Eric Seidel
Founder at Shorebird
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Seidel is a seasoned software leader and founder with 16 years of experience building developer platforms and cross-platform tooling, currently running Shorebird to make Flutter the enterprise default. He previously scaled Flutter and Dart teams at Google, growing Flutter into a leading cross-platform framework and supporting partnerships with major global companies. Eric’s deep roots in browser engineering include founding Google’s WebKit and Blink efforts and hands-on contributions to WebKit/Blink/Chromium performance and standards. He blends product-driven execution with engineering craft—rewriting core components like Chrome’s HTML parser and moving large projects to robust CI workflows. An active contributor to embedded WebKit front-end work, he combines low-level systems experience with modern multi-platform developer experience. Based in Menlo Park with a BA in Mathematics, he’s equally likely to be found hiking long trails as iterating on developer tooling.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA Mathematics, BA Mathematics at Lawrence University
Github Skills (9)
webkit10
cocoa10
ui-components9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
user-interface9
uid9
sys5
embedded5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
WebPlatformForEmbedded/WPEWebKit
Jun 2010 - Aug 2022
WPE WebKit port (downstream)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5001 commits in 12 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Eric appears to be involved in building and maintaining the user interface elements of a WebKit port targeting embedded systems. The commits primarily revolve around reverting code changes that introduced new features related to managed notifications and WebPushd, with an emphasis on Cocoa UI components. The changes suggest an area of focus is maintaining the existing functionality of the UI components.
wpedownstreamwebkit
AlexsanderDamaceno/WebKit
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.
Contributions:60 pushes in 8 months
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