Matthew V
Senior Solutions Engineer at Woven by Toyota
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolMatthew V is a Senior Solutions Engineer based in Tokyo with 11 years of hands-on experience building mobile-first products and developer-facing solutions. He has a strong Android pedigree from roles at Mercari, FiNC and Woven Planet, and now applies that expertise to cross-functional problem solving at Woven by Toyota. An active open-source contributor, he implemented sponsor features and UI/navigation enhancements for the widely used DroidKaigi conference apps, demonstrating attention to both API/data layers and polished UX. Fluent in Japanese studies and computer science, he combines multilingual cultural insight with technical depth to ship scalable mobile features. Colleagues rely on him to bridge product, platform and engineering needs while keeping an eye on maintainability and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Japanese Studies, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Japanese Studies at Victoria University of Wellington
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (24)
kotlin10
mobile-development10
android10
r9
databinding9
proguard9
dependency-injection9
retrofit9
roomdb9
android-application8
android-apps8
android-architecture8
android-app8
android-architecture-components8
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DroidKaigi/conference-app-2019
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
The Official Conference App for DroidKaigi 2019 Tokyo
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:34 commits, 7 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the implementation of a sponsor feature for the DroidKaigi 2019 conference app. Their work involved adding API calls, database entities, and repository implementations related to sponsor data. The user also developed UI components, including sponsor items and a dedicated sponsor fragment, integrating data fetching and display functionalities within the Android application. Further modifications to the codebase involved dependency injection and navigation.
androiddroidkaigikotliniosflutter
DroidKaigi/conference-app-2018
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
The Official Conference App for DroidKaigi 2018 Tokyo
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:21 commits, 9 PRs, 8 pushes in 19 days
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on enhancing the DroidKaigi 2018 Android application. They made several adjustments to the app's ProGuard rules, allowing for better code optimization and obfuscation. The user also modified the UI, allowing for nullable speaker lists in the SpeakersSummaryLayout and simplifying the Speaker Click listener interface. Furthermore, they merged code and updated the SpeakerDetailFragment, adding a survey link to the drawer menu, and adding spaces between parameters.
androiddroidkaigikotliniosflutter
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