Colin Lee
Principal Mobile Architect at webAI
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolColin Lee is a Principal Mobile Architect with 12 years of experience designing and shipping high-impact mobile apps and SDKs, currently leading mobile architecture at webAI from Saint Paul, MN. He has driven major rewrites and greenfield launches—most notably leading Firefox for Android frontend work at Mozilla and spearheading a Kotlin Multiplatform strategy at Meetup—while also building on-device and on-premise AI mobile integrations in Swift and Kotlin. His hands-on background spans Android system-level work (GeckoView/WebView renderer selection, crash fixes, A/B testing) to build-and-release automation for large apps, and he’s successfully taken products from solo-built betas to acquisition. A pragmatic mentor and remote team leader, he combines deep mobile engineering craft with product-focused delivery and a surprising literary foundation (BA in English) that informs clear technical communication.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
St Thomas AcademyB.A. English, B.A. English at University of Florida
Portuguese, Spanish, English, German
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Github contributions (5)
mozilla-mobile/focus-android
Jul 2018 - Jan 2020
⚠️ Firefox Focus (Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:59 releases, 122 commits, 391 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily contributed to the development of the Firefox Focus Android application, focusing on features and bug fixes related to the rendering engine and user interface. Their work included implementing renderer selection between GeckoView and WebView, addressing issues with GeckoView activation, and resolving crashes. The user also worked on A/B testing, settings adjustments, and ensuring compatibility across different Android devices.
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mozilla-mobile/fenix
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
⚠️ Fenix (Firefox for Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:8 releases, 194 commits, 659 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Colin's commits primarily focus on automating the build, signing, and archiving of Android APKs for the Fenix project. They implemented scripts to zip align, sign, and archive APKs using tools like zipalign and apksigner. Furthermore, they modified the build configuration files (Gradle) to improve dependency management and integrate other build-related automation tools. Additionally, the user wrote a python script that gets a token for signing.
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