Lin Guo
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Suzhou City, Jiangsu, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLin Guo is a seasoned Android software engineer with 9 years of experience based in Suzhou, China, and recognized as a Google Developer Expert for Android. He contributes actively to open-source, notably enhancing PermissionX (migrating Java to Kotlin, adding support for modern permissions) and building Glance, a pragmatic database debugging tool for Android. Comfortable across UI, lifecycle, and permission edge cases, he brings practical improvements like ViewBinding refactors, rotation handling, and UX tweaks for paging and scrolling. Lin combines deep platform knowledge with a focus on developer ergonomics, often tackling less obvious pain points like system-level permissions and demo-app correctness to make libraries production-ready.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 3.8/4.0, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 3.8/4.0 at Sun Yat-Sen UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (14)
kotlin10
binding10
android-sdk10
mobile-development10
android10
view-binding10
androidviewbinding10
java9
android-recyclerview9
recyclerview9
javas9
paging8
ui-design8
jetpack7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
guolindev/Glance
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
A simple and handy Android database debugging library.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:84 commits, 3 PRs, 106 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Lin focused on enhancing the Glance Android database debugging library. They implemented features related to displaying data, including a footer view for paging, and addressed UI elements such as centering text within a horizontal scroll view. Furthermore, the user refactored code by switching to ViewBinding and improved the application's functionality by handling device rotation and implementing value modifications.
android-databaseandroidjetpackkotlindebugging
guolindev/ScopedStorageDemo
Feb 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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