Amanda Riu
Senior Mobile Engineer at XOi
City of Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmanda Riu is a Senior Mobile Engineer and Android Software Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, maintainable mobile apps primarily in Kotlin and Java. She combines deep Android expertise—modernizing legacy Java apps to Kotlin with Jetpack Compose, MVVM, Room, Retrofit, and Hilt—with a broad IT background spanning hardware, networking, cloud, IVR/speech, and data center operations. As a former CTO who helped scale a SaaS startup 4x, she blends technical leadership, team building, and product-driven engineering, and has led teams to significantly improve app ratings, installs, and DAUs. Amanda is an active open-source contributor across prominent projects like WordPress-Android, AztecEditor-Android, and Mobile Gutenberg, where she’s shipped editor and onboarding features and improved rich-text parsing and accessibility. She mentors engineers and acts as a pragmatic solutions engineer, comfortable jumping from architecture to bug fixes or AI integration in developer workflows. Based in Saratoga Springs, NY, she’s a perpetual student of technology who aims to build durable solutions that empower teams to evolve.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Networking Systems, Hardware, Computer Networking, Systems Administration, Computer Networking Systems, Hardware, Computer Networking, Systems Administration at ITT Technical Instititute
English
Github Skills (28)
kotlin10
editors10
objective-c10
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
wordpress10
ui-design10
editor10
java10
javas10
xcode10
android-app10
android10
gutenberg10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wordpress-mobile/AztecEditor-Android
Nov 2017 - Oct 2022
A reusable native Android rich text editor component.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:40 reviews, 26 commits, 18 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Amanda primarily contributed to the development of a rich text editor component for Android. Their work focused on enhancing the editor's functionality by implementing support for parsing and handling the 'style' attribute within HTML, including a CSS parsing utility and color conversion. The user also addressed history-related issues by implementing a timer-based approach to manage the history stack and prevent redundant entries. They further made improvements to the code by adding tests for the implemented classes and fixing Ktlint issues.
nativerich-text-editorandroid-libraryandroidrich-text
wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android
Mar 2018 - Aug 2021
WordPress for Android
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:12 reviews, 105 commits, 27 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Amanda primarily contributed to the WordPress for Android application by implementing and modifying features related to the My Site section and editor onboarding. This included adding functionality for exploring plans, integrating user ID hashing for feature access control, and enhancing the editor help menu. The changes involved modifications to the UI, view models, and supporting classes within the Android application.
oauth2-authenticationwordpressandroidsecretmobile
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