Jim Baca
Senior Director Of Engineering, Mobile at Jabra Hearing
California, United States
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Top SchoolJim Baca is a seasoned mobile engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling Android platforms for high-traffic consumer products. Currently Senior Director of Engineering, Mobile at Jabra Hearing, he combines hands-on architecture and CI/CD modernization with cross-disciplinary collaboration across product, design, audiology, and hardware teams. Previously he led Android SDK efforts at Disney Streaming and BAMTech, delivering cross-platform streaming infrastructure used by millions and improving test and release velocity. Jim is pragmatic about tradeoffs, uses metrics to drive technical investment, and has championed AI/ML and Bluetooth integrations to unlock new user and clinical experiences. He mentors engineering teams to own quality and delivery while remaining deeply involved in critical architecture decisions. Based in California with a CS degree from UC Riverside, he also curates an RxJava-focused newsletter for Android developers.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
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Github Skills (51)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
desertjim/ascent
Oct 2014 - Jul 2015
Annotations for setting fonts to Android TextView
Contributions:1 release, 22 commits, 4 pushes in 9 months
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desertjim/CustomViewGroups
May 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:52 commits in 6 months
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