Jose Alcérreca is a Staff Developer Relations Engineer at Google with 13 years of experience building and advocating for rock-solid Android apps and developer productivity tools. Based in Madrid, he blends deep hands-on Android expertise—modernizing large projects with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, coroutines and robust UI/test automation—with back-end and API sample work in Python and .NET. He has contributed to high-profile Google open-source projects like the Google I/O app, Compose samples and testing codelabs, often focusing on refactors that improve maintainability and testability. A former aerospace ground-support engineer and occasional electronics instructor, Jose brings a pragmatic systems mindset and a knack for turning complex platform changes into clearer, well-tested developer experiences.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Contributions:2 reviews, 64 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jose primarily contributed to the development of Android applications, specifically demonstrating proficiency in Data Binding. Their contributions included the creation of a basic data binding sample, a two-way data binding sample, and related test cases. The user implemented binding adapters, view models, and UI elements to showcase data binding functionalities within the Android framework. These changes also included updates to the project's build configuration and dependencies.
A collection of samples to discuss and showcase different architectural tools and patterns for Android apps.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:36 reviews, 567 commits, 267 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jose's contributions primarily involve implementing user interface components and features within the Android application. The commits showcase work related to the UI, including adding and modifying UI elements, refactoring the UI implementation, and fixing UI related issues. They also worked on UI improvements, such as adding the complete status checkbox functionality in task details and in the list.
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