Miguel Casas
Sr Android Engineer at Grindr
Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolMiguel Casas is a senior Android engineer with over a decade of mobile experience who has led architecture, technical teams, and shipped large-scale native apps for clients like Bancolombia and Disney. He combines deep Android UI/UX expertise (evidenced by his CustomBottomSheetBehavior work mimicking Google Maps) with production-focused skills across ads, analytics, and CMP integration at Grindr. Comfortable rebuilding systems from scratch, he helped resurrect a near-dead XMPP chat project and contributed fixes to the Smack library. A pragmatic mentor and former founder, he has trained junior developers, managed mobile projects end-to-end, and routinely balances delivering new features with reducing technical debt. Active in open source and the developer community, he ranks in the top 7% on Stack Overflow and regularly contributes practical Android improvements.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
System engineer Computer Science, System engineer Computer Science at Universidad EAFIT
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
5,472reputation
427kreached
49answers
18questions
android
top-5%
google-maps
top-1%
Github Skills (11)
android10
google-maps10
javas9
java9
ui-design9
bottomsheet6
firebase6
android-coordinatorlayout6
google-io6
parallax6
kotlin4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
miguelhincapie/CustomBottomSheetBehavior
May 2016 - Oct 2019
Custom BottomSheetBehavior for Android that mimic Google Maps behavior
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:62 commits, 21 PRs, 55 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily worked on enhancing the Android application's BottomSheetBehavior, specifically mimicking Google Maps' behavior. Their contributions involved adding image parallax effects, toolbar interactions, and modifying the BottomSheetBehavior class for improved functionality, including dynamic peek height adjustments and hiding FAB on certain states. They also introduced changes related to the AppBarLayout and FAB behavior, optimizing the user interface and fixing bugs. Furthermore, the user refactored the project into library and example modules and improved the existing classes with a focus on UX and interaction design.
language-extensionandroidbottomsheetbehaviorgoogle-mapsmimic
miguelhincapie/GitHubExplorer
Sep 2019 - Jul 2021
Simple app multi-module following MVVM + Clean architecture
Contributions:71 commits, 4 PRs, 64 pushes in 1 year 10 months
retrofit2mvvmmvvm-architecturemvvm-clean-architecturedagger
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