SUMMARY

• Ability to contribute to design, architecture, and technical strategy.
• Ability to set tasks and complete work independently without direction, or work as part of a team.
• Conducted interviews and contributed to the continuous grow the engineering team.
• Able to articulate rationale for development decision.
• Ability to ask the right questions, provide feedback to stakeholders, break down tasks, and create a plan to achieve the intended result.
• Knowledgeable of HTTP and REST - style web services.
• Ability to research, consult and guide decisions on architecture and technical strategy.
• Continuously research, test, and implement new techniques, Android frameworks, and utilities.
• Ability to architect, design, develop and test applications from scratch.
• Conducted technical Knowledge Transfer sessions for new developers.
• Comfortable with version control tools such as GitHub, SVN and more.
• A proponent of coding best practices based on Object Oriented Principles.
• Commitment to getting results for time-sensitive launches, promotions, and events.
• Adept with Android performance tuning and crash reporting applications.
• Considerable experience in debugging and profiling Android applications.
• Configured and initialized multiple cloud integration services including Parse, Firebase, and Google Cloud Messaging on Android apps.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a complex environment and maintain high productivity.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Android, Android SDK, JDK
• C++, JAVA, Python, webGL, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Kotlin
• MySQL, SQL, SQLite, MongoDB
• Eclipse, Android Studio
• Linux, Windows, Ubuntu, MacOS
• MS Office
• HTML, CSS, Node.js, Angular,js, Javascript
• REST, SOAP, JSON, GSON
• JIRA, DDMS tool, ADB, LeakCanary, Firebase Crash reporting
• Custom Android views classes and components.
• Android adapter views
• AsyncTask, IntentService, Handler Threads, Loopers &Loaders
• Picasso, Glide, Fresco,RXJava
• MVC, MVP, MVVM, Singleton, Dependency Injection
• Builder, Factory, Façade, Proxy, Command, Observer
• Material Design
• Git, GitHub

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SENIOR ANDROID MOBILE ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise uses Android tablets internally for their employee team to perform rental car check in/out and payments.
• Various apps are used and maintained by different teams based on function.
• Worked on BFF (Backend for Frontend project that would act as go between for our backend orchestration layer) which was a Maven based Spring Framework Java web app.
• Architecture used: MVVM RxJava based reactive architecture
• Using libraries such as Retrofit for web requests, Dagger for dependency injection.
• In addition to a multi-threading solution, RxJava was used for most of the design of the application.
• Frequently used Android (Java 8) functionality such as databinding, live data, view models.
• Agile methodology with monthly sprints (Confluence, Teams), daily team standups.
• Worked on several teams and worked closely with other teams to solve cross project problems
• Also worked closely with QA to diagnose and solve issues
• Maintained current projects, and built new features as needed.
• One major addition I worked on was to add Telematic data to transactions
• Logging - we used Splunk as a logging solution, used that to diagnose production errors and crashes.
• Testing - we would add unit tests for every line of logic added to codebase and some basic Android testing. (Junit, Mockito, Espresso)
• Team of 5 to 6 Member

SENIOR ANDROID MOBILE ENGINEER

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Updating app to meet new UX standards and new business requirements to drive app-based sales and interest.
• Updated app architecture to use MVVM with LiveData
• Unit testing using Junit, Test Builds using Jenkins
• Updated old and wrote all new code in Kotlin
• Repository based in git/stash, Implemented returns for Adobe Analytics App
• Switched from Urban Airship to Firebase for notifications, also updated code to handle notifications on Android O+.
• Wrote Kotlin Extensions for additional functions to optimize application
• Used Picasso to load images from URL sources found within a JSON string.
• Gradle plugin written in Kotlin, used to bring files into your source tree from the Internet or local
• Used a swipe layout within a recycle view.
• Customized the Action Bar and menu using different modes.
• Designed tooltip message popup that displays after a defined amount of time if conditions are met.
• Created a custom Text View for collapsing/expanding text.
• Filter messages so that older formatted message does not get displayed.
• Designed icon layout with dynamic elements.
• Used Gesture Detection to initiate Actions
• Created switch for choosing which layouts to use using Apptimize Feature Flags
• Initialized Runtime Permission request based off of end user’s responses.
• Dynamically controlled ViewPager based off of end user’s responses and progression within the process.
• Implemented multi-layered drawable vectors
• Updated to Executors which was used to handle background computations
• Implemented dynamic landing fragment based off of network connection.
• Implemented a custom Arc Progress bar with animations
• Used Async http request / responses to retrieve information needed to populate views.
• Implemented views based off of information provided by responses.
• Change views based off of real time responses from user.
• SQLite Database changed to Room for local storage of user info.
• Shared Preferences created and implemented to store default values.
• Animations implemented based off of changes in activities and fragments

SENIOR ANDROID MOBILE ENGINEER

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Diagnosed and solved several performance issues in the Android mobile app.
• Conducted frequent code review activities with the members of the development team
• Created compound and custom UI components improve the user experience.
• Experience with Android performance tuning and crash reporting applications.
• Created custom animation to improve the user experience following the material design principles.
• Implemented LeakCanary to detect memory leaks in early debugging and production builds.
• Cultivate an environment of excellence, through code design, code reviews.
• Regularly provide constructive feedback to team members so they can continuously grow individually.
• Incorporated TestFairy for the efficient track of the application crash, error reporting, and usage.
• Introduced Parcelables for object transfers within activities.
• Refactored un-optimized pieces of code to guarantee maximization in the use of resources.
• Parsed JSON files, objects, and arrays using a third-party converter included in the Retrofit documentation.
• Implemented multithreaded programming to handle long running operations.
• Used JIRA for new requirements, issues, bug tracking, and project planning.
• Integrated dependency injection with Dagger and Butter Knife.
• Use of Retrofit for communication between apps over network.
• Worked in small and large agile teams to design, prototype, and build our product offering and tools.
• Participated in the full lifecycle development process from product definition through design, development, test, release, and maintenance.
• Publish release packages and records.
• Added Localytics for in-app behavior tracking and usage, including location, gender, preferences, and interests.
• Implemented a Navigation Drawer for quick access to different activities and a better User Experience.
• Google Maps API integration with custom Markers and Polylines.