SUMMARY

• Around 6 years of experience in Android
• 5 published apps in the Google Play Store
• Experience with over 9 different IDEs
• Over three years of experience as a senior developer
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Strong multi - developmental background
• Learner mentality with an eagerness to improve
• Creative problem solver, skilled in mapping out various solutions and choosing the most beneficial ones
• Skilled in numerous third party frameworks and plugins
• Self-motivated, willing to work independently and take technical risks.
• Experience and knowledge of all areas of development, including technical, UI/UX, and Design
• Proficient with multi-platform development, such as connecting web, PC/Mac and mobile apps
• Knowledgeable with current frameworks and integration such as Dagger2, RxJava, Firebase and Realm.
• Experience and success in creating user-oriented, customer facing apps.
• Skilled with design patterns such as MVP, MVC, MVVM, Observer, Builder, Adapter and several more.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages& Scripting: Kotlin, Java, C++, C, HTML, C#, Python

IDE: Android Studio, Eclipse, Visual Studio, IntelliJ, NetBeans

Version Control: GIT, SVN, GitHub, Stash, BitBucket, GitLab, Mercurial

Framework Suites: Firebase, Jetpack, Fused Location

Testing: Mockito, Expresso, Junit, Roboelectric, PowerMock

Continuous Integration: Jenkins, Travis, Firebase

Dependency Injection: Dagger2, Dagger1, Android Annotations

Image Handling: Glide, Picasso, Fresco, ExoPlayer, VideoPlayer

RESTful Web Services: REST, SOAP, JSON, GSON, Retrofit2, OkHttp3, Http URL Connection

Threading: Java Thread/Runnables, ThreadPools, Loopers/Handlers, AsyncTask, Loaders, RxJava, Coroutines

Project Management: JIRA

Messaging and Notification: FCM, GCM, Parse, Urban Airship

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, SOLID, DRY

Database: SQLite, Room, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Firebase Realtime DB, Firestore Mongo DB

Performance: Android Profiler, Leak Canary

Analytics: Firebase Analytics, Crashlytics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Denver, CO

Senior Android Developer

Responsibilities:

• Fixed and streamlined old code to be upgraded, reliable workable, and modernized with current code standards
• Developed for a number of different build variants and devices sizes
• Helped plan and implement new frameworks and third party usages
• During my development tenure, the app's rating increased an average of 0.4 percent, ranking one of the highest among similar apps
• Helped plan a secondary project to be completed alongside the current one (the “SpecU” project, for student users at universities)
• Solved problems with flexible and iterative solutions
• Learned and mastered a 5+ year old codebase in very short oder
• Assumed a leadership role and actively conducted and participated in interviews, giving recommendations related to potential candidates to join the team
• Contributed to the full mobile application development lifecycle from planning, requirement gathering, development, testing and launching on Google play store for beta testing
• Responsible for designing distinctive screens for tablet optimization and a cleaner layout
• Helped set the standard for mobile production environment best practices:
• Operation and SDLC cadence: two week sprints, daily scrums, demos and retrospective, clear and concise communication with all key stake holders, level setting delivery timeline expectations testing: 80% code coverage, pull requests for code reviews, paired programming when time, delivery schedule, and resources allowed, reviewing code for best practice (loosely coupled, reusable, non-redundant, highly testable, highly documented), and utilizing Espresso, Mockito, Junit, among several other tools to ensure we’re performing UI, automated, stress, instrumentation testing, ensuring we’re instituting a rigorous TDD structure and writing our test cases prior to the code
• Tools to get the job done: ensured tools were consistently utilized effectively and propertly for task assignment, code repository, code versioning, continuous integration, and, as mentioned above, testing
• Story Points: participated in setting and assigning priority points per task and story, to aide as a guide of why tasks to pull per sprint based on established timelines and expectations

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Senior Android Developer

Responsibilities:

• Led and motivated the team in meeting goals, solving problems and completing deliverables on time.
• Used Butterknife to reduce boilerplate code and ease the process of binding views.
• Implemented a subscriber - observer pattern to handle users
• Implemented new features using Kotlin and refactored Java code to Kotlin.
• Used Glide for improved image loading from the cache.
• Improved on the upvote system and made adjustments to the algorithm of how post and sub-reddits get featured.
• Redesigned user facing content such as profiles and flairs using Material Design and Design principles.
• Used RxJava to implement and improve the overall speed, efficiency and readability of the codebase.
• Used Mockito with Junit for ease of precise Unit Testing in order to thoroughly test the codebase.
• Used Dagger2 to streamline dependency injection and make the codebase more dynamic and readable.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Android Mobile Developer

Responsibilities:

• Used a front-end service for streaming music from an online database
• Implemented components and principles of material design such as floating buttons, navigation drawers and various themes.
• Implemented scheduled updates of the app using a WorkManager.
• Implemented code in Kotlin to improve the readability and efficiency of the app.
• Implemented an abstraction layer for accessing and using local persisted data using a content provider
• Worked with the team to ensure communication and progress were on track and productive.
• Managed and handled locally persisted data using Download Manager.
• Used Picasso for easy, lightweight handling of images such as album and playlist covers.
• Used Coroutines for efficient and lightweight handling of asynchronous operations
• Implemented the designing concepts like Observable scrolls, Snackbar messages, floating action buttons, Recycler views, etc
• Used Parcellable to marshal data from objects from activity to other activities.
• Used Shared Preferences to allow users to personalize options such as themes.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Android Mobile Developer

Responsibilities:

• Use of Layout qualifiers to allow for multiple screen resolution support.
• Utilized System broadcast receiver to optimize behavior of the app for events like low battery status and network availability.
• Parsed JSON results from web resources into POJO's using third party Libraries such as GSON
• Created multi-purpose apps for debugging and production with the use of flavors implemented in the gradle file
• Used crashlytics for application health analytics
• Used Dagger2 for dependency injection
• Participated in SCRUM meetings to help with collaboration among the mobile team
• Created custom animations for improved user experience
• Added push notifications using Urban Airship

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Android Mobile Developer

Responsibilities:

• Encrypted sensitive user data using android keystore and the cipher
• Used Expresso for UI automation testing
• Used ROOM for database abstraction layer for the SQLite database
• Supported multiple language and regional support using the capabilities associated with string resources in Android
• Used a content provider to handle caching between the network connections in the final build
• Used the SQLite Database schema for offline data persistence and localized caching
• Picasso for light weight image processing and displaying to the UI
• Participated in all aspects of the apps development lifecycle from planning to deployment on google play store
• Refactored code from MVP to MVVM.

Confidential, New York, NY

Junior Android Mobile Developer

Responsibilities:

• Used leak canary for memory leak detection
• Used Git with Bitbucket servers for the application’s version control system
• Participated in the planning, architecture and design of the app as well as code reviews and launching of the app on the play store
• Used Coroutines for efficient and lightweight handling of asynchronous operations
• Used intents and intent filters for initializing and passing data between components
• Debugged Network calls using Charles Proxy.
• Implemented flurry for analytics in android.
• Initialized runtime permissions request based on the end user's response to dialogs