Achievements and Highlights

Summary

Android engineering professional with over 10 years of experience in software design, architecture, and development.

More than 2 years in team management and project management.

Experience working with large multicultural international teams for over 5 years.

Experience developing several large-scale Android apps with over 10 million monthly active users.

Excellent team player along with good communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills.

Journeys in Professional Growth

Work Experiences

Senior Android Engineer

ContextLogic Inc (Wish)

- Worked on the client infrastructure team to maintain CI/CD pipelines and perform architecture refactoring.

- Successfully reduced the pipeline build time from 40 minutes to 15 minutes, resulting in a significant acceleration of the code review process.

- Improved app performance by optimizing the home page start-up display, resulting in a 1-second improvement in start-up speed, and optimizing the feed page refresh to prevent white screens.

Jun.2023 - Present

Senior Android Engineer

SmartNews Inc

- Developed the Smartnews US edition local and experience features from end to end, including disaster map and Youtube video integration inside the feeds, helping to improve the users` engagement, activation, and retention metrics.

- Developed utilities to improve the developer experience and efficiency, including A/B test feature flags editor, shared preference editor, unit test coverage report automation, and feed item preview feature.

- Built the server-driven dynamic UI prototype to update the UI without app release using flex layout and DSL.

Sep. 2021 – Jan. 2023

Senior Android Engineer & Android Tech Lead

Sina Weibo

- Achieved a 300% increase in module DAU by leading the team to develop the Live module of the Weibo app, managing features development and efficient utility development.

- Completed performance monitoring and optimization of the live room, including open speeds, fps, and memory leaks.

- Increased the page open speed by implementing the Gradle plugin to track the live room performance at the method level, then extract a library to benefit the other teams.

- Implemented dynamic template configuration, reduced the cost of development time, and offered the ability of online configuration.

- Completed the digitization of the live room, including data collection, reporting, monitoring, and statistics, which helped the product teams to measure the users` metrics.

- Built and led the engineering team to develop the Yi Live Android app (a live-streaming app with up 1m DAU).

March. 2019 – Sep. 2021

Android Engineer

Sogou Inc

- Developed a game store app using MVVM, OkHttp, RxJava, and Retrofit to display thousand of game apps and provide game installation and management functions.

- Developed an Android SDK for the game maker to connect the Sogou account and profit system.

- Developed a Gradle plugin to pack the SDK automatically.

- Built the smart photo album powered by machine learning to do the clustering, classification, and scoring.

Feb. 2017 – Nov. 2018

Android Engineer

Kingsoft Office Software

- Developed mail contacts management, attachment management, and multiple themes support.

- Connected Dropbox to save attachments for WPS Mail international edition.

- Increased the attachment decoding speed by 24 times by optimizing Base64 data reading flow.

May. 2015 – Jan. 2017

Android Framework Engineer

Samsung Mobile

- Developed customized 'Contacts' and 'Phone' of AOSP for Samsung Exynos processor meeting China Mobile standards.

- Developed an automatic testing tool for saving 80% of testing time by supporting auto recording, replaying, comparison, and reports.

Feb. 2013 – May. 2015
Skills

Highlighted Skills

Mobile Development

Java

Kotlin

Android Studio

Jetpack

Google Play Console

MVVM

Retrofit

Android Tests

LeakCanary

Dependency Injection

Performance Optimization

UI Test Automation

Flutter

Gradle

Firebase

CI/CD

Git

Web Development

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

TypeScript

Tailwind CSS

React.js

Next.js

GSAP

Framer Motion

Express.js

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Prisma

Mongoose

Docker

NGINX

Academic Background

Educations

Tianjin UniversityMaster of Electronic and Communication EngineeringSep. 2010 - Feb. 2013

Tianjin UniversityBachelor of Information and Communication EngineeringSep. 2006 - Jul. 2010

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