Kurt Nelson
Senior Software Engineer at Dropbox
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKurt Nelson is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building high-performance Android apps and mobile platforms, currently at Dropbox after leading Android architecture at Pinterest. He specializes in state-based architectures, startup performance, and large monorepo migrations—having driven Kotlin adoption and modern Android practices across major teams at Uber, Google, and Pinterest. Kurt pairs hands-on implementation (Kotlin Multiplatform, Flutter, image-editing app rescue) with systems-level thinking from advising startups to founding engineering collectives. Based in San Francisco, he brings a mix of engineering leadership, teaching experience, and a practical knack for resolving thorny technical debt in production systems.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Georgia Tech Research InstituteInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Winter Park High SchoolBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
protoc10
gradle-plugin10
flutter-plugin10
kotlin-android10
gradle-kotlin-dsl10
interchange10
protocol-buffers10
watchman10
protobuf10
leakcanary10
rpc10
gradle10
memory-leak-detection10
serialization10
kotlin10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kurtisnelson/resumator
Oct 2012 - Jun 2013
Contributions:41 commits in 8 months
kurtisnelson/lockitron
Jun 2013 - Aug 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 10 pushes, 3 tags in 2 years 2 months
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