Rene Floor
Lead Flutter SDK Engineer at ReneFloor
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRene Floor is a Lead Flutter SDK Engineer with a decade of experience building cross-platform mobile solutions and leading SDK development. He has driven core Flutter plugins and packages—most notably significant contributions to flutter_cached_network_image and flutter_cache_manager that improved caching, image resizing and iOS file path support—and added platform-level Bluetooth permission handling to the widely used flutter-permission-handler. Rene blends hands-on mobile engineering (iOS and Android) with developer advocacy from his time at Baseflow and community leadership as organizer of Flutter Netherlands. He has led Flutter teams at Albert Heijn and now guides SDK work at Stream, bringing product-focused technical leadership to large consumer apps. His background in innovation sciences and early work on healthcare apps gives him a pragmatic, user-centered approach to building reliable, maintainable SDKs. Colleagues know him for refactoring tricky platform integrations into reusable, well-tested components that benefit the broader Flutter ecosystem.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Innovation Sciences, Master of Science (MSc) Innovation Sciences at Eindhoven University of TechnologyEngineering/Industrial Management, Engineering/Industrial Management at Chalmers University of Technology
Github Skills (25)
objective-c10
caching10
ios10
flutter-plugin10
flutter-apps10
permission10
cachemanager10
bluetooth-le10
camera10
bluetooth10
in-app-purchase10
swift10
flutter-game10
dart10
flutter10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Baseflow/flutter_cached_network_image
Dec 2017 - Nov 2022
Download, cache and show images in a flutter app
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 275 commits, 101 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Rene primarily focused on implementing and improving the caching mechanism for network images in a Flutter application. Their contributions include the initial implementation of a `CachedNetworkImage` widget, expanding its functionality to include placeholders, error handling, and animation control. The user also refactored the code, introduced features like cleaning the cache, resizing images, and adding support for HTTP headers, further improving the widget's flexibility and functionality.
imageproviderflutter-appimagecachingdart
Baseflow/flutter_cache_manager
Dec 2017 - May 2022
Generic cache manager for flutter
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 344 commits, 152 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Rene extracted and refactored the cache manager functionality from the cached network image to be used in separate files. They also moved the codebase to separate files. They refactored the code and added the capability to store files in relative paths to support iOS. They added the optional feature of logging.
cache-managerdartgenericbaseflowcache
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