Jolanda Verhoef
Android Developer Advocate
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJolanda Verhoef is an Android Developer Advocate at Google with 11 years of experience building and championing modern Android UX using Jetpack Compose. She combines hands-on Android UI development—contributing to flagship repos like android/compose-samples and nowinandroid—with developer relations work that improves sample apps, accessibility codelabs, and CI/test infrastructure. Her background spans product and leadership roles at Coolblue, Blendle and startups, plus freelance engagements for public sector and retail clients, giving her a pragmatic product-focused perspective. Based in Utrecht, she pairs a rare mix of psychology and computer science training with practical expertise in Wear OS, accessibility, and automated testing across device farms.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Psychology, Bachelor of Science, Psychology at Tilburg UniversityBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Universiteit Utrecht / University of Utrecht
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (26)
kotlin10
mobile-development10
bash10
wearos10
ui-design10
cicd10
material-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
android10
jetpack-compose10
sample-size9
sample-data9
gradle9
sample-rate9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
android/codelab-android-compose
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:51 reviews, 97 commits, 76 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jolanda primarily contributed to the "android/codelab-android-compose" repository, focusing on enhancing and updating the Android Compose UI components. The user's work involved adding new codelabs related to accessibility, updating dependencies for version bumps, and updating to material 3. The commits show the addition and modification of various Compose UI elements, demonstrating a clear focus on Android application development and UI implementation.
codelab
android/compose-samples
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Official Jetpack Compose samples.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:3 releases, 187 reviews, 206 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jolanda's commits primarily focus on developing and improving UI components and interactions within the Jetsnack Android sample application, indicating a strong focus on frontend development. Their contributions include implementing animations, such as animating the snack count in the cart, adding interactions to the cart functionality, and fixing various UI issues. The user also made changes to the data model and UI components.
jetpack-composeandroid
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