David Albers

Android Developer Acorns
Since February 2022 remote in Chicago, IL

Helped modularize Android project
- Demonstrated the effect of large modules on build and test time with module-based metrics
Customized Gradle and CI pipeline to decrease test time by 75% and total CI usage by 50%
- Converted Acorn's screenshot testing framework to use JVM-based testing with Roborazzi
- Added AffectedModuleDetector to only test affected modules
Lead effort to replace cache singleton with Apollo Kotlin's normalized cache
- Refactored cache singleton usage in View to use MVVM with Apollo
- Created extensive docs on using caching and how to refactor View architecture
Release manager for the weekly release rotation
- Automated release management so devs no longer ran custom release scripts
Added metrics for flaky tests and used it fix common issues
- Went from 20% CI runs failing due to flaky tests to near-zero

Android Developer Expedia
From January 2018 to February 2022 in Chicago, IL

Integrated a new GraphQL API using Apollo Android
- migrated lodging LOB from REST to GraphQL
- built new features across lodging, homescreen, and trip LOBs using GraphQL
Helped bring Expedia's design system to Android
- Wrote design system tokens and code for system's Android library
- Built custom Views adhering to the system
Core team member on a project that combined above design system & API to build a library of reusable server-driven UI (SDUI) components
- created proofs-of-concept and later implemented solutions for library architecture
- setup publishing of library on Jenkins then later migrated it to Github Actions (GHA)
- helped onboard teams of contributors to the project
Wrote blog posts and gave presentations to other devs about design system, GraphQL, and SDUI library on Android
Wrote integration tests using Robolectric, helped convert existing code to MVVM

Android Developer First Orion
From November 2016 to December 2017 in Little Rock, AR

Software Engineer CymSTAR
from January to November 2016 in Tulsa, OK

Modified A-10 Simulator for added functionality and bug fixes
Debugged and solved issues caused by upgrading real-time OS (VxWorks) on simulator
Implemented additional constraints for scheduling genetic algorithm in C

Software Intern InvoTek
from August 2011 to January 2016 in Alma, AR

Created accessible user interfaces by providing alternative access methods such as eye-tracking
Implemented Bluetooth communication in apps and developed custom Views in Android

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Tulsa
Graduated May 2016, GPA: 3.9