Paul Irish is an American front-end engineer and a developer advocate for the Google Chrome web browser.

He is an evangelist in web technologies, including JavaScript and CSS.

[1][2][3][4][dubious – discuss] In 2011, he was named Developer of the Year by The Net Awards for his contributions to the web development landscape and his participation in many popular open source projects.

[5] Irish has created, contributed to, or led the development of many front-end web development projects and JavaScript libraries:[6] Irish has created or was a key contributor to many websites in an effort to encourage browser and web developers to move to HTML5:[7]