Harry Terkelsen
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolHarry Terkelsen is a software engineer with 13 years of experience at Google focused on Flutter for Web, specializing in front-end and full-stack work that improves text rendering, CanvasKit integration, and cross-platform plugin interfaces. He has made notable contributions to high-profile open-source projects like flutter/flutter, flutter/engine, and Skia—work that improved web text fidelity, paragraph bindings, and CanvasKit performance. Comfortable across UI, rendering, and platform-interface layers, he combines careful low-level fixes (font quoting, memory management) with larger API enhancements and testing/migration efforts. A Cornell-educated engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he brings deep product-focused engineering to browser and cross-platform graphics challenges.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Cornell University
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Github Skills (39)
javascript10
flutter-apps10
ui-components10
testing10
plugin-development10
component-development10
css10
canvas-kit10
skia10
text-rendering10
html10
flutter-game10
web-development10
dart10
firebase10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
flutter/engine
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
The Flutter engine
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:452 reviews, 152 commits, 391 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Harry primarily focused on implementing and modifying UI components within the Flutter engine, specifically related to text rendering and display in web environments. Their contributions included quoting font family names in CSS, integrating the Ahem font, and ensuring correct display of text with various properties like weight, style, and height. These changes aimed to improve the fidelity and accuracy of text rendering in the web-based Flutter engine. Additionally, they addressed layout and rendering issues.
flutterflutter-enginec-plus-plus
angulardart/angular
Dec 2016 - May 2018
Fast and productive web framework provided by Dart
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:91 commits, 1 PR, 22 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Harry primarily contributed to the development of Angular Dart components and features, focusing on the implementation of new elements and modifications to existing ones. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving the display and behavior of the UI elements, as well as optimizing the template rendering logic. The user's work involved modifying both the code structure and the templates to enhance the overall user experience.
dartframeworkweb-frameworkproductive
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