Todd Volkert
Director Of Engineering at Apple
Los Altos, California, United States
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Top SchoolTodd Volkert is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years of experience heading large teams at Google and now Apple, currently serving as Director of Engineering in Los Altos. He blends deep hands-on mobile engineering—contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Flutter’s engine, plugins, and framework—with a track record of founding and scaling products and teams from his days building Apache Pivot and a consumer photo platform. Todd’s background spans full-stack system design, front-end frameworks, and platform-level accessibility and Android/iOS integrations, reflecting both product and platform sensibilities. A pragmatic builder who has shipped high-throughput consumer and enterprise systems, he pairs technical craftsmanship with operational leadership across startups and major tech companies.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (28)
accessibility10
objective-c10
ios10
mobile-development10
website-development10
flutter-apps10
plugin-development10
ui-design10
java10
javas10
uid10
front-end-development10
android10
flutter-game10
dart10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
flutter/plugins
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Plugins for Flutter maintained by the Flutter team
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 18 commits, 44 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Todd primarily worked on fixing and refactoring Android-specific code within various Flutter plugins. Their contributions involved removing underscores from Java package names, adding missing license headers, updating the GoogleSignInPlugin, and addressing lint errors. The user also made updates to example applications, modifying the MainActivity files for multiple plugins and fixing code related to Google Sign-In.
dartandroidpluginflutter-pluginios
flutter/website
Jan 2017 - Aug 2022
Flutter documentation web site
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:18 reviews, 24 commits, 30 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Todd primarily contributed to the `flutter/website` repository by adding and updating job postings on Google's careers site. They added new job listings for various engineering roles, including Android, iOS, Windows, and an Engineering Manager, and also updated existing postings. Additionally, they removed requirements, and streamlined the application process.
flutterdartweb-site
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