Mahdi Hijazi
Senior Android Engineer at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMahdi Hijazi is a Senior Android Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-quality mobile products and leading teams, currently shaping the Android experience at Booking.com from Amsterdam. He has deep Android expertise dating back to JME and BlackBerry platforms, and a strong track record of revamps, cross-platform team leadership, and launching large-scale features such as a multi-platform customer service virtual assistant. At Booking.com he drives tech quality, A/B testing, hiring and the evolution of the Android stack while mentoring engineers and owning delivery. An active open-source contributor, he has improved Android-specific functionality for the widely used Dolphin emulator, addressing UI/UX bugs and modernizing code with lambdas and refactors. Fluent in Arabic and English, Mahdi brings a blend of hands-on engineering, product-oriented planning, and practical team leadership honed across startups and major product teams.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.6/4, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 3.6/4 at Jami'at Al Al-Bayt
English, Arabic
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dolphin-emu/dolphin
Aug 2017 - Oct 2018
Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:41 commits, 35 PRs, 149 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Mahdi focused on implementing and refactoring Android-specific features for the Dolphin emulator. Their contributions included showing the version number in the Android TV UI, replacing anonymous classes with lambdas, refactoring asset copying, and improving the game disc changing functionality. The user also addressed several UI/UX related issues such as a bug when opening GC pad settings screen, and the animator duration scale settings issues.
gameboycppemulatorgamesplatforms
mahdihijazi/dolphin
Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.
Contributions:2 PRs, 97 pushes, 66 branches in 1 year 7 months
gameboyemulatorgamesplatformsgamecube
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