Breton Fears
Manager Solutions Architecture at TELUS Digital
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBreton Fears is a solutions architecture manager and former full-stack engineer with nine years focused on mobile and TV client applications and a longer track record in backend services and QA. Based in Charlottesville, he rose through engineering ranks at WillowTree—contributing hands-on to Android projects like the Spruce animation library—before moving into managerial architecture at TELUS Digital. Breton blends practical engineering (Android, Ruby on Rails, testing automation) with leadership in delivering client applications and platform services. His background in game design and early IT support gives him a pragmatic, user-centered approach to product engineering and cross-team collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Game Design and Development, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Game Design and Development at Collins College
English
Github Skills (10)
javas10
gradlew10
animation10
android10
java10
gradle10
build-automation9
android-testing9
android-test9
kotlin8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
willowtreeapps/spruce-android
Feb 2017 - Feb 2021
Spruce Animation Library
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:3 releases, 8 reviews, 192 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Breton primarily contributed to the Android library "Spruce Animation Library" by adding project files, including Gradle build scripts, example instrumentation tests, and unit tests. Their work focused on setting up the basic structure of an Android project, including ProGuard rules and testing frameworks, as well as porting a new animation library to the project, creating a builder pattern for animating ViewGroup children, and including example app foundation with UI components. The commits suggest a focus on building the core functionality and framework for the animation library within an Android environment.
animation
bret-fears/CriminalIntent
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:26 PRs, 14 pushes, 14 branches in 12 days
kotlinjavanerdandroid
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