I'm the rendering lead for Chrome, and know quite a lot about how it works. I also recently wrote a series of articles about the new rendering architecture of Chromium, see here:
Pavel is a professor at the University of Utah and has extensively studied CSS from an academic point of view. He also has a lot of experience teaching the material and making it accessible to students.
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I'm the rendering lead for Chrome, and know quite a lot about how it works. I also recently wrote a series of articles about the new rendering architecture of Chromium, see here:
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/renderingng/
Pavel is a professor at the University of Utah and has extensively studied CSS from an academic point of view. He also has a lot of experience teaching the material and making it accessible to students.
https://mobile.twitter.com/chrishtr says "Rendering lead for Chrome", so at least one of the authors seems to do this professionally.
More about his team’s work: https://www.chromium.org/teams/rendering