Alex Jiao
Senior Android Engineer (Contractor) at The Warehouse Group
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Jiao is a Senior Android Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and leading mobile teams and large-scale Android projects across consumer apps, embedded systems, and payment SDKs. Currently shaping the architecture for The Warehouse Group's flagship apps in Auckland, he previously led Android teams at Mypinpad, MEGA, ArcherMind, and MediaTek, delivering system-level features deployed on millions of devices. He combines hands-on engineering—implementing modular SDKs, performance optimizations, and custom Android framework work—with people leadership, coaching teams of up to 40 and running cross-regional delivery. An active open-source contributor, Alex has deep language-level expertise demonstrated by parser/tokenizer improvements to the prominent Elixir project, reflecting a strong curiosity about language internals beyond typical mobile concerns. He’s pragmatic about long-term maintainability and CI/CD automation, and known for turning complex security and reliability requirements (e.g., payments, OTA, privilege frameworks) into production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer science and Technology, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer science and Technology at Xihua UniversityAssociate of Engineering Computer Applications Technology, Associate of Engineering Computer Applications Technology at Shandong University of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
tokenize10
tokenizer10
text-parsing10
parsing10
elixir10
erlang8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
elixir-lang/elixir
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Simple from zero to scale
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 29 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the Elixir tokenizer and parser. Their contributions included adding features like comment preservation and the ability to wrap literals in blocks. They also fixed a comment preservation bug and added functionality for handling heredoc literals. This work demonstrates a strong understanding of the Elixir language's internal workings and its parsing/tokenizing processes.
functional-languagescalablefunctional-programmingelixircompiler
uohzxela/uohzxela.github.io
Jan 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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