Ian Mckellar
Staff Software Engineer at Google
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Mckellar is a Staff Software Engineer with 18 years of experience building systems and web technologies across startups, open-source projects, and large-scale product teams. He has deep systems and platform expertise—from Mozilla platform work (XPCOM/XUL) and GNOME VFS to connectivity, Bluetooth, and audio on Google Glass—and currently contributes to core infrastructure like the Flutter engine with Fuchsia integration. Comfortable across client and server stacks, he’s led API and platform efforts (Rdio) and shipped cross-platform software at scale, blending pragmatic engineering with protocol and debugging tooling. Based in California, Ian pairs a long history in open source with production-grade systems engineering at Google, often tackling low-level integration and refactoring that quietly improve developer and user experiences.
18 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BCM Computer Science, BCM Computer Science at The University of Western AustraliaSouth Fremantle Senior High School
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
fuchsia10
dart10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
cplus10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
flutter/engine
Aug 2015 - Nov 2019
The Flutter engine
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 21 commits, 49 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the Flutter engine, specifically focusing on the Fuchsia platform integration. Their work included adding debugging support, updating interfaces related to URL requests and responses, and refactoring code. They also made several commits involving the handling of process names and the integration of newer Dart FIDL bindings.
flutterflutter-enginec-plus-plus
ianloic/searchery
Apr 2008 - Nov 2008
Contributions:157 commits in 6 months
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