Kevin Galligan
Technical Partner at droidcon 🇺🇦
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Galligan is a mobile-focused technology founder and engineering leader with 15 years of experience, currently co-founding enterprise native mobile infrastructure at Stealth while serving as Technical Partner at Touchlab. He helps shape the Kotlin Multiplatform ecosystem—both as a Kotlin Foundation Ecosystem Committee member and through hands-on open source work on notable projects like SQLDelight, Koin, and tooling that bridges Kotlin and iOS (j2objc, xcode-kotlin). Kevin combines deep iOS and Kotlin Native expertise with a practical emphasis on developer efficiency and test-driven quality, having contributed drivers, UI integrations, and debugging tooling. A frequent conference speaker and community organizer (droidcon, NY Android Developers), he pairs product-minded leadership with a developer-first approach. Off-stage he’s unusually comfortable moving between low-level debugging plugins and high-level ecosystem strategy, and he’s even played in a hard-rock band while building his career.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Working on the master's. On hold till we see how this company thing works out. Computer Science, Working on the master's. On hold till we see how this company thing works out. Computer Science at The City College of New YorkBA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Colgate University
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Github Skills (31)
kotlin10
xcode-plugin10
ios10
sqlite10
testing10
java10
javas10
junit10
sql10
android10
kotlin-multiplatform10
sqldelight10
swift10
dependency-injection10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
touchlab/xcode-kotlin
Jan 2019 - May 2022
Kotlin Native Xcode Plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Xcode Plugin Developer
Back-end Developer & Xcode Plugin DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 11 reviews, 88 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the `konan_lldb.py` file, which suggests they were working on enhancing the Xcode plugin for Kotlin Native. Their work involved updating and refining the plugin's functionality to better support debugging and interactive tools within Xcode. This included caching Kotlin type information for class definitions, modifying string representations, and optimizing the plugin's overall performance. They appear to have made improvements to the plugin's ability to display Kotlin objects and arrays during debugging sessions.
kotlin-multiplatformkotlinswiftioskotlin-native
touchlab/KaMPKit
Dec 2019 - Sep 2022
KaMP Kit by Touchlab. A collection of code & tools designed to get your mobile team started quickly w/Kotlin Multiplatform
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:25 reviews, 125 commits, 36 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on iOS-specific development within the Kotlin Multiplatform project. Their contributions include implementing UI elements, integrating a network request, and managing lifecycle events within the iOS application. The user worked on integrating database interactions and testing the functionality of models within the iOS environment, demonstrating a focus on ensuring proper data flow and UI representation. They also updated dependencies and implemented changes related to Ktor for network calls.
code-toolskotlin-multiplatformandroidkotlinkotlin-multiplatform-mobile
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