Chris Woodward
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Woodward is a Senior Software Engineer in San Jose with a decade of experience building Android developer tooling and release infrastructure at Google, following prior leadership roles improving mobile build systems at Square. He focuses on Android developer experience and performance-sensitive libraries and has a track record shipping internal Play Store gateways and tooling for large-scale app releases. Chris is an active contributor to Android open-source tooling—most notably refining the widely used okbuck Gradle-to-Buck plugin with Kotlin and Robolectric updates—bringing practical build-system expertise. Comfortable operating between developer productivity, release engineering, and platform libraries, he combines deep Android internals knowledge with a pragmatic engineering approach honed across startups and major tech companies.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Cypress CollegeFullerton CollegeDowney High SchoolUniversity of California, Irvine
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
kotlin10
buck10
gradlew10
android10
gradle10
robolectric9
gradle-plugin9
android-sdk9
javas8
java8
image6
eclipse6
genymotion6
virtualbox6
sms6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
uber/okbuck
Feb 2017 - Jul 2018
OkBuck is a gradle plugin that lets developers utilize the Buck build system on a gradle project.
Role in this project:
Android Developer
Android DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 14 PRs, 53 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributes to the `okbuck` project, which is a Gradle plugin for the Buck build system in Android projects. Their commits focus on refining the plugin's functionality, including debugging, and adding support for the latest Robolectric API versions. The user implemented Kotlin Android Extensions and addressed a null pointer exception related to NDK compilation. They also refactored the Kotlin library locations and improved existing project configurations.
buckgradlegroovygradle-projectandroid
cwoodwar6/okbuck
Feb 2017 - Aug 2018
OkBuck is a gradle plugin that lets developers utilize the Buck build system on a gradle project.
Contributions:61 pushes, 29 branches in 1 year 6 months
buckgradlegroovygradle-projectbuild-system
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