Jacob Applin
Android Engineer, POS at Square
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Applin is an Android engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building point-of-sale software at Square out of Old Toronto. He progressed from junior developer to staff-level roles at ecobee and led Android teams at Rakuten Kobo, demonstrating strong hands-on expertise across consumer and embedded mobile platforms. Jacob excels at shipping production-grade Android features and scaling mobile codebases for hardware-integrated products. His Computer Engineering background from the University of Waterloo underpins a pragmatic approach to system design and cross-functional collaboration. Notably, his career reflects rapid technical growth and repeated selection for leadership on teams that bridge device firmware and user-facing Android applications.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (74)
kotlin-library10
state-machine10
kotlin-multiplatform10
apollographql10
dependency-injection10
compiler-plugin10
java10
android10
kotlin10
dagger10
caching10
injection10
multiplatform10
strongly-typed10
anvil10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
japplin/workflow-kotlin
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
A Swift and Kotlin library for making composable state machines, and UIs driven by those state machines.
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 comment in 3 months
machineskotlinswiftioscomposable
japplin/metro
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
A multiplatform dependency injection framework for Kotlin
Contributions:8 pushes, 6 branches in 25 days
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