Bao-long Nguyen-trong
Staff Software Engineer, Android at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolBao-long Nguyen-trong is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in Android with 17+ years of professional experience and over two decades building end-to-end systems from backend services to mobile apps. He combines hands-on Android engineering with technical program leadership, having led platform teams at Inkling, Basis/Intel, and now LinkedIn where he contributes to the flagship Android app. Early mobile work spans WAP, J2ME, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile, and he maintained a long-running engagement with Android open-source projects—contributing bug fixes and reliability features to the well-known Thunderbird for Android client. Known for a strong product sensibility and business awareness, he designs extensible, maintainable solutions that drive high user adoption and measurable impact. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs agile delivery discipline with deep mobile expertise and a knack for shipping reliable, user-focused software.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Master's Degree at École Supérieure d'Électricité
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Github Skills (14)
e-mail10
communications10
sendmail10
android10
send-email10
java9
android-developer9
android-developers9
javas9
android-studio6
namespaces6
php6
android-gradle-plugin6
gradle6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
thunderbird/thunderbird-android
Dec 2008 - Mar 2011
Thunderbird for Android – Open Source Email App for Android (fka K-9 Mail)
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:149 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bao-long primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements for the Thunderbird for Android application. Their work focused on addressing reported issues, such as fixing notification problems, resolving data loss during email retrieval from POP3 servers, and improving keyboard shortcut functionality. Additionally, the user implemented new features like the addition of more keyboard shortcuts and the integration of a background sync mechanism using wake locks for enhanced reliability.
mailemailcommunicationandroidmozilla
brashsquad/SalesforceNow
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:63 commits in 1 month
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