Summary
Blake Oliveira is an experienced Android engineer with 11 years building mobile apps and a track record at Square, Rover, and Redfin, now working full-time self-employed from Seattle. He specializes in pragmatic, production-ready Android architectures (MVVM, Dagger 2, RxJava, Kotlin Coroutines) and has deep hands-on experience with networking, maps, sensors (magnetometer, accelerometer, GPS), WorkManager, and polished UI/animation work. Blake's mobile-first journey began with a childhood fascination for the Motorola Droid, which blossomed into a career focused on shipping features you can literally hold in your pocket. Equally comfortable optimizing image loading (Picasso/Glide) and crafting reliable background work, he blends engineering rigor with an eye for user-facing detail.
11 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at Seattle Pacific University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Western Washington University