Michael Ortiz is a Senior Software Engineer and technical lead based in San Francisco with 14 years of professional experience and seven years focused on Android. He has driven core mobile product development at startups and scale-ups—most notably as an early Android hire and later technical lead at Glooko, where he helped architect device integrations and co-invented the Android Sync Cable (U.S. Patent 9,292,475). At Airbnb he continues to deliver scalable, user-facing Android features while mentoring teams and shaping system design. Michael is an active open-source contributor (TouchImageView) who balances hands-on bug fixes and performance tuning with higher-level architecture and team leadership.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Stanford University
Contributions:81 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the development of the Android application, focusing on enhancing the `TouchImageView` component. Their work involved fixing bugs related to zooming functionality, including shaky zoom and slow performance on tablets. They also implemented new features like double-tap zoom and fling gestures, and refactored the code for better maintainability. Furthermore, the user added the option to maintain zoom after setting a new image source and refactored the code to use an enum and a private class for touch listeners and the state of the app.
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Michael Ortiz - Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb