Summary
John Qualls is a Staff Android Engineer based in Austin with a decade of professional experience and over seven years focused on shipping high-quality Android apps. He’s led Android initiatives at consumer and enterprise brands—driving migrations to Hilt, introducing Jetpack Compose, improving test reliability, and building CI/CD pipelines that automate builds, tests, and releases. His background spans realtime media (rewriting Twilio’s Video Android demo and open-sourcing AudioSwitch) to large-scale consumer apps (Headspace serving millions) and cross-functional leadership as an Android lead. Comfortable across mobile and web stacks, he’s delivered end-to-end solutions from JNI integrations to TypeScript/React frontends when projects shifted priorities. Colleagues rely on him for architecture improvements, developer-experience work (Gradle modularization, design libraries), and pragmatic production troubleshooting.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Metropolitan State University of Denver