Matt Carroll
Summary
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RockstarMatt Carroll is a Palo Alto–based software leader and founder with 10 years of experience specializing in Flutter education, training, and app development. A former member of Google’s Flutter team and ex-Googler, he now leads the global open-source-focused team Flutter Bounty Hunters and runs SuperDeclarative!, delivering hands-on Flutter training and products. His contributions span low-level engine work (keyboard and platform messaging fixes) to polished UI toolkits like Super Editor and Flutter codelabs, reflecting both platform-level depth and UX-driven front-end craft. Comfortable switching between native iOS/Android adjustments and declarative Flutter widgets, he’s known for making rich text editing and nuanced input behaviors reliable across platforms. The blend of engineering at Google and entrepreneurial streak—founding multiple startups—gives him a rare mix of product intuition and deep technical ownership.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
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web-widgets10
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widgets10
flutter-apps10
ui-design10
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front-end-development10
text-rendering10
flutter-game10
dart10
mobile-ui10
flutter10
animation9
user-interface9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Flutter-Bounty-Hunters/super_editor
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
A Flutter toolkit for building document editors and readers
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1834 reviews, 296 commits, 2311 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Matt primarily worked on developing and implementing UI components and features for a Flutter-based document editor. Their contributions focused on creating text editing experiences by implementing features like a selection tool, text formatting controls, and rich text rendering. The user also added and styled new widgets into the user interface.
fluttereditorrich-textrich-text-editor
flutter-team-archive/engine
Jun 2018 - Mar 2020
The Flutter engine
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:2 reviews, 114 commits, 247 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt implemented keyboard action support within the iOS platform, adding support for various keyboard actions like "Done," "Go," and "Search." They modified the FlutterTextInputPlugin to incorporate these new keyboard action types and handle the corresponding actions within the iOS FlutterViewController. The user updated existing implementations on Android and iOS to correctly send platform brightness and contrast to the Flutter framework, adding a new hook to cleanUpFlutterEngine as a symmetry for configureFlutterEngine. Additionally, they fixed a crash related to platform message responses within FlutterJNI.
flutter-enginec-plus-plus
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