Andrew Orobator
Senior Android Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Orobator is a Senior Android Engineer with 12 years of experience building consumer and enterprise mobile apps, currently contributing to Reddit’s Android platform from New York. Self-taught on Android since 2013, he has shipped Play Store apps, taught Android courses at Carnegie Mellon and for industry clients, and often speaks at Android conferences. He blends strong object-oriented and functional programming skills with practical expertise in Kotlin, DI (Dagger), RxJava, testing (Espresso/Unit), and web API integration. Andrew also mentors engineers and has led projects and teams as a project manager at SmartThings, demonstrating both hands-on coding and delivery ownership. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced the popular DiscreteSeekBar component to improve theming and efficiency—showing attention to UX polish and performance. Off the clock he channels his creativity into music and dance, which he credits for keeping his presentation and teaching style engaging.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Pomfret SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Stackoverflow
8,366reputation
875kreached
81answers
13questions
textview
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java
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padding
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android-jetpack-compose
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android-fragments
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android-emulator
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Github Skills (23)
kotlin10
ui-components10
textview10
ui-design10
java10
javas10
uid10
front-end-development10
customisation10
android10
colours10
theming9
android-widget9
android-fragments9
padding9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AnderWeb/discreteSeekBar
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 20 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the `DiscreteSeekBar` component, adding new functionalities related to theming and customization. The contributions involved introducing methods to programmatically set the thumb and scrubber colors, as well as integrating a new string transformer for value display. The user also refactored the component to improve object creation efficiency during color changes.
AOrobator/SceneRecon
Feb 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 1 push in 2 years 2 months
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