Zach Anderson
Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarZach Anderson is a software engineer with 13 years of experience based in Sunnyvale, California, currently building core pieces of Flutter at Google. He focuses on compilers, language runtimes, and scheduling, and brings practical systems expertise from work on the Dart SDK and Flutter engine where he’s improved low-level networking, VM service integration, and platform view/text rendering. Zach has deep Android and native skills demonstrated by substantial contributions to android_alarm_manager plugins—refactoring them to run reliably in background contexts and integrating Firebase—and by extending engine functionality for Fuchsia. Colleagues benefit from his blend of C++, Java, and Dart fluency, plus a knack for tracking down subtle race conditions and preserving useful stack traces. Rare among mobile engineers, he pairs UI and plugin work with runtime and tooling improvements that make apps more robust across platforms.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (27)
c-language10
mobile-development10
flutter-plugin10
flutter-apps10
plugin-development10
android-sdk10
network-programming10
android-development10
java10
javas10
flutter-engine10
sdk10
android10
error-handling10
flutter-game10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
flutter/engine
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
The Flutter engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2274 reviews, 380 commits, 1608 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Zach's contributions centered around extending the functionality of the Flutter engine, specifically related to the Fuchsia platform. They implemented features to properly return VM service assets on Fuchsia, enabling the Observatory to function correctly, and introduced a service extension for listing and managing platform views within the content handler. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of C++ and its integration within the Flutter engine's core components.
flutterflutter-enginec-plus-plus
dart-lang/sdk
Feb 2013 - Sep 2022
The Dart SDK, including the VM, JS and Wasm compilers, analysis, core libraries, and more.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1178 commits, 5 PRs, 557 pushes in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Zach primarily worked on improving the Dart SDK's `dart:io` library, specifically focusing on handling HTTP timeouts and socket errors. Their contributions involved addressing race conditions in HTTP connection setup and ensuring stack traces are retained for native socket errors. These changes included modifying `http_impl.dart` and `socket_patch.dart`, demonstrating a focus on low-level network programming and error handling within the Dart runtime environment.
dartsdkdart2jscore-librariesflutter
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