Alan Hughes
Software Developer at Expo
Galway, Ireland
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Top SchoolAlan Hughes is a software developer based in Galway, Ireland with seven years of professional experience building mobile and backend solutions. Currently at Expo, he focuses on Android-native work and recently migrated multiple core Expo modules to a new native module API, showing deep familiarity with Java/Kotlin and cross-platform mobile tooling. Previously he shipped features and systems at Armour Interactive and KyzenTree, bringing production experience across smaller engineering teams. A Computer Science graduate from Griffith College Limerick, he pairs practical app development skills with a habit of contributing to prominent open-source projects, including meaningful changes to the widely used expo/expo repository. Notably, his work emphasizes modernizing platform internals—updating device, media, network and system modules—to keep developer-facing frameworks aligned with evolving native APIs.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Griffith College Limerick
Github Skills (8)
kotlin10
expo10
mobile-development10
native-android10
android10
android-development10
javas8
java8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
expo/expo
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
An open-source framework for making universal native apps with React. Expo runs on Android, iOS, and the web.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:909 reviews, 25 commits, 979 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alan contributed to the `expo/expo` repository by migrating various Expo modules to a new native module API. These migrations involved substantial code changes, particularly in the Java/Kotlin code, to adapt the existing functionalities of modules such as `expo-store-review`, `expo-constants`, `expo-haptics`, `expo-network`, `expo-device`, `expo-media-library`, `expo-system-ui`, `expo-sms`, `expo-sharing`, `expo-intent-launcher`, and `expo-document-picker` to the new API. The contributions demonstrate a focus on updating the underlying platform to align with the latest APIs.
ios-androidiosmobileweexframework7
alanjhughes/expo-google-places-autocomplete
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:4 releases, 30 commits, 6 PRs in 4 months
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