Ana-maria Capatina
Staff Mobile Engineer at DuckDuckGo
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAna-maria Capatina is a Staff Mobile Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building production-grade Android apps and leading cross-functional teams. She progressed from Java backend roles into mobile engineering and has held senior and lead Android positions at Deliveroo, OakNorth, and DuckDuckGo, where she now shapes platform direction. Her contributions to the widely used DuckDuckGo Android app include UI improvements, bookmark features, and robust ViewModel and test integrations, reflecting a focus on maintainable, user-centered code. Comfortable at the intersection of product and engineering, she regularly balances shipping new features with refactors that reduce technical debt. She holds an MSc in Software Engineering and brings an engineer’s rigor from early Java-heavy roles through to modern Android architecture. Colleagues would describe her as a pragmatic leader who quietly improves user experience through thoughtful, testable changes.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Software Engineering, MSc Software Engineering at Faculty of Automation, Computers and ElectronicsBaccalaureate Diploma Mathematics-Physics, Baccalaureate Diploma Mathematics-Physics at Carol I High School (former Nicolae Balcescu High School)
English, German
Github Skills (10)
kotlin10
uid10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
android-development10
mobile-ui9
robolectric9
junit9
gradle8
gradlew8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/Android
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
DuckDuckGo Android App
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:741 reviews, 97 commits, 491 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ana-maria primarily contributed to the DuckDuckGo Android app, focusing on user interface and functionality enhancements. Their work involved modifying menu actions, adding and refactoring bookmark and favorite features, and integrating the changes with view models and tests. They also addressed various UI-related changes and improvements, including modifications to the splash screen and the implementation of a data scheme parsing improvement.
translationsduckduckgoandroidandroid-appduckduckgo-android
deliveroo/jsonapi-parser
Jul 2017 - May 2018
A sample JSON API parser using GSON
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
apiparser-apigsonparserjson-api
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