Adil Hanney
Software Engineer
Blackburn, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdil Hanney is a software engineer with eight years' experience building mobile and desktop apps, specialising in Flutter front-ends and full-stack contributions to open-source projects like GitHub Desktop forks and the Flutter Quill editor. A Computer Science and Mathematics graduate from the University of Manchester, he developed an open-source app that attracted ~10,000 users and has hands-on experience improving UX, resolving merge conflicts, and conducting both sides of code reviews. At Nuwa he built a Bluetooth smart-pen app, cut load times by 40% via a bespoke rendering pipeline and LODs, and established CI/CD and automated testing to tame flaky macOS tests. Comfortable working across teams, he also contributes Linux editor support and UI scaling fixes to prominent repos, showing a mix of practical performance optimisation and attention to cross-platform developer tooling.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Mathematics, 2:1, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Mathematics, 2:1 at The University of ManchesterGCSE, Computer Science, GCSE, Computer Science at St Wilfrid's Church of England AcademyA-level, Computer Science, A*A*A*A*, A-level, Computer Science, A*A*A*A* at Cardinal Newman College Preston
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Github Skills (35)
javascript10
electron10
flutter-apps10
quill10
typescript10
linux10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
flutter-game10
dart10
rich-text-editor10
flutter10
scripting9
editor9
git9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
singerdmx/flutter-quill
Dec 2022 - Jul 2024
Rich text editor for Flutter
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 13 PRs, 46 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Adil primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Flutter Quill rich text editor. Their commits demonstrate work on the toolbar functionality, including the vertical toolbar layout, divider implementation, and button integration for features like header styles, alignment, and lists. The user also addressed selection handling and context menu integration, enhancing the overall user interface and experience within the editor. The commits included adjusting the UI to handle scaling based on the paragraph font size.
rich-textwysiwyg-editorquill-deltarichtextquilljs
shiftkey/desktop
Feb 2021 - Oct 2024
Fork of GitHub Desktop to support various Linux distributions
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 PRs, 3 comments, 1 issue in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Adil primarily focused on extending the GitHub Desktop application to support Linux distributions by adding support for various editors and shells. They added paths for different editors like Zed, and Black Box terminal. The user also made minor fixes and updates, including capitalization changes and running a lint fix.
distributionslinuxdesktopgithub-desktoplinux-distributions
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