Francisco Magdaleno
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancisco Magdaleno is a Senior Software Engineer in San Jose with 11 years of experience building cross-platform client software and mobile features at Google, DeepMind, Yahoo and earlier startups. He has deep Flutter and macOS expertise—contributing notable platform support and UX improvements to high-profile projects such as the Flutter engine and flutter-desktop-embedding, including clipboard, key-event handling, and macOS plugin integrations. Comfortable across full-stack and mobile domains, he moves between Swift, native APIs and cross-platform frameworks to expand platform reach and polish user-facing behavior. A former founder and early-stage builder, he pairs startup pragmatism with Google-scale engineering discipline, often addressing subtle UI and DPI issues that improve real-world usability.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor´s in Computer Science, Web Commerce, Bachelor´s in Computer Science, Web Commerce at UAG Campus Villahermosa
Github Skills (24)
objective-c10
c-language10
multiplatform10
flutter-plugin10
flutter-apps10
glfw10
plugin-development10
cross-platform10
gtk10
clip10
swift10
macos10
clipboard10
flutter-game10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
flutter/plugins
Dec 2019 - Apr 2020
Plugins for Flutter maintained by the Flutter team
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:89 commits, 75 PRs, 31 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Francisco primarily contributed to adding macOS support for various Flutter plugins within the `flutter/plugins` repository. Their work included implementing macOS-specific implementations for plugins like `e2e`, `connectivity`, `path_provider`, and `url_launcher`, as well as creating example applications for demonstration. These changes involved writing Swift code for macOS integration, updating build files, and ensuring compatibility with the Flutter framework on the macOS platform. This demonstrates a focus on expanding the platform support for existing Flutter plugins.
dartandroidpluginflutter-pluginios
google/flutter-desktop-embedding
Sep 2018 - Apr 2020
Experimental plugins for Flutter for Desktop
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 45 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Francisco primarily focused on enhancing the Flutter desktop embedding project, adding functionality to the Linux platform. Their work includes creating a floating menubar, adding key event handling for text inputs, and integrating an opacity slider for the color panel. They addressed UI-related concerns, such as making the UI more responsive on higher DPI monitors and implementing actions such as line breaks, demonstrating a focus on improving the user experience.
flutterlinuxflutter-desktopdesktop
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