Phil Quitslund
Software Engineer at Google
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Quitslund is a seasoned software engineer with 14+ years of experience, currently at Google and based in Portland, Oregon. He brings deep expertise in Dart and Flutter, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like the Flutter framework, Flutter DevTools, and IntelliJ IDEA plugins. His work spans full-stack development, tooling, linting and SDK internals—shipping features, refactors, and automated tests that improve developer experience and code quality. Phil’s background blends a humanities BA in Philosophy with an MS in Computer Science, which shows in his attention to clear interfaces and maintainable abstractions. Notably, he has driven subtle but impactful maintenance work—lint rule design, SDK versioning logic, and test updates—that keep large ecosystems healthy and reliable.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Portland State UniversityBA, Philosophy, BA, Philosophy at Reed College
Github Skills (49)
test-automation10
unit-testing10
maintenance10
flutter-plugin10
scripting10
flutter-apps10
testing10
app-framework10
audio-processing10
user-interface10
ui-design10
plugin10
lua10
audio10
api-documentation10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dart-lang/linter
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
Linter for Dart.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:166 releases, 864 reviews, 2149 commits in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Phil's contributions focused on improving the Dart linter by implementing specific new lint rules to ensure code quality. This included writing code to detect issues with API usage, such as missing or inconsistent documentation for public APIs and verifying that methods were properly documented. The user also refactored code to use new APIs, enhanced the checks, and provided tests to ensure the rules were correctly applied.
linterlintstyle-linterdartflutter
dart-lang/sdk
Nov 2011 - Jan 2023
The Dart SDK, including the VM, JS and Wasm compilers, analysis, core libraries, and more.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 1208 commits, 3 PRs in 11 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Phil primarily focused on improving and maintaining linting rules and tests for the Dart SDK. They implemented new tests for ensuring correct handling of imports and parameters and they updated existing test suites to reflect changes in compiler behavior. The user also contributed to the improvement of code quality through fixes for various diagnostics related to invalid code.
dartsdkdart2jscore-librariesflutter
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