Cameron Mcloughlin
Software Engineer at Zed Industries
United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarCameron Mcloughlin is a software engineer with eight years' experience building production systems in Rust, Flutter and full-stack environments across startups and scaleups in the UK. He’s currently at Zed Industries and leads the Ditto Flutter SDK, having previously driven Rust backend work at MLabs and engineered cross-platform apps and accessibility practices at Glean. A regular open-source contributor, Cameron has improved developer tooling in high-profile Rust projects like rust-analyzer and proptest by enhancing completion features, numeric samplers and const-generic support. He combines hands-on systems-level Rust expertise with mobile-first product experience, and is comfortable moving between compiler-adjacent tooling and shipped Flutter apps. Outside work he climbs rocks, a hobby that mirrors his methodical, risk-aware approach to engineering.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (14)
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
rust-analyzer10
rust10
server10
data-structure10
property-testing10
parallel-arrays9
typed-array9
multidimensional-arrays9
testing9
arrayobject9
dynamic-array9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
proptest-rs/proptest
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Hypothesis-like property testing for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 25 commits, 15 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Cameron primarily contributed to the `proptest-rs/proptest` repository, a property testing framework for Rust. Their work involved implementing arbitrary implementations for non-zero types and adding support for const generic arrays. They also updated the code to use the `result` type and bumped a dependency version, indicating they were involved in core library maintenance and enhancements. Furthermore, the user refactored float samplers to prevent overflow and implemented unit tests for testing the generated float samples.
rusttestingproperty-testing
rust-lang/rust-analyzer
Jan 2022 - Mar 2023
A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 PRs, 3 comments, 6 issues in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Cameron primarily contributed to the `rust-analyzer` project by modifying and extending code completion features within the `ide_completion` crate, particularly focusing on function argument suggestions. They fixed type errors and removed unnecessary code elements. Additionally, they added new assist features related to arithmetic operations, including saturating, wrapping, and checked operations, impacting the project's code refactoring capabilities.
rustlsp-servercompileridefront-end
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