Danielle Vass
Android Engineer at Spotify
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDanielle Vass is an Android engineer with 12 years’ experience building mobile apps across startups and scale-ups, currently developing Android at Spotify after stints at Trainline, Bitrise, Pusher and Facebook. She’s an active open-source maintainer—founding the original Android Bootstrap library and contributing security-focused work to notable projects like pusher-websocket-java—who also speaks on publishing libraries at Droidcon NYC. Beyond product work she co-founded Teach Programming CIC and teaches Android development to undergraduates, reflecting a strong commitment to mentoring and widening access to tech. Based in England and planning a move to London, she blends hands-on SDK and app engineering with community-led education and developer advocacy.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc(Hons), Computing, 2:1, BSc(Hons), Computing, 2:1 at Plymouth UniversityCB22x The Ancient Greek Hero, Pass, CB22x The Ancient Greek Hero, Pass at HarvardXGCSE, Maths, English, Science etc, B or above, GCSE, Maths, English, Science etc, B or above at Highworth WarnefordA-Level, Computing, Maths, Psychology, C, A-Level, Computing, Maths, Psychology, C at New College, Swindon
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Github Skills (6)
secret-management10
javas10
encryption10
java10
testing9
exception-handling8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pusher/pusher-websocket-java
Mar 2020 - Jan 2022
Pusher Channels client library for Java targeting general Java and Android
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 63 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Danielle primarily focused on implementing and improving features related to private encrypted channels within the Java client library. Their contributions included adding a `PrivateEncryptedChannel`, enhancing its security by implementing secret management, and ensuring proper exception handling. They also made various code improvements, such as refactoring methods and integrating Base64 decoding, to optimize the functionality of encrypted channel communication. The user also added tests to ensure the reliability of the implemented features.
androidjava
codebar/ios-tutorials
Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
📱 Resources for our iOS workshops
Contributions:22 commits, 17 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 10 months
ios
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