Juan Tugores
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolJuan Tugores is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building NotebookLM at Google and recently part of Google DeepMind. He has a strong front-end and web engineering background, contributing notable improvements to the Flutter project—especially around web focus management, accessibility, and web plugins like url_launcher_web and file_selector. His career spans product-focused roles across Google, Area 120, and startups, where he combined mobile, full-stack, and platform work to ship polished user experiences. Juan pairs an academic foundation in telecommunications and data science with an MS in Computer Science from UT Austin, reflecting both systems and ML literacy. Notably, he has hands-on experience resolving tricky browser-specific behaviors (e.g., Safari URL handling and file selection) that improve cross-platform developer tooling. Based in Mountain View, he blends research-adjacent work at DeepMind with practical engineering that impacts widely used open-source ecosystems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree, Data Science, Postgraduate Degree, Data Science at CIMATTelematics Engineer, Telecommunications, Telematics Engineer, Telecommunications at Universidad del Caribe (MX)Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (35)
accessibility10
javascript10
flutter-apps10
plugin-development10
webpages10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
flutter-game10
web-development10
dart10
flutter10
testing9
c-language9
develop9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
flutter-team-archive/engine
Nov 2023 - Sep 2024
The Flutter engine
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:107 reviews, 29 PRs, 2 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Juan primarily contributed to the Flutter web engine, specifically focusing on implementing and refining view focus management features. Their work involved adding methods to the platform dispatcher for handling focus events and implementing tests to verify these changes. The user addressed issues related to focus transitions and text field behavior within the web environment, including adjusting focus direction detection and addressing focus management issues with text fields. They also worked on implementing the `requestViewFocusChange` method and enabling view focus, improving the overall user experience within Flutter web applications.
flutter-enginec-plus-plus
flutter-team-archive/plugins
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
Plugins for Flutter maintained by the Flutter team
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 6 commits, 11 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Juan primarily contributed to the `url_launcher_web` and `file_selector` packages, which are Flutter plugins for web applications. Their work involved implementing features for the `url_launcher_web` plugin, addressing issues related to launching URLs and handling `mailto` links in different browsers, and integrating the `platform_detect` package. They also contributed to the initial implementation and testing of the `file_selector` plugin. These contributions involved code changes in Dart, web-specific browser interactions, and test setup.
flutterdartpluginandroidios
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