Diego Pérez
Engineering Manager at Google
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorDiego Pérez is an experienced engineering manager based in London with 11 years of hands-on and leadership experience building mobile platforms and developer tooling. Currently leading engineering at Google, he combines deep Android expertise (Java/C/C++, Android Studio plugin contributions) with systems skills in Unix/Linux, scripting, web technologies and project planning. His background spans startups and large tech—roles at Badoo, Yahoo! and Ericsson—where he led architecture and mobile engineering teams. Notably, he has contributed to the JetBrains Android plugin, improving IDE UI behavior and Material 3 compatibility, reflecting a focus on developer experience as well as product quality.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish, English
Github Skills (8)
kotlin10
uid10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
android-development10
intellij-idea9
plugin9
plugin-development9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/android
Sep 2014 - Oct 2021
Android Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. This repository is a subset of https://git.jetbrains.org/?p=idea/android.git cut according to GitHub file size limitations.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:4828 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Diego contributed to the Android plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, focusing on improving the user interface and functionality of the Android development environment. Their commits addressed issues related to the display of UI elements in scrollable surfaces, ensuring accurate positioning of UI interactions. Additionally, they improved the Live Literals feature and updated the code to be compatible with Material 3. These changes indicate a focus on refining the user experience and maintaining compatibility with the latest Android SDK and tooling.
file-sizeandroid-studiointellij-ideaandroid-pluginandroid
diegopl/intellij-community
Jan 2018 - Jan 2019
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
intellij-ideacommunity-editionintellij-pluginjavaintellij
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