I’m joining the Chrome Developer Relations team at Google

Good news everyone!

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Sharing my passion for the web (CSS specifically) is something that gives me joy. Writing technical articles, speaking at meetups and conferences, tweeting and retweeting useful demos/links/snippets, running workshops, … — all are things that I love to do.

Up until now this always has been an “after hours” type of thing for me, taking up a lot of my spare time. So it should be no surprise that I didn’t hesitate for a moment when I caught wind of this position. Being able to do what I love — advocating for the web — as my main job is a dream come true.

Oh, you betcha I’m adjusting accordingly!

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My background as a College Lecturer will definitely come in handy here. Thanks to this past work experience, along with my current experience as a public speaker at meetups and conferences, I’m already familiar with creating courses and giving technical talks to audiences both big and small. As a Chrome DevRel Engineer, I can continue down this path and further polish these skills along the way.

Another continuation of things I’m already doing — and which soon will become part of my job — is writing technical articles, creating demos, experimenting with new CSS features, participating in CSS WG discussions, and filing bugs at the various Issue Trackers — only to name a few of my future tasks.

One of the new tasks that I’m really looking forward to is attending and participating in the weekly CSS WG Telecon. I don’t want to get ahead of things here, but you can bet on it that I’ll put work into the potential changes coming to Scroll-Linked Animations.

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I intend to keep on publishing stuff here on bram.us, but can imagine that some posts — mainly about new CSS features — may end up on web.dev (or the like) instead. After all, I’d be writing those posts “on the job” then, instead of in my spare time now.

One side-effect of joining Google is that I will be shutting down my freelance business. I didn’t really ever plan on doing so — things are going great after all — but joining Una’s team is an opportunity I can’t turn down. As a result, I’m currently wrapping things up with my current clients. I hereby would like to thank them (along with my former clients) for the trust they’ve put in me over the past 15 years.

And oh, in case you’re wondering: me and a family will be staying in Belgium, as it’s a remote position. No changes there.

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I’m very excited to join, and you can expect to hear more from me soon. First up: go through the (remote) onboarding process and whatnot 🙂

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