instrumented YouTube web desktop client for web performance analysis.
- Added several performance metrics to YouTube lifecycle as well as increased accuracy of key metrics and log volumes.
- Automated the process of detecting regression and alerting engineers before pushing to production.
- Worked with w3c web perf group to get bytes related information onto resource timing API.
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Twitter Inc.
May 2012 - Oct 2013 (1 year 6 months)
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YSlow Open Source Project
May 2012 - Present
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Yahoo! Inc.
Sep 2008 - Apr 2012 (3 years 8 months)
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Front End Lead @ Exceptional Performance Team
Nov 2010 - Apr 2012 (1 year 5 months)
- Led YSlow development for several platforms and open source it.
- Evangelized web performance optimization across Yahoo! and beyond.
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Front End Engineer @ Search Team
Oct 2009 - Nov 2010 (1 year 2 months)
- Web development of Yahoo! Search features for international markets.
- Analyzed, proposed and implemented several web performance optimizations.
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Front End Engineer @ Frontpage Team
Sep 2008 - Oct 2009 (1 year 2 months)
- Web development of core features for yahoo.com portals for Latin America.
- Responsible for web performance optimization projects.
Education
- B.S., Computer Science, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2007.
Publications
Conferences
- Uber Destination:Web, Sep 2018
- BrazilJS Conf 2013, Aug 2013
- O’Reilly Velocity Conference 2013, Jun 2013
- O’Reilly Velocity China 2012, Dec 2012
- HighLoad++ Moscow 2012, Oct 2012
- San Francisco & Silicon Valley Web Performance Meetup, Aug 2012
- O’Reilly Velocity Conference 2012, Jun 2012
- O’Reilly Velocity Conference 2011, Jun 2011
- Yahoo! Front End Summit’11, Mar 2011
- O’Reilly Velocity Online Conference 2011, Mar 2011
Side Projects