Emily Fortuna is a Seattle-based actor and technologist with 14 years of experience blending storytelling, developer advocacy, and hands-on software engineering. She’s built production mobile apps in Flutter, contributed to core Dart testing and internationalization libraries, and helped ship interactive demos and Firebase-backed projects—skills she pairs with a talent for crafting educational videos, talks, and articles. At Google she led Flutter developer relations strategy and helped grow the team’s YouTube channel rapidly, and more recently drove advocacy at companies like r2c and Temporal. Comfortable across front-end UI, localization, and full-stack prototypes, she translates complex technical topics into engaging, humorous narratives that teach and connect with diverse audiences.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of Washington
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Linguistics at Rice University
Contributions:59 commits, 16 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Emily primarily contributed to the development of a meme-based chat application. Their work involved the creation of a user interface with Flutter, including a chat screen, image integration and meme creation features. The commits also demonstrate work on the backend, including handling user input and integrating Firebase for real-time messaging.
Respository for the I/O 2019 demo: Become a tech lead, slay bugs, and don't get fired.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:142 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Emily primarily contributed to the frontend development of the application. Their work focused on integrating Firebase authentication, adding UI elements such as a countdown clock, and making improvements to the user interface. They were also responsible for bug fixes and refactoring code, as well as integrating mouseover hover animation and keyboard event handling. They made changes across multiple files which suggests they are familiar with the overall structure of the project.
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