Hi there ๐Ÿ‘‹

As of April 2023, I've been an Android Engineer with over five years of experience working remotely, trying to live and flex my true digital nomad life. ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ”๐ŸŒŽ

โœจ What I've Worked On:

๐Ÿ“ฑ Apps

  • Dose (Jetpack Compose, Material Design 3, Room): A medication reminder app, designed to help you stay on top of your health.
Dose: Medication Reminder - Apps on Google Play
Your personal medication reminder app.
  • Textify (Kotlin, ML Kit, Firebase): A text recognition app to help detect text from images and stores them back as PDF.
Textify - Apps on Google Play
Convert Your Photos to Text Documents in a Few Simple Steps

๐Ÿ’ป Open Source Contributions & Publications:

  • Extended Player View Library (Kotlin): Published an easy to customize player view library for Android. See the code on GitHub.
  • Jetpack Compose Samples (Kotlin, Compose): Contributor to the leading open-source project to help people learn about Compose, starred by more than 3k developers. Contributions include adding a todo feature to one of the sample apps.
  • Cascade Library (Kotlin): Contributor to an open-source library to replace Androidโ€™s popup menu, starred by 1.4k developers. Contributions include adding support for grouped menus and fixing an invisible item bug.

๐Ÿ“š Books

  • Published a book about the one day experience of spending my day with Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc, who single-handedly invented both the Apple I and Apple II computers in the 1970s.
โ€ŽA Day with The Woz
โ€œโ€˜The Wozโ€™ built the first [personal computer]โ€”by hand, himself.โ€โ€”USA Today<br /><br />A real life one-day experience, read how it felt for an Apple fanboy when he met Stephen Gary โ€œSteveโ€ Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc, who single-handedly invented both the Apple I and Apple II computers in the โ€ฆ

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๐Ÿ“ฎ Contact


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