Kirwan Lyster
Engineering Manager at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKirwan Lyster is an engineering manager at Meta with 12 years of experience leading Android product and platform work, having risen from hands-on Android engineer to manager while continuing to contribute to open source like Facebook’s widely used Fresco image library. He led preloaded app development for Tesco’s hudl2 and played a central role in Beamly’s Android rebuild that earned Google Play Editors’ Choice and boosted the US rating from 3.8 to 4.2. Kirwan combines product-focused delivery with strong CI and quality engineering instincts—he evangelised test coverage and CI improvements across teams to accelerate feedback and reduce regressions. Based in London, he brings practical cross-discipline collaboration with designers and server teams, and a knack for squeezing performance and reliability out of mobile image pipelines and caches.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Media Technology and Production, 2:2 Hons, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Media Technology and Production, 2:2 Hons at Bradford University
Github Skills (4)
android-development10
java10
javas10
testing9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/fresco
Feb 2016 - Sep 2018
An Android library for managing images and the memory they use.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:3 releases, 229 commits, 45 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kirwan primarily contributes to the Android library `fresco`, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes within the image pipeline. They modified sample applications and core library components, including the image decoder, disk cache policy, and producers. Contributions include adding new features such as support for partial image caching and media variations. They also made changes to improve the test coverage.
memoryimageandroid-libraryandroid
coloridad/fresco
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
An Android library for managing images and the memory they use.
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
memoryimageandroid-libraryandroid
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