Carl Rice
Founding Technical Staff at Phota Labs
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarl Rice is a founding technical staff engineer and mobile-native builder with 11 years of experience creating polished Android apps and design systems for startups and high-growth products. He has shipped consumer-scale features at Pinterest (contributing to image loading, staggered grid, and analytics used on over a billion installs) and led Android efforts across health, video therapy, and micromobility products, emphasizing reliability, low crash rates, and production-friendly architecture. Known for shipping fast from zero-to-launch, he blends product empathy with pragmatic engineering—building reusable design systems, multi-provider video stacks, and offline-first experiences. Now at Phota Labs, he’s applying that mobile-first craftsmanship to personalized visual GenAI, bringing a rare combination of imaging, UI polish, and systems thinking to small-screen experiences.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia at University of the Arts
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
android-intent6
compression6
avcapturesession6
ios6
opengl-es6
android6
intent-filter6
java6
Github contributions (5)
carlrice/500e-can-bus
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
carlrice/test
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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