Flávio Faria
Principal Android Engineer at Turo
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolFlávio Faria is a Principal Android Engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable, production-grade mobile systems for companies like Turo, Tonal, Shopify and Zwift from Toronto. He combines deep Android expertise—from low-level sockets, Bluetooth and custom hardware integrations to over-the-air update flows and secure TLS networking—with a track record of leading cross-team projects that increase fault tolerance and product growth. As an early mobile founder and hands-on engineer he shipped consumer apps that reached hundreds of thousands of users and led mobile teams through pivots and complex integrations. He maintains practical open-source chops (authoring the KenBurnsView Android library) and advocates for engineering hygiene, type safety and tooling to keep large codebases healthy. Notably, he’s driven vendor-agnostic hardware strategies and payment-focused libraries that shape multi-year roadmaps while still contributing code-level fixes and sample apps.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Systems & Computer Engineering, MSc Systems & Computer Engineering at Federal University of Rio de JaneiroB.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at UniRuy Wyden
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (17)
image-viewer10
java10
android-library10
javas10
android10
android-imageview10
android-resources9
android-view9
location9
orientation6
listview6
sensor6
android-canvas6
android-layout6
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
flavioarfaria/KenBurnsView
Mar 2014 - Aug 2019
Android ImageViews animated by Ken Burns Effect
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:101 commits, 8 PRs, 22 pushes in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Flávio appears to be the primary developer of the KenBurnsView Android library. Their commits focus on implementing core features and functionalities for animating image views using the Ken Burns effect. This includes the initial implementation, adding support for animation control (pause/resume), incorporating transition listeners, fixing scaling issues, and improving overall smoothness. The user also contributed to the sample application, showcasing the library's features.
animationanimatedandroidkotlinken
flavioarfaria/Catalog
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Generate type-safe, user-friendly extensions to resolve Android resources.
Contributions:11 reviews, 80 commits, 23 PRs in 5 months
resolveandroidtype-safekotlinextensions
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