Toby Hsieh
Software Engineer at Fountain
San Leandro, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolToby Hsieh is a software engineer with 13 years of experience delivering scalable backend and full-stack solutions across startups and established companies in the Bay Area. He is currently a Software Engineer at Fountain in San Leandro, CA, where he combines systems reliability, performance engineering, and pragmatic product delivery. His career spans Senior SRE and software engineering roles at Academia.edu, Square, Lookout, Bugsnag, and Fond, with a track record of building resilient services and shipping features across web and mobile platforms. He is an active open-source contributor to Vanilla Music Player for Android, implementing UI enhancements such as song duration displays, a Jump to Time dialog, and a details context menu. Toby earned a BA in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and brings a strong blend of backend thinking, operations discipline, and user-focused product sense from the Bay Area tech ecosystem.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, 3.737, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, 3.737 at UC Berkeley
Github Skills (15)
javas10
ui-d10
android-sdk10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
frontend-development10
android10
java10
dialogfragment10
context-menus9
context-menu9
kotlin9
sqlite8
sqlite38
sqlite-38
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vanilla-music/vanilla
Apr 2018 - Feb 2020
Vanilla Music Player for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Toby primarily focused on enhancing the Vanilla Music Player for Android. Their contributions centered around implementing UI improvements, specifically adding song duration display in various parts of the application such as the queue, playlist, and album view. They also added a "Jump to Time" dialog, improving user interaction. Furthermore, they introduced a context menu for showing song details.
vanillaandroidkotlinmusicmusic-player
tobyhs/github-comment-counter
Jun 2016 - Jun 2023
A tool for counting Pull Request Review Comments performed by an organization's GitHub users
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 1 month
request-reviewreviewperformedpull-requestspull-request
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