Kuan-ying Chou
Software Engineer at Google
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolKuan-ying Chou is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years’ experience building Android and backend tooling, currently contributing to Google since 2021. He has a strong Android pedigree from multiple roles at Booking.com, Synology, and other product teams, and brings hands-on expertise in build tool integration and code generation. At Google he notably contributed to the high-profile Dagger/Hilt dependency injection project, improving build reliability and developer-facing error messages while migrating to the XProcessing API. Comfortable across mobile and backend boundaries, he combines production Android app development with low-level build-system debugging. Trained with a master’s in Information Management from Tamkang University, he often operates at the intersection of developer ergonomics and robust engineering. Colleagues value him for quietly fixing hard build-time bugs that unblock whole teams.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Management, Master's degree, Information Management at Tamkang University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
javas10
build-tools10
gradlew10
dependency-injection10
java10
gradle10
android9
code-generation9
kotlin8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
google/dagger
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
A fast dependency injector for Android and Java.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 66 comments, 9 issues in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kuan-ying focused on enhancing the Dagger dependency injection framework, specifically within the context of the Hilt extension for Android and Java. Their contributions include fixing bugs in the build process, improving error messages for developers using Hilt in Android applications, and migrating existing code to the new XProcessing API. They demonstrated expertise in build tool integration, code generation, and debugging.
injectorandroidkotlindependency-injectionjava
kuanyingchou/dolphin
Jan 2012 - Oct 2012
Contributions:99 commits in 9 months
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.