Maksim Lin is a Melbourne-based freelance software developer and owner with 16 years of experience across the entire Android stack, from custom OS work to consumer apps on Google Play. He now focuses on high-quality cross-platform mobile apps using Flutter and is recognised as a Flutter GDE and active open-source contributor. Maksim combines hands-on engineering with systems-level skills—having worked as developer, tester and sysadmin—on projects ranging from telco web platforms to digital signage for major art institutions. He contributes to notable projects like the freezed codegen library (test automation) and enhanced debugging and media features in Jasonette Android, showing a practical bent for improving developer tooling and reliability. A regular speaker and co-organiser of Melbourne GDG and Flutter Melbourne, he blends community leadership with a penchant for prototyping embedded systems and designing experience-driven REST APIs.
Contributions:8 commits, 12 PRs, 63 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Maksim focused on enhancing the Jasonette Android application by implementing debugging tools and features. They added Stetho for network and UI debugging in debug builds. Further improvements included implementing Stetho console logging and updating the logging tree. Additionally, the user added functionality to handle map pin actions and integrated a new audio recording library, improving the app's capabilities.
Code generation for immutable classes that has a simple syntax/API without compromising on the features.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 22 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Maksim focused on testing the `freezed` code generation library, demonstrating an understanding of the library's functionalities. The contributions include writing tests for handling generics with codegen classes and also addressing the related issues with generics and dynamic types. Furthermore, the user also tweaked test naming conventions within existing test files.
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Maksim Lin - Freelance Software Developer & Owner at Manichord