Mouad Debbar
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMouad Debbar is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-quality web experiences and developer tooling, currently helping bring the Flutter framework to the web at Google. He combines deep front-end expertise—demonstrated by contributions to flagship projects like flutter, flutter/engine and Skia—with hands-on full-stack work and platform-level accessibility and text-rendering improvements. Previously he led front-end migrations and cloud teams, shipped major UX features at Facebook and LinkedIn, and mentors engineers across seniority levels. Based in San Francisco, he has a strong track record of improving developer productivity (frameworks and tools) while tackling subtle platform quirks such as text layout, semantics, and keyboard interactions on the web.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Ecole nationale Superieure d'Informatique (ESI)MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of San Francisco
English, Arabic, French
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Github Skills (34)
javascript10
c-language10
flutter-apps10
utf10
css10
webpages10
ui-design10
semantics10
web-content10
webui10
uid10
canvas-kit10
front-end-development10
skia10
unicode10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
flutter-team-archive/engine
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
The Flutter engine
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:934 reviews, 218 commits, 504 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mouad contributed to the Flutter engine by adding a multi-line flag to the semantics API and implementing the text field's action handling, which involved changes to semantics, including code across multiple files like lib/ui/semantics.dart, shell/platform/android/io/flutter/view/AccessibilityBridge.java, and lib/ui/semantics/semantics_node.h. Additionally, they handled new navigation platform messages in the web UI for route updates and applied DOM attributes and styles to text fields. They also worked on handling text-related features like line breaks and text styling for rendering text to the DOM.
flutter-enginec-plus-plus
flutter/packages
Oct 2020 - Apr 2026
A collection of useful packages maintained by the Flutter team
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 9 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mouad focused on implementing and improving the `Link` widget within the Flutter web environment. Their work included adding features, ensuring correct sizing, and resolving alignment issues within the widget. Furthermore, they addressed semantic concerns, enhanced accessibility features, and improved the interaction of the `Link` widget with keyboard input and modifier keys. The contributions improve the usability and overall web functionality of the `url_launcher` package.
flutter
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