Kyle Finlinson
Software Engineer at Space Dynamics Laboratory
Logan, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Finlinson is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building developer tools, mobile apps, and infrastructure across companies from Google to Space Dynamics Laboratory. He has strong Flutter and Android expertise—contributing Android fixes and tests to the high-profile flutter/plugins video_player plugin to improve real-world playback behavior. Kyle’s background includes improving internal developer workflows at Google and leading engineering efforts as a CTO and Flutter engineer, demonstrating both hands-on coding and technical leadership. He holds a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from Utah State University and brings a pragmatic, test-driven approach informed by experience across startups, large tech, and government-affiliated engineering. Notably, his career shows a pattern of stepping into diverse roles quickly—shipping production plugins, tooling, and test automation while mentoring teams.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Utah State UniversityAssociate of Science (A.S.), Mathematics, Associate of Science (A.S.), Mathematics at Snow College
Github Skills (9)
testing10
flutter10
flutter-game10
android-sdk10
dart10
video-player10
android10
flutter-apps10
exoplayer9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
flutter/plugins
Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
Plugins for Flutter maintained by the Flutter team
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:40 reviews, 5 commits, 13 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the `video_player` plugin, focusing on Android-specific implementations. Their work included fixing video rotation issues for landscapeRight recordings, ensuring the `seekTo` method wasn't called before initialization, and improving video pausing behavior. The commits also involved adding tests for Android, ensuring the plugin's proper function. These changes aimed to enhance the video playback experience on Android devices.
dartandroidpluginflutter-pluginios
KyleFin/plugins
Mar 2021 - Jun 2022
Plugins for Flutter maintained by the Flutter team
Contributions:2 PRs, 58 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 2 months
flutterflutter-pluginbackground-servicedart
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