Gian Valentino
Android Kotlin Multiplatform Tech Lead
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolGian Valentino is an Android and Kotlin Multiplatform tech lead based in Tokyo with 10 years of experience building cross-platform mobile apps and driving engineering adoption. He has led the first company-wide KMP project at Yumemi, mentored teams of 10+ developers, and presented Kotlin Multiplatform MVI and state machines at DroidKaigi 2023. A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign MS graduate with a strong academic record, he combines product-minded engineering with hands-on architecture work across retail, finance, and consumer apps. At teamLab he pioneered KMP templates blending Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI and regularly ran internal seminars to accelerate adoption. Comfortable across the full mobile lifecycle—research, prototyping, shipping and mentoring—he brings both startup and enterprise experience from Tokyo and international research collaborations. He’s notable for turning academic insight (robotics and gamification research) into practical, production-grade mobile solutions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad, Study Abroad at Kanazawa Institute of TechnologyUniversity of TokyoInternational Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma, 3.96, International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma, 3.96 at International School of Beijing ShunyiMaster of Computer Science (MSC), Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Computer Science (MSC), Computer Science, 4.0 at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
ride3
react2
redux2
react-native1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
wasabi-muffin/github-sample-project
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:30 reviews, 211 PRs, 218 pushes in 16 days
fika-tech/Macaron
Aug 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 release, 17 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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