Liam Mcloughlin
Developer Tools Lead at Google
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLiam Mcloughlin is a Developer Tools Lead with 15 years of experience building developer-first tooling and infrastructure at companies including Google and Fitbit. He specializes in improving developer experience and operational workflows, drawing on a strong embedded and IoT background demonstrated by firmware and bootloader contributions for Raspberry Pi and openiBoot. Liam blends hands-on engineering with leadership, having progressed from intern to lead roles while shipping tools that scale across product teams. Based in the UK and a first-class Software Engineering graduate from the University of Central Lancashire, he has a knack for making complex hardware/software interactions simpler for developers.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering, 1st Class, Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering, 1st Class at University of Central Lancashire
Github Skills (19)
bootloader10
firmware10
c-programming10
kernel10
u-boot10
sys10
kernel-mode10
boot10
embedded10
raspberry-pi10
c119
c179
conditional-compilation9
egl9
arm8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Hexxeh/rpi-firmware
Apr 2012 - Oct 2012
Firmware files for the Raspberry Pi
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Liam primarily contributed to firmware updates and modifications for the Raspberry Pi. Their work involved adding and updating firmware files, including boot files and kernel modules, along with changes to system libraries. They also added support for loading kernel images and device trees. Significant updates included rebuilding the kernel and incorporating support for USB webcam functionality.
firmwareraspberry-pi
iDroid-Project/openiBoot
Nov 2010 - Dec 2010
Collaborative development of openiBoot for the iDroid Project
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Liam primarily focused on modifying the `openiboot` project, likely a bootloader for iOS devices. Their work involved adding build targets and disabling features like USB for specific devices (iPad), indicating efforts to adapt the bootloader for different hardware platforms. The user's commits demonstrate an understanding of hardware configurations and conditional compilation.
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