Andrew Reitz
Senior Software Engineer at onXmaps, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Reitz is a Senior Software Engineer based in Minneapolis with 13 years of experience specializing in Android and Kotlin, delivering production-grade apps for startups and Fortune 500s like Instacart, American Express, and Target. He blends deep platform expertise with pragmatic engineering—optimizing build systems, improving app performance, and shipping user-focused features such as Target’s Android Drive. A regular open-source contributor, Andrew has improved tooling and libraries used by Android developers, including significant contributions to the groovy-android-gradle-plugin and widely used beacon libraries. He runs a consulting practice (Ghost Apps) and has held hands-on senior roles that balance individual contributions and technical leadership. Known for making build and tooling improvements that accelerate teams, he often surfaces subtle compatibility fixes (e.g., Gradle and annotation processing integrations) that quietly save engineering time. Trained at the University of Minnesota Duluth, he combines long-term Android focus with a practical, systems-minded approach to mobile engineering.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Minnesota Duluth
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Github Skills (24)
android-gradle-plugin10
mobile-development10
groovy10
rxjavafx10
android-sdk10
android-development10
java10
javas10
android10
rxjava10
gradle-plugin10
logging10
gradlew10
gradle10
annotations9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
groovy/groovy-android-gradle-plugin
Sep 2014 - Mar 2020
A Gradle plugin to support the Groovy language for building Android apps
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 103 commits, 121 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Groovy-Android Gradle plugin, enhancing its functionality and compatibility. They added Groovy source set support, updated test configurations to use consistent build tools and plugin versions, and fixed issues related to Gradle 2.12. Further contributions included updates to the plugin version, Android build tools, and compile SDK, along with general documentation improvements and plugin renaming. Significant work was done to integrate annotation processing and enable Groovy to compile with Kotlin references.
android-appandroid-appsgradle-plugingroovy
RadiusNetworks/android-ibeacon-service
May 2014 - May 2014
An Android library providing APIs to interact with iBeacons
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:18 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Andrew's commits primarily focus on modifying and extending the Android iBeacon service library. Contributions include adding debug logging capabilities, updating build script unit tests, and adding the Gradle wrapper for build automation. These changes enhance the library's functionality and improve the development workflow. The commits demonstrate a focus on core library components and Android platform integration.
android-library
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