Michael Walker
Principal Software Engineer at Michael A. Walker
Youngstown, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Walker is a Principal Software Engineer and Android specialist with 14 years of experience building mobile products across education, R&D, and B2B domains, currently developing Android applications for medical devices. He pairs hands-on Android SDK and Kotlin expertise with systems thinking gained from distributed-systems research at Vanderbilt, and has moved products from proof-of-concept to public beta while leading teams and CI-driven release pipelines. As an independent consultant and former adjunct faculty, he blends practical engineering with teaching experience, having designed and delivered multiple computer science courses. He contributes to educational open-source work—improving threaded download examples for a popular POSA MOOC—and consistently emphasizes maintainability, testing, and platform-compliant privacy/security in long-lived mobile apps.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Youngstown State UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (10)
javas10
android-ui10
threaded10
android-sdk10
thread10
hyper-threading10
multithreading10
java10
debug9
debugging9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
douglascraigschmidt/POSA-14
Apr 2014 - Jun 2014
This repository contains assignments and examples for the 2014 offering of the POSA MOOC (see www.coursera.org/course/posa for more information)
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:21 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily worked on the `ThreadedDownloads` example, making improvements to its functionality and code organization. The changes included updates to the `ThreadedDownloads.java` file, focusing on download progress display, image handling, and user interface improvements. The user also updated the `PlayPingPong.java` files, demonstrating their familiarity with Android app development.
posamooc
mawalker/CS278
Aug 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:36 commits in 2 months
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