Barry Pollard: Web Performance Developer Advocate

Expect a glimpse into a future where the web becomes more dynamic while staying firmly rooted in HTML, HTTP, and browser-native capabilities.

Barry Pollard works in the Chrome Developer Relations team specialising in web performance. He spends his days working on Core Web Vitals and tooling such as Chrome DevTools, PageSpeed Insights, the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX), and maintaining the web-vitals JavaScript library. He's also a member of the W3C Web Performance Working Group. He is one of the maintainers of the HTTP Archive and its annual Web Almanac publication. He's the author of HTTP/2 in Action from Manning Publications. He frequently finds people who are wrong on the internet and this keeps him up at night. He also can't handle unread notifications on his phone so don't message him or he will answer you...