Martijn Brekhof
Lead Android Engineer at Chordify
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMartijn Brekhof is a Lead Android Engineer based in Utrecht with over a decade of experience building high-quality mobile apps and leading engineering teams. At Chordify he progressed from improving performance and stability to establishing modern Kotlin, MVVM and Clean Architecture practices and now oversees the Android team's delivery and hiring. He combines a systems-oriented background in Linux and directory services with hands-on mobile development, bringing discipline from courseware development and teaching into engineering culture. An active contributor to open-source mobile tooling, he has enhanced the popular Kodi remote Kore with UX improvements like shared element transitions, multi-column views and music controls. Trained in Informatics and Statistical Learning, Martijn blends academic rigor with practical product focus to scale apps and teams effectively.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Informatica, 8, Master's Degree, Informatica, 8 at Universiteit van AmsterdamStatistical Learning, 7, Statistical Learning, 7 at Stanford University
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (8)
mobile-application10
user-interface10
mobile-development10
app-dev10
android-development10
java9
javas9
kotlin8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xbmc/Kore
Jul 2015 - Jun 2020
Kore is a simple and easy-to-use Kodi remote.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:135 commits, 176 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Martijn focused on implementing features and enhancements for the Kodi remote application. This included adding functionality to manage and play music, such as adding support for context menus in various list views. They also introduced a new widget to control volume. Furthermore, the user worked on improving the user interface and user experience by adding or enhancing shared element transitions and supporting multi column views.
kodiandroidkore
poisdeux/dummymediafiles
Oct 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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