Jason Monk
Lead Engineer at Level Home Inc.
Littleton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Monk is a Lead Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in Android and Kotlin-focused mobile engineering and user experience. Based in Littleton, MA, he blends hands-on development with product-minded UX improvements, having contributed notable enhancements to widely used Android projects like the Trebuchet Launcher and the AOSP support libraries. His open-source work shows deep familiarity with LauncherProvider internals, preference UI patterns, and theming, reflecting an ability to ship both platform-level fixes and consumer-facing features. A University of Maine alumnus with MS in Computer Engineering, he pairs strong academic foundations with practical leadership at Level Home Inc., where he drives engineering outcomes and mentors teams. An uncommon strength is his track record of refactoring core components to improve selectability, theming, and intent resolution—small changes that materially improve navigation and reliability for end users.
13 years of coding experience
B.S, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.68, B.S, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.68 at University of Maine
Github Skills (15)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aosp-mirror/platform_frameworks_support
Oct 2015 - Jan 2019
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:384 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily worked on modifying the preference and RecyclerView components within the Android Support Library. They refactored the divider implementation in the Preference component to align with the selectability state rather than the enabled state. Further, they integrated a DropDownPreference component and resolved API breakages, supporting device default themes. Their contributions include UI and UX improvements by making the preferences easier to navigate and theming support.
CyanogenMod/android_packages_apps_Trebuchet
Mar 2014 - Jan 2015
Trebuchet Launcher
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jason implemented features within the Trebuchet Launcher, focusing on adding support for URI favorites and resolve groups. These changes involved modifying the launcher's provider to handle new types of shortcuts that resolve intents specified by a URI. Furthermore, the user integrated resolving groups that attempt to add shortcuts until one is successful. The modifications are apparent in LauncherProvider.java.
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