Kyle Koser
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Koser is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building mobile infrastructure and Android frameworks for LinkedIn in the San Francisco Bay Area. He specializes in making mobile apps more reliable and testable, contributing to notable open-source work such as enhancements to the widely used test-butler Android testing library to reduce flakiness and ensure compatibility with newer Android releases. Kyle’s background spans product-facing apps and developer tooling, from creating campus apps and modular mobile features at Notre Dame to tooling and theming work during internships. He combines hands-on engineering with a knack for practical developer experience improvements, often tackling compatibility and automation pain points that quietly improve team velocity.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Brophy College PrepBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Notre Dame
English
Github Skills (7)
android-library10
javas10
android10
java10
testing10
gradlew9
gradle9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/test-butler
Sep 2016 - Apr 2021
Reliable Android Testing, at your service
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:17 commits, 28 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the `test-butler` Android testing library, adding features to enhance testing capabilities. Key contributions include implementing functionalities to enable/disable the system spell checker and prefer the hardware keyboard during tests, reducing test flakiness. The user also addressed compatibility issues, allowing the library to run on Android Q and fixing lint warnings and Javadoc generation.
android-emulatortestingandroid-libraryandroidreliable
linkedin/shaky-android
Sep 2016 - Apr 2020
Shake to send feedback for Android.
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 16 commits in 3 years 7 months
shakeandroid-libraryandroidlinkedinkotlin
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