Ian Mckellar
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Mckellar is a Staff Software Engineer in California with 18 years of experience building web, desktop and systems software across startups and large tech companies. He has deep open-source roots—from GNOME and Mozilla platform internals (XPCOM, XUL) to recent contributions to the high-profile Flutter engine, including Fuchsia integration and Dart FIDL updates. At Google he’s applied that background to systems work on Glass connectivity, Bluetooth, audio/telephony and iOS OnHub, often handling complex cross-platform integrations and sensitive projects. Ian’s career uniquely spans early Perl web tooling and desktop platform work through modern mobile and embedded systems, making him adept at bridging user-facing web technologies and low-level platform engineering.
18 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
South Fremantle Senior High SchoolBCM, Computer Science, BCM, Computer Science at University of Western Australia
Github Skills (6)
c-plus10
c-language10
fuchsia10
dart10
c-plus-plus10
c-programming-language10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
flutter/engine
Aug 2015 - Nov 2019
The Flutter engine
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 21 commits, 49 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the Flutter engine, specifically focusing on the Fuchsia platform integration. Their work included adding debugging support, updating interfaces related to URL requests and responses, and refactoring code. They also made several commits involving the handling of process names and the integration of newer Dart FIDL bindings.
flutterflutter-enginec-plus-plus
ianloic/searchery
Apr 2008 - Nov 2008
Contributions:157 commits in 6 months
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