Kristina Simakova
Software Engineering Manager Android Media at Google
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKristina Simakova is a Software Engineering Manager specializing in Android media, currently leading Android Media efforts at Google with over a decade of experience delivering mobile and media-rich applications. She has a strong track record growing and mentoring teams—scaling Android squads from single digits to nearly twenty engineers—and has led critical mobile commerce and checkout experiences at Zalando. Her background spans deep technical roles across payment, TV, and remote-rendering projects, giving her a rare blend of hands-on Android engineering and client-facing product delivery. Kristina focuses on enabling developers with performant media editing tooling, contributing to the Android media3 ecosystem to make media workflows more reliable and easy to integrate. She pairs technical leadership with formal training in entrepreneurship and executive leadership from National University of Singapore and Oxford Saïd, bringing product-minded strategy to engineering execution. Based in London, she combines systems-level thinking with practical delivery, often bridging product, design and stakeholder goals to ship impactful user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master level program Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies (University of Oslo and National University of Singapore), Master level program Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies (University of Oslo and National University of Singapore) at University of OsloExecutive Leadership, Executive Leadership at Saïd Business School, University of OxfordMaster Computer Science, Master Computer Science at UiT- The Arctic University of NorwayMaster level program Technopreneurship, Master level program Technopreneurship at National University of Singapore
Russian, Norwegian, English
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Github Skills (23)
kotlin10
jetpack10
java10
media-player10
android10
player10
extensible10
exoplayer10
jetpack-compose10
arcore6
opencv6
vuforia6
easyar6
sceneform6
arkit6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
droid-girl/arfaces
Jul 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:21 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
droid-girl/ARCore-Samples
Dec 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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