Brandon Nalls
Software Development Engineer at Meta
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Nalls is a seasoned Software Development Engineer in San Diego with 11 years of experience building mobile and web products at Meta, Twitter, and Amazon Music. He blends deep Android expertise with full‑stack skills—Java, PHP/MySQL, Linux, web frontends and graphics tools—to ship end‑to‑end features and platformize reusable solutions. At Meta he led 0→1 initiatives and grew a new product to 100k+ DAUs, leveraging data, custom metrics, and machine learning to improve core experiences and ad value. Earlier entrepreneurial work includes founding FindMyI.org, an early cross‑platform stolen‑phone tracking service that protected 130k+ users before native platform offerings existed. He contributes to Android open source projects (notably bug fixes and refactors for RootCloak2) and is known for pragmatic problem‑solving, code quality, and a strong Unix/Linux background. Ambitious about moving into project leadership, he pairs hands‑on engineering with a relentless focus on shipping polished, measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Virginia Tech
English
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
xposed-framework10
sharedpreferences10
mobile-development10
native-android10
android10
android-development10
java10
debug9
debugging9
actionlistener6
user-interface6
swing6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
devadvance/rootcloak
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Open source module for Xposed Framework that hides root from specific apps
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs in 5 days
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily worked on bug fixes and improvements for the RootCloak2 Xposed module. Their contributions included fixing issues related to debug settings, shared preferences, and the loading spinner for the installed app list. The user also refactored code related to shared preferences and cleaned up redundant code.
xposedhidesandroid-frameworkandroidroot
bnalls33/MockMockLocations
Oct 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 2 years 3 months
xposedmock-locationssettingxposed-moduledetecting
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