Chase Latta
Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChase Latta is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building polished mobile experiences and deep platform integrations. He started in iOS development and Objective-C, rose through leadership and senior engineering roles at companies like Minted, Twitter, and Google, and now focuses on cross-platform engine and platform work. At Google he has driven Fuchsia-focused improvements to the Flutter framework and engine—bringing AOT support, build-tooling updates, and packaging automation that bridge Dart, native engine code, and CI/CD. His background in physics and early research roles gives him a data-driven, systems-oriented approach to debugging and performance optimization. Known for shipping consumer-facing mobile apps as well as low-level platform tooling, he blends product-facing polish with engine-level engineering depth.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at Metropolitan State University of Denver
Github Skills (25)
c-language10
flutter-apps10
build-system10
cross-platform10
flutter-game10
fuchsia10
dart10
cprogramming-language10
flutter10
python9
devops9
automations8
clang8
api8
automation8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
flutter/engine
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
The Flutter engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:91 reviews, 41 commits, 73 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Chase primarily contributes to the Flutter engine, focusing on Fuchsia-related tasks. Their work includes building and managing Fuchsia artifacts, including dependency management and the packaging of files required for testing and running. They also implemented and maintained build scripts and configurations to adapt the Flutter engine for use with Fuchsia, demonstrating an understanding of build systems and CI/CD workflows. Furthermore, the user updated tooling and components related to Fuchsia, including upgrading toolchains and debugging utilities.
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flutter/flutter
May 2020 - Sep 2021
Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 6 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Chase primarily contributed to the Fuchsia platform integration within the Flutter framework, focusing on both the Dart and engine codebases. Their work involved refactoring code, replacing deprecated functionalities (e.g., `amber_ctl` with `pkgctl`), and adding new features, like the ability to stamp packages with an API level. Additionally, they made improvements to the dart_runner, allowing for AOT builds and passing arguments to the main function. These changes demonstrate a deep understanding of the Flutter engine and its Fuchsia-specific implementations.
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