Ian Hickson, BSc

I am currently available for consulting work.

Public-visible work products:

• Building a UI Framework (Book)

I co-founded the Flutter project, now the most widely used multiplatform UI framework, leading the project through the initial launch of Flutter 1.0 on Android and iOS in 2018 and continuing to support for macOS, Windows, Linux, the web, and Fuchsia. In my role as tech lead I fostered an active open source developer community while maintaining the highest standards of quality for our code and documentation.

I co-founded and then led the WHATWG standards organization, taking on the lead role as HTML specification editor. In this role I was responsible for the standardization of numerous now widely-deployed web technologies such as the <video> element, Web Sockets, Web Storage, and Web Workers. I also effected a significant cultural change in the web standards sphere, moving efforts into a radically more open environment and raising the quality expectations of web standards.

Notable achievements:

• Acid2 and Acid3 tests
• HTML5
• WebSocket

I started my career as a volunteer Quality Assurance engineer on the Mozilla project, creating test cases for the CSS and HTML specifications, quickly taking the position of primary QA contact for Mozilla's Layout component, and contributing to the CSS working group as an Invited Expert.

Notable achievements:

• Co-edited CSS2.1.