Brenton Bade
Android Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrenton Bade is an Android engineer with 11 years of experience building consumer mobile products at scale, currently working on Android at Google from San Francisco. He has driven UI infrastructure and design system efforts—most recently leading Jetpack Compose migrations and a Server Driven UI platform at Robinhood. His background spans startups and large tech firms (Lyft, Fitbit, Facebook) where he shipped features from onboarding flows and geotracking to driver-facing functionality, often as the sole or lead Android engineer. Comfortable across the full mobile stack, he pairs Kotlin, RxJava, Dagger, and modern Android tooling with pragmatic server-side work when needed. Notably, he’s tackled both product-facing UX challenges and low-level performance/startup-time improvements, demonstrating a blend of design sensitivity and systems thinking. Outside of core engineering he’s shipped quirky prototypes (BLE-assisted checkin, a “dirty dish” detector) that reveal a curiosity for practical, playful solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at DePaul University
French
Github Skills (33)
kotlin10
jetpack10
leakcanary10
compose10
java10
android-library10
android10
declarative-ui10
jetpack-compose10
memory-leak-detection10
kotlin-android10
android-applications7
debug6
firebase5
chrome5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bbade/js
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
bbade/compose-samples
May 2024 - May 2024
Official Jetpack Compose samples.
Contributions:8 pushes in 21 days
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