Francisco Novella is a Lead Developer with 13 years of experience crafting user-centered web platforms and leading teams for clients like JP Morgan, PWC and BBVA. Based in Amsterdam, he blends engineering rigor with a multimedia arts background to deliver innovative, visually strong UX and performant front-ends. He has driven large migrations and modernized stacks—rebuilding platforms in React, introducing CI and end-to-end testing, and shaping API-first integrations for client onboarding. An active open-source contributor to notable Android tooling (e.g., android-maven-plugin and HockeySDK), he improves developer workflows and mobile update mechanisms. Colleagues know him as a hands-on technical leader who mentors peers, tackles complex system design, and pairs aesthetic sensibility with practical engineering.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura en Artes Multimediales, Licenciatura en Artes Multimediales at Universidad Nacional de las Artes
Ingeniero, Sistemas, Ingeniero, Sistemas at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Maven Plugin for Android Application development and more
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:5 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Francisco focused on modifying and updating the Android manifest file and its related processes within the Android Maven plugin. These changes involved updating uses-sdk configuration to modify minimum, maximum, and target SDK versions. The user also added support for these uses-sdk changes through configuration and included test cases to validate the changes.
HockeyApp was retired and the SDKs are deprecated. Please use App Center instead.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:10 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Francisco primarily focused on modifying and enhancing the HockeyApp Android SDK. Their contributions include refactoring the update manager, adding new methods, and making the update dialog optional. They also extended the UpdateManagerListener to allow access to update information outside the HockeySDK. Additionally, the user addressed code quality and maintainability by extracting string constants and fixing Javadoc.
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