Anton Spaans
Senior Staff Engineer Mobile at Cloaked
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnton Spaans is a Senior Staff Mobile Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-impact native and cross-platform mobile products and leading large engineering teams. He’s known for defining Android technical strategy and architectures, driving measurable business outcomes—such as lifting conversion by 27% and growing apps to 10M+ users—and for accelerating time-to-market on complex projects. A hands-on leader and mentor, he introduced Kotlin Multiplatform and GenAI coding assistants to boost developer velocity, and has deep experience in performance-sensitive domains from IoT/Thread security to remote rendering for VR. Anton also contributes to Android open-source tooling (notably ListViewAnimations) and often acts as the go-to engineer who adds clarity, aligns teams to business goals, and turns ambiguous problems into pragmatic, testable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
High School (VWO) High School (VWO), High School (VWO) High School (VWO) at CSG Jan ArentszMasters Information & Computer Sciences, Masters Information & Computer Sciences at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English, Spanish, German, French
Github Skills (4)
java10
javas10
android10
ui-design8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nhaarman/ListViewAnimations
Sep 2013 - Nov 2013
[DEPRECATED] An Android library which allows developers to easily add animations to ListView items
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:11 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily contributed to an Android library focused on adding animations to ListView items. Their work included implementing a DynamicListView component, which allowed for drag-and-drop reordering of list items. They addressed issues related to swipe gestures, including preventing drag-and-drop behavior when swiping, and introduced the ability for custom drawing of the "hover cell" during drag operations. Further contributions involved fixes for ContextualUndoViews, particularly with recycling issues and animation behavior.
android-library
IntrepidPursuits/kotlin-ble-idiom
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
An example of a Kotlin based idiom allowing to configure communication with BLE devices
Contributions:4 commits, 8 PRs, 69 pushes in 5 months
kotlinkotlin-dslbluetooth-low-energykotlin-office-hours
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