Anderson Addo
Software Engineer at Stripe
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnderson Addo is a versatile software engineer with 8+ years of experience building web, mobile and game software across startups, AAA studios, and cloud platforms. He blends product instincts from founding two startups and Lumberjack Apps with production engineering at companies like AWS, Uncountable, and Stripe, shipping features from dynamic spreadsheet UIs to high-throughput data tooling and gameplay systems. A pragmatic full-stack developer, he’s contributed to notable open-source projects such as react-native-firebase and has a track record improving TypeScript types, iOS performance, and React Native rendering components. He prefers creative domains—games, frontend, graphics—and brings an engineer-first approach focused on craft, developer productivity, and sustainable team culture. An unusual strength is his cross-domain fluency: he moves comfortably between realtime game systems, mobile UX, and serverless/cloud architectures.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science (+ Entrepreneurship Minor), Bachelor's degree Computer Science (+ Entrepreneurship Minor) at Brown UniversityYonsei UniversityIB Diploma, IB Diploma at SOS-Hermann Gmeiner International College
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
react-native10
mobile-development10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
firebase10
ios9
flatlist9
props9
prop9
android8
documentation7
fc6
cm6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
saleel/react-native-super-grid
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
Responsive Grid View for React Native
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 21 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Anderson primarily focused on enhancing the `react-native-super-grid` library by implementing a new `SuperGridSectionList` component. Their work involved restructuring the code to utilize React Native's `SectionList`, adapting the rendering logic, and refactoring existing functionalities. Key changes include modifying the rendering of grid items, adjusting data handling for sectioned lists, and improving code readability and indexing.
reactgrid-systemtoolbargrid-layoutgrid-view
invertase/react-native-firebase
Dec 2019 - Aug 2020
🔥 A well-tested feature-rich modular Firebase implementation for React Native. Supports both iOS & Android platforms for all Firebase services.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 15 PRs, 40 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Anderson primarily contributed to the React Native Firebase project by fixing bugs and improving the TypeScript definitions. They corrected the signature for `setBackgroundMessageHandler` to include a promise return, updated type tests to reflect these changes, and addressed documentation inconsistencies related to background message handling. Additionally, the user fixed a performance issue in the iOS implementation and corrected a path in the website documentation.
web-sdkfeature-richreact-hooksios-androidremote-config
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