Fernando Giraldez
Android Engineer at GoDaddy
Utrera, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolFernando Giraldez is a seasoned Android engineer with 13 years of experience building mobile products across startups and large companies, currently shaping Android experiences at GoDaddy from his base in Andalusia, Spain. He champions clean architecture, testing and best practices, and has driven Kotlin and reactive adoption in teams such as Tuenti and Telefónica Innovation. A practical open-source contributor to the prominent Arrow project, he implemented core types like Ior and improved CI reliability—bringing functional programming patterns into Kotlin on Android. He co-founded a mobile startup and has a track record shipping apps across platforms, from consumer apps to communication products, reflecting both product and engineering instincts. Continuously learning, he’s focused now on applying functional techniques to Android architectures to make codebases safer and more composable.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico Superior en Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Informáticas de Gestión, Informática, Desarrollo, Técnico Superior en Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Informáticas de Gestión, Informática, Desarrollo at IES Nervión
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Github Skills (16)
kotlin10
functional-programming10
monads10
arrow-keys10
typeclass10
arrows10
arrow-js10
functional-programming-language9
code-coverage9
android-studio6
google-app-engine6
robolectric6
android-fragments6
android6
synchronization6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
arrow-kt/arrow
Mar 2017 - Sep 2019
Λrrow - The perfect companion for your Kotlin journey - Inspired by functional, data-oriented and concurrent programming
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 52 commits, 38 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily contributed to the development of the `Ior` type and associated functionalities. Their work included implementing the `Ior` type, moving related code into specific packages, and adapting existing tests. Furthermore, the user addressed issues by fixing `Id` equality and removing incremental compilation from the project to fix CI builds. They also implemented, and added combinators to OptionT.
kotlin-dslfunctional-programmingtypeclassesarrowfor-comprehension
ffgiraldez/reactive-your-android
May 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 5 pushes in 5 months
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