Jacob Richman
Staff Tech Lead Manager at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Richman is a Staff Tech Lead Manager in Seattle with 14 years of software engineering experience, currently leading Google's Gemini CLI efforts after steering Colab Frontend and the developer experience for Dart and Flutter. He blends hands-on front-end craftsmanship—evidenced by UI and performance contributions to the high-profile Flutter DevTools repo—with people leadership, driving launches like AI-first Colab. Jacob has a long track record at Google and earlier at Microsoft, mentoring teams to ship polished developer tools and scalable interfaces. Known for optimizing rendering and reducing unnecessary UI rebuilds, he brings a pragmatic focus on performance and developer productivity.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (9)
user-interface10
flutter-game10
dart10
flutter-apps10
flutter10
ui-design9
page-layout9
ui-components8
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
flutter/devtools
Nov 2018 - Dec 2022
Developer tools for Flutter & Dart
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1478 reviews, 256 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily worked on UI components and layouts within the Flutter DevTools repository. Their contributions focused on porting and adapting data model classes and adding features such as scrollable UI, expanding/collapsing node functionality, and the creation and styling of user interface elements. The user's changes addressed issues such as rendering inconsistencies and improved performance by using more efficient painting techniques and avoiding unnecessary UI rebuilds. They also made improvements to improve code style, including formatting.
dartflutter
google-gemini/gemini-cli
Jun 2025 - Jun 2026
An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.
Contributions:1543 reviews, 310 PRs, 435 pushes in 1 year
ai-agentgeminigemini-apiaiai-agents
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