Eric Decanini
Co-Founder & CEO at Candyspace
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolEric Decanini is a Senior Android Developer and founder with nine years of experience building polished mobile experiences for clients like ITV and Global Radio and shipping cross-platform products. As Co-Founder and CEO of Repostify he’s leveraging Kotlin Multiplatform to solve creators’ cross-posting pain points, delivering Android, iOS, web and server code from a shared codebase. He’s led Android teams at Candyspace and contributed significant UI and auth-flow improvements to the popular Element Android open-source client. Eric started building apps at 15—his early Firebase-backed school project won the Essex Digital Awards—and that long curiosity shows in his focus on developer-friendly, maintainable architecture. He also creates tech content on TikTok and is expanding educational work on YouTube, blending product, engineering and audience insight. Based in Bologna, he combines hands-on implementation with startup leadership and a knack for turning creator problems into scalable software.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Colchester Sixth FormSecondary School, Secondary School at Plume School
English, French, Filipino
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Github Skills (11)
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ui-design9
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
element-hq/element-android
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
A Matrix collaboration client for Android.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:229 reviews, 608 commits, 123 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Eric's contributions center around implementing and refactoring features related to the Element Android application's user interface and functionality. They added a "forceLoginFallback" debug feature and integrated feature flags within the registration process. Further work included refactoring the FtueAuthVariant, adding functionality related to handling user authentication. The user interacted heavily with core components to the application’s registration and login flow.
androidmatrixelement-android
ericdecanini/MockWebTest
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 5 months
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