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Work Experience

• Senior Software Engineer | Android, Slack Technologies, Inc.

  Jan, 2021 - Present

  Joined Slack's Platform Team to help make working life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive for millions of users worldwide. Led multiple high-impact initiatives spanning infrastructure tooling, architectural modernization, and feature delivery while maintaining a strong focus on code quality and developer experience. Working with the Slack Platform Team serving over 1 million developers and 750,000+ apps used daily by millions.

  • Block Kit Playground: Built comprehensive testing and visualization tool for all BlockKit components, benefiting entire organization across all pillars and accelerating modernization efforts through rapid prototyping and debugging capabilities

  • Android Docsite Initiative: Led org-wide documentation portal launch with automated PR approval workflow, saving engineering time across 100+ Android engineers

  • Block Kit Modernization Leadership: Spearheaded multi-quarter initiative to modernize UI toolkit architecture, transitioning from Android Views to Jetpack Compose. Exceeded Q4 goals and drove architectural improvements impacting developer productivity organization-wide

  • Code Health Champion: Ranked #1 on Q3 2024 leaderboard for improving Android org health score through systematic removal of technical debt and stale feature flags

  • Workflow Builder: Mentions in Form Dropdown: Delivered cross-platform feature unblocking ~400 customers and Workflow Builder V1 EOL, resolving 230+ Zendesk tickets

  • Edge-to-Edge Migration: Led Platform team contributions with 18/19 completed tickets, created AI-assisted migration guide, and provided cross-pillar support

  • Platform 2.0 Link Triggers & Shortcuts: Developed link trigger and shortcut implementation allowing customers to easily share and run 2.0 workflows from anywhere

  • File Input Block: Delivered highly requested file input block feature for Block Kit, enabling users to use files as input in Block Kit forms

  • Team Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing: Organized recurring team mob programming sessions to improve code-base health and share knowledge among team members

• Platform Lead Engineer | Android, Kijiji Canada, eBay

  Jan, 2019 - Jan, 20212 years

  Joined Kijiji Android team to accelerate mobile product development and enhance end user experience.

  • Launched feature allowing users to review their buying or selling experience on Kijiji

  • Built feature that allows Ad-ops to run campaigns for different periods of time

  • Improved application crash free user session rate from 97.81% to 99.92%

  • Created proof of concept for adding dark mode support to the app

  • Enabled lint checks on CI build after creating a baseline

  • Enabled Kotlin code formatting lint checks on CI build

  • Resurrected UI Unit test on Firebase Test Lab and Jenkins using Android emulator

  • Added new Jenkins job to distribute CI builds using Firebase App Distribution

  • Introduced proper code dependency injection using Dagger2 library

  • Introduced MVVM architecture pattern into project that allows engineers to use latest lifecycle aware AndroidX libraries

  • Led team to migrate app's API target level to Android 10 and Android 11

  • Participated in company-wide hackathon and was placed 3rd

  • Won world-wide eBay Classifieds hackathon competing with 10 other teams from 8+ countries during COVID-19

• Sr. Android Engineer / Team Lead (Consultant), Connected Inc.

  Jan, 2017 - Jan, 20181 year

  Created a complete solution for connected media device and a companion Android application to support device communication and media content discovery.

  • Used Kotlin & MVVM architecture to implement application features

  • Added Realm for data caching and offline support

  • Planned weekly sprint items and assigned resources among team

  • On boarded new hires and paired with them to ramp up on the project

  • Worked with Product Manager to plan and execute monthly releases to Google Play store

  • Successfully launched the feature complete companion Android app on time

  • Improved crash free user session from 92% to 99.2% by constantly analyzing data from Crashlytics

  • Reduced application size by 15% by using vector images and lightweight WebP image assets

  • Reduced 8% background battery consumption on the application by using Android platform's JobScheduler

• Platform Lead | Android, dubdub Inc.

  Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20171 year

  Led platform development and Android engineering initiatives for dubcandy - companion app for video influencers.

  • Worked with management to set priorities for upcoming releases

  • Initiated weekly app improvement brainstorming meeting with the team

  • Added automation script to reduce manual tasks that were required during day-to-day development

  • Improved code coverage by 7% for core components

• Sr. Android Engineer | Team Lead, dubdub Inc.

  Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20171 year

  Senior Android development role with team leadership responsibilities for dubcandy app.

  • Architected the Android app using the modern MVP pattern recommended by Google engineers

  • Designed API and translated API specification using OpenAPI Specification standard (Swagger 2.0)

  • Set up continuous integration using BuddyBuild for each pull-request

  • Used APK analyzer to optimize large image assets using WebP reducing the size by 19mb, resulting in over 58% savings on APK size

  • Ran android lint tool, and reduced 36% of critical lint warning and errors for the project

  • Maintained unit tests and improved code-coverage by 8% for newly added features

  • Developed fully functional proof-of-concept Android TV app that uses same API and services

• Sr. Android Engineer, QuickPlay Media

  Jan, 2015 - Jan, 20161 year

  Worked with R&D android development team for current and future products.

  • Refactor and enhance existing library features, provide better solution where necessary

  • Provide and update documentation with each release

  • Build and maintain a sample Android application to showcase supported features

  • Write unit tests, review peer-code and provide input if applicable

• Android Engineer, QuickPlay Media

  Jan, 2012 - Jan, 20142 years

  Android development for media streaming and entertainment platforms.

  • Released android app for major Canadian carrier which has support for LIVE and VOD video streaming (100,000 - 500,000 installs on Google Play store)

  • Built live streaming application using proprietary technology for a closed group of people

  • Managed, helped and guided team members to achieve sprint & project goals

  • Improved code-base by constantly refactoring or re-using established open-source software

  • Trained new hires to work on existing projects

  • Documented project standards and process in wiki

Projects Experience

• TRMNL Android Buddy

  Jan, 2024 - Present

  Your companion app to monitor and manage your TRMNL e-ink displays on the go. Essential companion app for managing TRMNL e-ink display devices with device monitoring, battery health tracking, and comprehensive device information.

  • Available on Google Play Store

  • Device Monitoring with real-time battery level and WiFi signal strength

  • Battery Health Tracking with automatic weekly data collection and historical charts

  • Device Details with comprehensive information including voltage readings

  • Device Preview of current screen content

  • Content Feed with TRMNL announcements and blog posts

  • Material You Design with dynamic theming support

  • Privacy-First with obfuscated sensitive information and biometric authentication

• Android TRMNL Display Mirror

  Jan, 2024 - Present

  Mirrors existing TRMNL device display image onto your Android device. A simple Android app that connects to the TRMNL/BYOS API to fetch the current screen image and shows it on your device with automatic refresh scheduling.

  • Automatic periodic screen updates with adaptive refresh intervals

  • Manual refresh and next image controls for on-demand updates

  • Support for custom TRMNL/BYOS server URLs for self-hosted setups

  • Refresh history logging for monitoring and verification

• Weather Alert

  Jan, 2023 - Present

  Your no-fuss, personal weather alerter. Set it and forget it—get alerted when it matters! A simple app designed to notify you when specific weather conditions meet the thresholds you set.

  • Available on Google Play Store

  • Custom Alerts for Specific Weather Conditions

  • Choose Your Data Source & Add Your Own API Key

  • Set Your Alert Frequency

  • Minimalist Interface

• Remote Notify - Device Monitor

  Jan, 2023 - Present

  Your personal Android device watchdog! Never let your remote devices die on you again! Monitor battery or storage levels and get alerts when thresholds are met.

  • Available on Google Play Store

  • Real-time Monitoring of battery and storage levels

  • Custom Alerts with triggers for battery percentage or storage GB

  • Multiple Notification Methods: Email, Twilio (SMS), Telegram, REST webhooks

  • Flexible Settings with custom check intervals

  • Detailed Stats with notification history and level changes

  • Dark & Light Mode with Material 3 design

• Android Keep Alive

  Jan, 2023 - Present

  A simple app to keep specific apps alive by checking if they are running. If not, they will be started for you. Designed for always-running foreground service to watch and restart applications.

  • Always running in foreground to watch and restart applications

  • Remote Logging and Heartbeat features

  • Designed for secondary phone plugged into power 24/7

  • Experimental project with specific use case

• H.K. Vision Plugin for Muzei

  Jan, 2020 - Present

  A simple Muzei Live Wallpaper plugin for H.K. Vision photography site. Allows users to use featured photos as background wallpaper that automatically changes over time.

  • Available on Google Play Store

  • Integration with H.K. Vision photography site

  • Automatic wallpaper rotation

  • Featured photography content

  • Open source on GitHub

• KGeoTimeline

  Jan, 2020 - Present

  Kotlin library for parsing Google Location History (Timeline) data. The library allows you to parse and analyze Google Location History data with a sample app to demonstrate its capabilities.

  • Open source Kotlin library

  • Google Location History parsing

  • Data analysis capabilities

  • Timeline processing features

  • API Documentation available

• GitHub PR Stats

  Jan, 2020 - Present

  An experimentation using GitHub APIs to visualize PR stats for individual contributor and other team members. The stats tool is created using Kotlin and leverages different GitHub API to collect information about Pull-Request made by author or PRs reviewed by the reviewer.

  • Show PR statistics for PRs created by specific author/contributor

  • Generate CSV for the PR stats for use in Google Sheets

  • Experimental project

  • GitHub API integration

• JSON5-Kotlin

  Jan, 2023 - Present

  A robust JSON5 parser and serializer for Kotlin that extends JSON with helpful features like comments, trailing commas, and unquoted keys while maintaining full backward compatibility with JSON.

  • JSON5 parsing and serialization

  • Full JSON backward compatibility

  • Support for comments and trailing commas

  • Unquoted keys support

  • Modern architecture with type safety

• 2020 Police Brutality Incidents

  Jan, 2020 - Present

  An Android app that allows users to browse reported police brutality incidents during the protests of 2020 following the murder of George Floyd. Created to share awareness of #BlackLivesMatter and #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd.

  • Browse community-reported incidents during 2020 protests

  • Data collected via 2020PB/police-brutality GitHub repository

  • Community driven by r/2020PoliceBrutality/ Reddit community

• SQLDelight 2.0 with PostgreSQL

  Jan, 2023 - Present

  A sample project exercising PostgreSQL with SQLDelight 2.0 on JVM. Exploration of the official guide with intention of filling in missing pieces.

  • SQLDelight 2.0 implementation example

  • PostgreSQL integration

  • JVM platform targeting

  • Comprehensive documentation

• Android Device Catalog Browser

  Jan, 2024 - Present

  Interactive browser for exploring and analyzing Android devices from the official Device Catalog. Built with AI-assisted development.

  • Interactive device catalog browser

  • Analysis of Android devices

  • Built with AI-assisted development (Vibe Coded)

• Canadian Mortgage Accelerator Calculator

  Jan, 2024 - Present

  Interactive mortgage calculator with acceleration strategies to help Canadian homeowners pay off mortgages faster. Built with AI-assisted development.

  • Interactive mortgage calculator

  • Acceleration strategies visualization

  • Canadian mortgage-specific calculations

  • Built with AI-assisted development (Vibe Coded)

• Social Sync

  Jan, 2024 - Present

  Python-based tool to automatically sync posts from Bluesky to Mastodon with GitHub Actions automation.

  • Automatic post synchronization between Bluesky and Mastodon

  • GitHub Actions automation

  • Python-based implementation

  • Built with AI-assisted development (Vibe Coded)

• Kids Math Adventure

  Jan, 2024 - Present

  Interactive educational game that makes learning math fun and engaging for children through adventure-based gameplay. Built with AI-assisted development.

  • Adventure-based math learning game

  • Engaging gameplay for children

  • Educational focus

  • Built with AI-assisted development (Vibe Coded)

• Camp Mate

  Jan, 2024 - Present

  Plan, pack, and coordinate camping trips with friends. Collaborative checklists, food planning, and real-time synchronization. Built with AI-assisted development.

  • Collaborative camping trip planning

  • Shared checklists and food planning

  • Real-time synchronization

  • Built with AI-assisted development (Vibe Coded)

• TRMNL Next Pickup Plugin

  Jan, 2024 - Present

  TRMNL private plugin displaying next waste collection pickup day for Durham Region with visual bin indicators. Built with AI-assisted development.

  • Waste collection pickup display

  • Visual bin indicators

  • Durham Region specific

  • Built with AI-assisted development (Vibe Coded)

• Android Barebone App

  Jan, 2019 - Present

  A barebone MVVM Android project with some essential tools configured the right way for 2019.

  • Open source barebone MVVM Android project

  • Essential tools configured

  • Clean architecture template

• ConstraintLayout Demo

  Jan, 2019 - Present

  A demo application for Android ConstraintLayout with various usage with sample code.

  • Available on Google Play Store (BETA Channel)

  • Open source on GitHub

  • Comprehensive ConstraintLayout examples

• Daily Headlines

  Jan, 2018 - Present

  Daily Headlines was created to check daily news headlines on TV rather than watching video clips from YouTube. Personal experiment on creating Android TV application.

  • Android TV application

  • Daily news headlines viewer

  • Open source (Archived Project)

• Yet NOT Another Android Syntax Highlighter

  Jan, 2020 - Present

  Explore well established web based syntax highlighter like PrismJS and highlight.js, and showcase technique on how anybody can quickly incorporate these into their Android project.

  • Integration guide for web-based syntax highlighters in Android

  • PrismJS and highlight.js examples

  • Sample implementation provided

• Hangouts.json Parser - Kotlin

  Jan, 2019 - Present

  Kotlin based JSON parser for Google Takeout dump of Hangouts chats. Uses Moshi JSON library and SQLDelight library to insert parsed database into SQLite database for further analysis.

  • Parse Google Hangouts data from Takeout

  • Moshi JSON library integration

  • SQLDelight for database operations

• Medium.com API Specification

  Jan, 2018 - Present

  API spec for medium.com using OpenAPI Specification (aka Swagger 2.0). Generates PHP, Java, Python, Go, Android, Objective-C and many more client SDK.

  • OpenAPI Specification for Medium.com API

  • Client SDK generation for multiple languages

  • Swagger 2.0 based

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