Mike Diarmid

Building AI-native developer tools at FlutterFlow, with my current focus split between Designer and Campus.

• • Training custom models and building the datasets, evaluation loops, and tooling behind them.
• • Exploring new ways for people to work with AI through Campus.
• • Previously built and managed Dreamflow's sandbox infrastructure.
• • Built hot reload for Flutter web before it existed in the official Flutter SDK.
• • Built complex code-analysis systems to power 'code as the source of truth' for Dreamflow.

Founded and scaled Invertase from a two-person operation to a team of 25, driving technical innovation in the cross-platform development space. Built a people-first culture that delivered multi-million dollar revenues through building industry-leading developer tools and SDKs.

• • Created and maintained FlutterFire – official Firebase SDK for Flutter (Google partnership)
• • Personally created and maintained React Native Firebase – officially recommended Firebase solution for React Native
• • Personally created Melos – leading monorepo management tool for Dart/Flutter ecosystems
• • Personally created Denque – high-performance data structure used by official Redis, MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB Node.js clients
• • Personally created Notifee – feature-rich local notifications library for React Native
• • Created innovative developer platforms including Globe (Flutter/Dart hosting) and Zapp (online Flutter prototyping code editor)
• • Founded and organized F3 (Flutter Firebase Festival) with 500+ attendees, co-hosted with Google
• • Led strategic partnerships with Google and Canonical for official SDK development
• • Built and led high-performing engineering teams focused on developer experience
• • Generated 50M+ weekly downloads across all open-source projects (including my personal projects)

Led development of React.js frontend and bespoke realtime distributed backend powered by Node.js.

• • Architected and built React.js frontend applications
• • Led Node.js infrastructure development and optimization
• • Built a high-throughput job queue and distribution system from scratch using Redis, Node.js, and Lua scripting, processing millions of jobs daily
• • Developed a high-performance Redis protocol parser for Node.js to optimize data serialization and network efficiency
• • Containerized and orchestrated distributed services using Kubernetes, ensuring scalability and operational reliability
• • Architectured and managed all infrastructure including servers, networks, and databases.
• • Hand-crafted real-time queue processing solutions as this was years before managed solutions were available on cloud platforms like GCP.

Maintained, upgraded & provided additional functionality to the in-house CMDB system. Designed and built server automation tools and systems as part of the virtual development team.

• • Built Server CMDB – new server management database website using jQuery, PHP/CakePHP & MSSQL
• • Developed CMDB Reporting System with Shared API – drag-and-drop report builder with sharing, scheduling, and history tracking using ExtJS, Laravel & MSSQL (migrated to Node.js + MongoDB)
• • Created Windows Elevated Installer Service – C# app to allow verified app installation without Windows admin rights
• • Built In-house Survey Builder – web application with comprehensive input and result viewing (graphs, wordles, etc.) using jQuery, D3, PHP & MSSQL
• • Developed Digital Ninjas – social skills tracking cross-platform app with gamification (points, awards, badges, rankings) using Node.js, MongoDB, AngularJS, Bootstrap, and native Android/iOS apps
• • Created Insight – web application for internal and external monitoring of server farms, compliance metrics & dashboards using jQuery, D3, Bootstrap, Laravel + MSSQL
• • Designed and built server automation tools: auto-provisioning, quality assurance, decommissioning, upgrades & patching

Managed and maintained system health of over 1,500 Wintel physical and virtual servers. Provided installation, customization and operation of operating systems, capacity planning, performance activities, and out-of-hours assistance for production systems.

• • Managed large-scale enterprise environment of 1,500+ physical and virtual servers (700+ production systems)
• • Installed, customized and operated approved operating systems on various platforms
• • Performed capacity planning and performance optimization on the server estate
• • Provided out-of-hours assistance for production systems (callout rota)
• • Developed Low Disk Radar – automated system to scan all server disk drives with custom threshold alerts
• • Built Server Build Compliance system – automated compliance monitoring ensuring standard toolset installation
• • Created Ticket Queue Monitoring – live web views of team support requests to ensure SLA compliance
• • Developed Video Wall – web-based dashboard displaying disk alerts, antivirus stats, backups, server status, hardware events
• • Built Server CMDB – dynamic self-populating web-based CMDB with server catalogs, disk info, installed applications, rack layouts, enclosures, and user dashboards
• • Created Intel Reporting Services – web-based reporting system allowing users to create and schedule bespoke reports