Adam Harwood
Director Of Engineering at Strange Loop
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Harwood is a Director of Engineering based in Queensland, Australia with 13 years of experience building and leading software teams across startups and large organisations including Amazon and Elastic. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like the Flutter plugins camera implementation—with strategic leadership in roles from Head of Technology to Principal Engineer. Adam specializes in improving developer productivity, continuous delivery and pragmatic architecture to solve hard problems through better human-computer interaction. He has a track record of shipping cross-platform mobile features (concurrent video recording/streaming) and stabilizing integration tests, showing attention to both product and platform quality. Known for fostering devops culture and reducing waste, he bridges engineering execution and organisational change. Trained in computer science at the University of Newcastle, he pairs deep technical craft with a bias for practical, team-focused improvements.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of NewcastleSouthern Cross K-12 School
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Github Skills (21)
ios10
flutter-apps10
plugin10
camera10
android10
flutter-game10
dart10
flutter10
spring-security9
video-recording9
testing8
tomcat6
html6
data-structures6
netbeans6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
flutter/plugins
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Plugins for Flutter maintained by the Flutter team
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:34 reviews, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the camera plugin, focusing on implementing new features and refactoring existing code. Their work included adding the ability to concurrently record and stream video, using the `startVideoCapturing` method. They also addressed platform-specific implementation details and made the `VideoCaptureOptions` accessible to other packages. Additionally, the user fixed integration tests related to streaming video.
dartandroidpluginflutter-pluginios
Formguru/docs
Jan 2022 - Jun 2024
Documentation for Guru
Contributions:2 reviews, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
guru
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