Leland Takamine
Cofounder & CEO at Maestro
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeland Takamine is a mobile-focused engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience building platform solutions that improve app quality and performance. As Cofounder & CEO of perf.dev (and previously Maestro), he helps teams eliminate user churn caused by subtle performance issues, turning performance into a standard rather than a luxury. His background includes leading mobile platform architecture and tooling at Uber, and hands-on work on open-source projects like a Kotlin/Java ADB-less device connector and the Maestro automation framework that support robust Android/iOS testing. Based in San Francisco, he combines product vision with deep engineering craft—often shipping low-level device and testing utilities that enable higher-level reliability guarantees.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Spanish
Github Skills (14)
kotlin10
javas10
android-adb10
mobile-development10
adb10
android10
android-development10
java10
yaml10
automation9
automations9
testing8
bouncy-castle5
ios3
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mobile-dev-inc/dadb
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
A Kotlin/Java library to connect directly to an Android device without an adb binary or an ADB server
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:24 reviews, 147 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Leland primarily worked on building a Kotlin/Java library for direct Android device connections. Their contributions focused on adding core modules, constants, and tests to the project. The user also implemented adb-related functionalities, including a reader, writer, and message queue, along with private key authentication and support for push/pull operations. They also added shell v2 implementation and test cases.
java-libraryjava-kotlinandroidkotlinadb
mobile-dev-inc/Maestro
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Painless E2E Automation for Mobile and Web
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:335 reviews, 93 commits, 119 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Leland primarily contributed to the mobile testing automation framework. Their work involved implementing Android-specific utilities for app file restoration, including enabling debuggable manifest settings. Further contributions included adding support for configuration files, integrating features such as nested run flows and enabling screen recording.
mobile-developmentblackbox-testingautomation-uiandroidautomation
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