Julio Cotta is a Senior Android Developer with 12 years of experience building mobile products and platform-level libraries, currently based in Barcelona and leading feature teams at Veepee. He combines deep Android expertise—from architecture evolution (MVP to MVVM) and modularization to CI and developer tooling—with hands-on contributions to high-profile open-source projects like FlutterFire and flutter/plugins where he improved Firebase Analytics and fixed Android-specific crashes and memory issues. Julio thrives in fast-moving, product-first environments (startups and scale-ups like Youse, N26, Movile) and has a track record of shipping production apps, cross-platform integrations and an open-source form validation library used to render dynamic forms. Known for mentoring peers, creating reusable abstractions, and improving app stability, he brings pragmatic engineering discipline and a strong focus on developer experience to deliver scalable mobile solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 24 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Julio primarily focused on enhancing the Android implementation of the Cordova Firebase plugin. Their contributions involved modifying the `FirebasePluginMessagingService` to handle notifications, adding a broadcast receiver for notification opens, and fixing file paths and function calls. They also made changes to the `FirebasePlugin` class to manage subscriptions and integrate with Firebase Analytics. These changes aimed to improve notification handling and overall functionality within the Cordova plugin for Android.
Plugins for Flutter maintained by the Flutter team
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 24 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Julio primarily contributed to the `flutter/plugins` repository by implementing features and fixing bugs related to Android-specific plugins. Their work involved modifying code for the `firebase_analytics`, `android_alarm_manager`, `url_launcher`, `quick_actions`, `path_provider`, `google_maps_flutter`, `image_picker`, and `camera` plugins. The user addressed issues such as crashes, memory leaks, and added functionalities like Android headers and support for new API features, improving the stability, functionality, and user experience of the plugins.
dartandroidpluginflutter-pluginios
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.