Hicham Boushaba
Android Engineer at Automattic
Morocco
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Top SchoolHicham Boushaba is an Android engineer with nine years of experience building and leading mobile projects, currently at Automattic where he contributes to the open-source Simplenote Android app. He has held senior Android roles at IBM, Heetch and Atos, bringing both hands-on implementation and technical leadership across consumer and enterprise apps. His background in telecom core networks (Huawei, INWI) gives him a strong systems perspective that informs reliable, network-aware mobile designs. Notable open-source contributions include improving Simplenote’s checklist, search tokenization and tablet UI behaviors, reflecting attention to UX detail and cross-device consistency. Based in Morocco, he blends deep Android UI/UX refinements with pragmatic engineering from large-scale telecom and software environments. Colleagues value him for shipping clean, maintainable features that bridge platform quirks and real-world usage.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MP, MP at Classes préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles d'Ingénieurs, lycée Omar Ibn Al KhattabElève Ingénieur, Technologies d'Informations et Communications, Elève Ingénieur, Technologies d'Informations et Communications at Institut National de Postes et Telecommunications
Arabic, French, English
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
mobile-development10
android10
java10
kotlin9
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
internet-connection6
android-navigation6
xamarin-forms6
xamarin6
android-fragments6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/simplenote-android
Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
Simplenote for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:43 reviews, 72 commits, 25 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Hicham primarily contributed to the Android Simplenote application by modifying the SimplenoteEditText class to enhance the checklist functionality. They also refactored the search functionality, addressing hyphenated terms and exclusion logic in the SearchTokenizer class. Further contributions included implementing tablet-specific UI behaviors, such as selecting the next or previous note after a trash action and refining the application's theme and user interface.
androidsimplenote
hichamboushaba/SuspendActivityResult
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
A lightweight library for requesting and consuming Activity Results using coroutines.
Contributions:6 reviews, 48 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
kotlincoroutinesandroidactivity-results
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