Jay Palacio
Android Engineer at Dropbox
Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Palacio is an Android Engineer at Dropbox with nine years of professional experience and a background in aviation maintenance leadership. After 12 years fixing and assuring safety on MH-60T helicopters in the U.S. Coast Guard—leading deployments that saved lives and interdicted millions in narcotics—he transitioned to software via a Galvanize immersive bootcamp. He builds Android apps using Kotlin and Java, having moved from an Android apprenticeship at Dropbox into his current engineering role. Jay’s operational discipline and QA mindset inform his approach to testing, reliability, and safety-critical thinking in mobile development. Based in Tennessee, he pairs hands-on engineering with proven leadership under pressure, bringing uncommon real-world systems and inspection rigor to product-quality decisions.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Immersive Bootcamp, Computer Science, Software Engineering Immersive Bootcamp, Computer Science at Galvanize IncAssociate of Science - AS, Chemistry, Associate of Science - AS, Chemistry at Broward Community CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Food Science, cum laude, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Food Science, cum laude at University of Florida
Spanish, English
Github Skills (95)
dropbox-api10
dropbox-sdk10
api10
sketchup10
wsl210
logback9
linux9
sdk9
android-gradle-plugin9
gradle-plugin9
generator9
shutdown9
java9
dropbox9
gradle9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
devPalacio/trello-github-etl
Jan 2022 - Apr 2024
aj's stuff
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches, 2 issues in 2 years 3 months
devPalacio/devPalacio
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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