Michael Bestas
Android Developer at LineageOS
Greece
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Top SchoolMichael Bestas is an Android developer with 24 years of engineering experience, specializing in low-level system work, build automation, and AOSP-derived platforms. He has long-standing leadership and contributor roles at LineageOS and CyanogenMod and currently develops Android at The Calyx Institute, maintaining expertise across vendor configurations, recovery projects (TWRP/omnirom) and platform SDKs. His open-source contributions show a knack for platform hygiene—fixing partition mounting, streamlining SDK features, and adapting apps like Seedvault to AOSP build systems—demonstrating both device-level debugging and build-system fluency. Michael often operates where embedded systems meet mobile frameworks, handling Android.mk, prebuilt libraries, and Qualcomm-specific quirks that many app-focused engineers don’t touch. Based in Greece with a computer engineering background from TEI of Epirus, he combines decades of practical Android platform work with a focus on reproducible builds and cross-device compatibility.
25 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at TEI of Epirus
Github Skills (49)
kotlin10
mobile-development10
system-configuration10
scripting10
calendars10
build-system10
recover10
android-sdk10
android-build10
c1110
makefile10
recovery10
android-development10
java10
enviroment10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ArrowOS-Devices/android_vendor_xiaomi_sdm660-common
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:8 commits in 1 year 1 month
DirtyUnicorns/android_device_qcom_sepolicy
Nov 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:35 commits in 4 years 10 months
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