Marcel Biescas
Head Of Mobile at Holafly
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcel Biescas is a mobile engineering leader and founder with 12+ years building Android and Flutter products across e‑commerce, entertainment and mobility. An ex-Googler who led global Android privacy, UI and connectivity efforts and later ran Developer Relations, he combines platform expertise with hands-on implementation. He founded pibi.studio to ship apps and consult, contributes Android UI samples and widget modernizations on GitHub, and maintains an active technical blog and StackOverflow presence. Based in Munich, he currently heads mobile at Holafly while balancing studio work, bringing rare product-to-platform perspective and a practical advocacy for Kotlin, Flutter and Google technologies.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
German, English, Catalan, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
kotlin10
user-interface10
android10
glance9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
android/user-interface-samples
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Multiple samples showing the best practices in the user interface on Android.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:28 reviews, 49 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Marcel primarily contributed to the Android user interface samples repository, focusing on the development and enhancement of Android app widgets. Their work involved refactoring widget implementations, such as the list and weather forecast widgets, to utilize the core-remoteviews library for simplified code management. The user also added functionality to pin widgets from the main activity and updated the projects to be compatible with newer Android API levels, including the addition of glance samples.
user-interfaceandroid
google/glance-experimental-tools
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
Glance Experimental Tools aims to supplement Jetpack Glance with features that are commonly required by developers but not yet available.
Contributions:6 reviews, 67 commits, 10 PRs in 1 month
jetpack-composecommonlysupplementandroidjetpack
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