Jamie Lynch
Software Engineer at Embrace
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJamie Lynch is a Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on Android experience, having worked on mobile SDKs and instrumentation since the Gingerbread era. Based in Manchester, he has shipped platform-critical work at Bugsnag and now contributes to observability and mobile tooling at Embrace, with notable contributions to Bugsnag's React Native Android bridge and core Android SDK features like Breadcrumbs and session payloads. He combines front-end mobile UI craftsmanship—demonstrated through Android-Bootstrap components—with deep SDK design and testing discipline. Comfortable across Java/Kotlin Android layers and React Native integration, he also works with OpenTelemetry-style telemetry patterns. His background in biochemistry and contemporary science gives him a curious, experimental approach to debugging and reliability engineering.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Contemporary Science, Geology/Earth Science, General, Pass, Certificate of Contemporary Science, Geology/Earth Science, General, Pass at The Open UniversityA-Levels, A-Levels at Exeter CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc hons), Biochemistry, 2:1, Bachelor of Science (BSc hons), Biochemistry, 2:1 at University of BathGCSEs, GCSEs at Okehampton College
English
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Github Skills (28)
unit-testing10
error-reporting10
ios10
react-native10
mobile-development10
android-sdk10
ui-design10
android-development10
java10
android-developer10
javas10
uid10
front-end-development10
android10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
bugsnag/bugsnag-android
Jul 2017 - Jan 2022
BugSnag crash monitoring and reporting tool for Android apps
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:68 releases, 468 reviews, 2902 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jamie primarily addressed review feedback in existing code, making updates to classes such as `Error`, `Session`, and `Breadcrumb`. They also implemented new features, such as a wrapper class for `Breadcrumb` and added the ability to capture the process name to event payloads, which showcases their contributions to the core functionality of the Android SDK. Furthermore, the user demonstrates testing skills by updating various test suites and test cases throughout the codebase.
ndkerror-monitoringexceptionsmonitoringerror-stack-trace
Bearded-Hen/Android-Bootstrap
Sep 2015 - Jul 2017
Bootstrap style widgets for Android, with Glyph Icons
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:103 commits, 9 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jamie implemented several UI components using the AndroidBootstrap library, creating example code to demonstrate their functionality. The primary focus was on the BootstrapButton, BootstrapLabel and BootstrapProgressBar widgets. They demonstrated familiarity with theming, sizing, and the creation of custom styles within the library, showcasing an understanding of the library's APIs and underlying structure.
androidwidgetsglyphglyph-iconsbootstrap
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