Jorge Soriano
Senior Android Engineer at Backbase
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolJorge Soriano is a Senior Android Engineer with 12 years of experience building robust mobile and embedded Android systems, currently focused on accessibility and RTL support for banking PaaS at Backbase. He has led architecture and media playback efforts at companies like Volvo and TIDAL, shipping SDKs, proprietary codec integrations, and real-time socket-driven features for social listening. A specialist in legacy codebases and pragmatic delivery, he favors targeted fixes and incremental improvements over large rewrites while routinely reverse-engineering APIs and products to solve hard compatibility challenges. Active in high-impact open-source projects, Jorge has contributed important UX and performance fixes to widely used apps and libraries such as Nextcloud and the NYTimes Store, including Kotlin support and large-file preview optimizations. Certified Scrum Master with a strong background in CI, modularization, and automated testing, he blends hands-on engineering with design-minded architecture and a proven track record of operationalizing developer tooling.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Software Engineering, Computer Science Software Engineering at Universidad de Castilla-La ManchaSoftware Engineering Software Engineering, Software Engineering Software Engineering at Mälardalen UniversitySoftware Engineering Master's Programme Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineering Master's Programme Computer Software Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology
Spanish, English, Swedish
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Github Skills (23)
kotlin10
file-management10
java10
android-library10
javas10
android10
android-ui10
webdav10
testing9
ui-design9
mobile-application9
owncloud9
gradlew8
gradle8
caching7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
nytimes/Store
Feb 2017 - May 2018
Android Library for Async Data Loading and Caching
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:10 commits, 12 PRs, 29 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily focused on the development of the Android library, addressing compatibility issues, and adding new features. Their contributions included removing dependencies on newer Java features for broader API support and adding a Kotlin module, indicating familiarity with both Java and Kotlin. The user also updated the Gradle configuration and addressed issues that arose during the upgrade.
cachingandroid-libraryandroidasyncdata-loading
owncloud/android-library
Sep 2014 - Nov 2014
:phone: The ownCloud Android Library
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:23 commits, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily contributed to the `owncloud/android-library` repository, focusing on the implementation of file copy operations within the Android library. Their work involved adding necessary code and refining the `CopyRemoteFileOperation` class. The commits demonstrate efforts to handle various scenarios related to file copying, including renaming, and handling potential errors, and also include test updates to verify these implementations.
phoneowncloudandroid-libraryandroidkotlin
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