Lee Howett
Staff Software Engineer at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolLee Howett is a Staff Software Engineer based in Vancouver with over a decade of hands-on experience building high-quality Android applications and leading teams through complex product deliveries. He has driven measurable impact—raising team sprint velocity by 40% at Tally by introducing unidirectional data flow and migrating UIs to Jetpack Compose—and has deep practical experience converting large codebases from RxJava to Kotlin coroutines and flows. Comfortable across the lifecycle from greenfield projects to long-term maintenance, he’s shipped multiple consumer apps and owned Android clients for multi-platform products like Sphero Edu. Lee pairs technical leadership and hiring experience with a focus on user-friendly, performant mobile UX, and he’s adept at creating reusable frameworks such as a design token system for rapid rebranding.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Victoria
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Github Skills (15)
android-fragments10
android-database10
android10
image9
listview9
orm-library8
database8
java8
orm7
orm-framework7
android-contacts6
phone-number6
survey3
kotlin2
android-library2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
howettl/android-MVVM-project-template
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 25 pushes, 8 branches in 7 months
howettl/RoundedImageView
Jul 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:13 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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