Alexander Biggs
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAlexander Biggs is a software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently based in Mountain View and working at Google. He’s an active contributor to the high-profile Flutter open-source projects, driving the Fuchsia port of the Flutter engine by implementing the ComponentRunner protocol, porting integration tests, and streamlining build and memory-handling processes. Comfortable across the full stack, he combines systems-level C++ and build-tool work with platform integration for Dart and CFv2 component models. Known for quietly improving infrastructure and test reliability, he focuses on pragmatic fixes and cleanups that reduce SDK roll failures and make large builds more robust.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (21)
c-language10
flutter-apps10
cross-platform10
flutter-game10
fuchsia10
dart10
cprogramming-language10
flutter10
mobile-development9
build-system9
app-framework9
web-framework8
webpages8
ios7
android7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
flutter/engine
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
The Flutter engine
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:208 reviews, 68 commits, 126 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the Flutter engine, focusing on the Fuchsia platform. Their work involved adding and modifying CML files for the Dart runner, specifically for CFv2 components. They also implemented the ComponentRunner protocol for the Dart runner, enabling compatibility with CFv2. Furthermore, the user made changes to build scripts and the engine to improve the build process and handle memory pressure.
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flutter/flutter
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 2 commits, 3 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the Fuchsia port of the Flutter engine. Their work focused on implementing the ComponentRunner protocol, enabling compatibility with CFv2 components, and porting over integration tests, including the text-input-test. They also worked on various infrastructural changes such as adding a script to build and copy the artifacts to Fuchsia, and fixing bugs that caused SDK roll failures. Additionally, they made minor improvements, such as code cleanups and fixing typos, improving the project's maintainability.
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