Andreas Rossbacher
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAndreas Rossbacher is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with nearly two decades of mobile engineering experience and a decade of focused professional experience on Android. He built Yahoo! Mail for Android from the ground up, helped establish Android development practices at Yahoo, and later shaped Android infrastructure and CI at Airbnb to improve scalability and app quality. His open-source contributions to well-known Airbnb libraries like Mavericks and DeepLinkDispatch show a pragmatic focus on build automation, ProGuard/AndroidX modernization, and robust deep-link handling. Comfortable across product teams and infra, he blends hands-on coding with build and test automation expertise that quietly reduces developer friction. Trained in computer science and psychology, he brings user-aware engineering and systems thinking to mobile platform challenges.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer science, Psychology, Diploma, Computer science, Psychology at TU Dortmund University
German, English
Stackoverflow
46reputation
172reached
2answers
0questions
Github Skills (22)
kotlin10
deeplink10
annotations10
deep-linking10
android-development10
annotation-processing10
androidx10
android10
build-automation10
proguard10
gradle9
gradlew9
reflections8
reflection8
rxjavafx7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
airbnb/DeepLinkDispatch
Jun 2018 - Oct 2022
A simple, annotation-based library for making deep link handling better on Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:19 releases, 58 reviews, 53 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to improving the deep link handling library for Android. They added the functionality to include the URI template in the broadcast and updated tests accordingly. They also addressed multiple bugs and improved the existing code by making lines shorter, and fixed typos. In addition, they worked on refactoring by renaming `loader` to `registry` and made sure that the entries were sorted correctly.
androiddeeplinkdeep-linksannotation-processor
airbnb/mavericks
Aug 2018 - Oct 2022
Mavericks: Android on Autopilot
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android) & Automation Engineer
Mobile Developer (Android) & Automation EngineerContributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 10 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily focused on configuring and maintaining the build process for the Android application. They implemented and updated ProGuard rules to obfuscate and optimize the code for release builds. They also updated the project to AndroidX, demonstrating an understanding of Android development best practices. Additionally, the user added and configured the ProGuard setup for the todomvrx sample application.
android
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.