Artak Kalantarian is a seasoned software architect and founder with over two decades of hands-on engineering experience and 11 years focused on mobile and Android development. He leads peaceofmind.ai, a Berkeley SkyDeck–backed startup delivering remote health and behavior monitoring for older adults, and has founded multiple software ventures including Burly Marmot and Suart Software. A long-time Android native expert since 2009, he has shipped apps for hundreds of millions of users, contributed to MapLibre’s Android SDK modernization, and delivered projects for Disney Research, Microsoft Bing for Android, and Amazon where he re-architected the email platform for massive scale and reliability. His deep systems background traces back to core work on Internet Explorer and WPF at Microsoft, giving him rare fluency across low-level rendering, media, and high-scale backend services. Known for pragmatic architecture and code-quality improvements, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade reliability and a track record of turning research-grade ideas into widely used products.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at State Engineering University of Armenia
MapLibre Native - Interactive vector tile maps for iOS, Android and other platforms.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:45 reviews, 10 commits, 30 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Artak primarily contributed to the Android SDK component of the MapLibre Native project. Their work focused on fixing JavaDoc errors, updating the Android Gradle Plugin and dependencies, and converting existing Java files to Kotlin. This involved modifications to core classes within the SDK, including `MapView`, and updating the test application. This shows a focus on code quality, dependency management, and modernization of the codebase.
The open alternative to Mapbox GL Native. SDKs for iOS, Android and other platforms
Contributions:6 PRs, 22 pushes, 6 branches in 5 days
mapboxmapbox-glios-androidplatformssdks
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