John Lombardo
Lead Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
Huntington Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Lombardo is a Lead Software Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building and guiding mobile teams, currently driving Android development for ESPN at The Walt Disney Company from Huntington Beach. He combines deep Android architecture expertise—dating back to R&D work at Boeing and authoring an O'Reilly Android book—with product-focused delivery across startups and enterprises like Wheels, Gigster, and Flipagram. John has shipped consumer apps with hundreds of thousands of installs, led mobile architecture and hiring efforts, and created company-wide Android standards and interview tooling. His open-source work includes refining Android graphics and gesture handling in projects like WorldMap, reflecting a practical focus on performance and user experience. With an MBA in Leadership and a history of mentoring and building cross-functional teams, he balances technical mastery with people-first leadership.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at National UniversityMBA, Leadership, MBA, Leadership at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
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Github Skills (18)
java10
javas10
android10
eclipse10
bitmap9
androidmanifest9
apk9
unity-game-engine9
bitmaps9
xml9
surfaceview8
android-source6
classloader6
aapt6
textview6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
johnnylambada/WorldMap
Apr 2012 - Sep 2019
Android Scrolling Background Bitmap Example
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:72 commits, 13 pushes, 1 tag in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:John refactored the background logic within the Android application, creating a new `Background` class to encapsulate its functionality. They then made further improvements, including updating the `WorldView.java` and creating a `Scene.java` as well as a `Touch` class which improved the scrolling, zooming and general user experience. Several updates indicate progress and further refactoring. Finally, the commits show a move to SurfaceView and the implementation of a gesture detector.
bitmapscrollingandroid-libraryandroidkotlin
johnnylambada/robospanner
May 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 1 month
toolboxandroid
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