Seth Ladd
Group Product Manager at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolSeth Ladd is a seasoned Group Product Manager at Google with 17 years in software and 11 years at Google driving developer-focused products like Dart, Flutter, and Fuchsia. He combines product leadership with hands-on engineering experience—contributing to open-source projects such as Homebrew, the Chromium dashboard, dartdoc, and the Flutter website—to improve developer tooling, CI/CD, and documentation. Known for growing engaged ecosystems and fast frameworks, he balances strategic vision with detailed execution on build systems, web front-ends, and release automation. His background spans developer advocacy to director-level engineering roles, giving him a rare fluency in storytelling, developer experience, and operational delivery. Based in Mountain View, he brings entrepreneurial drive and a track record of simplifying complex developer workflows to help teams ship confidently.
17 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Technology, BS Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (52)
localstorage10
javascript10
website-development10
package-management10
flutter-apps10
testing10
command-line-interface10
bash10
cicd10
homebrew10
singleton10
parsing10
command-line10
html10
code-coverage10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
dart-lang/dartdoc
Nov 2014 - Jun 2017
API documentation tool for Dart.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:503 commits, 391 PRs, 438 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Seth contributed to the development of the code coverage tooling and the CI/CD pipeline. They integrated code coverage reports using Dart Coveralls, which involved modifying the `tool/travis.sh` script to include code coverage commands and setting up the necessary environment variables. They also added a test to trigger code coverage, which indicates a focus on improving test coverage and automation within the project. Furthermore, the user fixed date in copyright, and generated the index file from a template which also indicates a focus on maintaining the project.
apidocumentation-generatordartdocumentation-toolapi-documentation
dart-archive/stagehand
Jul 2014 - Sep 2015
Dart project generator - web apps, console apps, servers, and more.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:126 commits, 7 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Seth primarily focused on contributing to the Dart project generator, 'stagehand'. Their work involved adding and updating copyright notices in various Dart files. The user also integrated the `args` package for command-line argument parsing, improved code formatting, and contributed to the overall project structure by moving shared files to a superclass. Moreover, the user added a LICENSE file, included updates for the web app, and provided contributions to the examples, library, and website.
consoledart2dartbackground-serviceweb-apps
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