Kai Wang
Founder at Outblock
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Wang is a founder and seasoned Android engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance mobile products and leading engineering efforts from startup to scale. Based in Chengdu, he founded Sapiens8 and concurrently ships consumer apps that he independently designed and developed—six apps with over 5 million downloads and an average rating above 4.2—using Kotlin and Flutter. His corporate experience includes senior Android roles at Keep, Snowball Finance, and Baidu where he drove performance optimizations, trading and market features, and large-scale client modules that reduced crash rates and startup times. As Android Lead at Outblock and an active contributor to Android UI components (notably improving the WaveView animation and CPU profile), he blends hands-on optimization with maintainable architecture. He’s equally comfortable owning product design and overseas service integrations, a practical founder-engineer who turns user feedback into measurable improvements. An understated strength is his track record of shrinking app size and runtime costs while maintaining smooth UX at scale.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer science and Technology, Bachelor's degree, Computer science and Technology at Dalian Minzu University
Github Skills (8)
javas10
uid10
custom-view10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
animation10
android-development10
java10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
john990/WaveView
Jun 2014 - Jun 2016
A wave view of android,can be used as progress bar.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:1 release, 55 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Kai primarily worked on the Android-specific `WaveView` component, fixing bugs and enhancing the animation. They implemented features like setting the progress of the wave and optimized CPU utilization, as well as handling the wave animation during lifecycle events. These changes included updates to the demo application and improving code structure for maintainability.
android-libraryandroidprogress-barwave
Outblock/fcl-android
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:8 releases, 75 commits, 55 pushes in 4 months
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