Herman Liang is an Android team lead with 12 years of mobile engineering experience, currently driving Rakuten Mart’s Android product and previously architecting Rakuten Super Point Screen. He combines hands-on app development for both Android and iOS with people leadership, managing small cross-functional teams to deliver polished consumer shopping and rewards experiences. A longtime contributor to the Parse Android SDK, he’s comfortable fixing deep SDK bugs, writing tests, and improving platform integrations—skills that surface in robust offline/installation handling and manifest-driven configuration. Trained as a PhD-level biomedical engineer, Herman brings a research-informed approach to problem solving and system design, blending rigour with pragmatic delivery. Based in New Taipei, Taiwan, he is known for mentoring engineers, documenting technical architectures, and continuously exploring new mobile technologies to improve performance and UX.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomedical/Medical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University
Master's degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Master's degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at China Medical University (TW)
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 15 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Herman primarily contributed to the Android SDK for the Parse Platform. Their commits focused on bug fixes and improvements related to saving Parse installations, particularly handling scenarios where installations are deleted from the server or when there are missing required fields. They also worked on updating code, including fixing typos, optimizing code, and integrating the ability to set server URLs via the manifest, including writing tests for these changes.
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year
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