Miguel Kano
Senior Software Engineer at Robinhood
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolMiguel Kano is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and modernizing Android applications, currently driving mobile engineering at Robinhood from Los Angeles. He has a strong track record at consumer-focused companies like Tripadvisor and Greyhound, where he moved from intern to senior roles by shipping robust features and improving code quality. Miguel is an active open-source Android contributor—having modernized Kickstarter’s Android app and added features to the high-profile DroidKaigi conference app—demonstrating attention to refactoring, null-safety, and UI polish. He combines hands-on Kotlin/Android expertise with a pragmatic focus on maintainability, linting, and view-model improvements. Outside of day-to-day work he maintains a technical blog and GitHub portfolio, reflecting a habit of documenting learnings and sharing practical solutions. His background in computer science from the University of North Texas plus early freelance web work gives him a full-stack sensibility when collaborating across product and backend teams.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (AS), Associate of Science (AS) at Dallas CollegeBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of North Texas
English, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (18)
kotlin10
mobile-development10
rxjavafx10
ui-design10
android-development10
uid10
front-end-development10
android10
rxjava10
kotlin-android10
mutablelivedata9
android-jetpack9
viewmodel9
android-livedata9
databinding8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kickstarter/android-oss
Dec 2016 - Jun 2019
Kickstarter for Android. Bring new ideas to life, anywhere.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:9 commits, 12 PRs, 10 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily focused on modernizing and refactoring the Android application's codebase. Their contributions included removing unused code members, refactoring view models (CommentsViewModel, LoginToutViewModel, ProjectSocialViewModel, SettingsViewModel, ProjectNotificationSettingsViewModel and ResetPasswordViewModel) to improve code style, and addressing potential null pointer exceptions. They also made minor UI changes and bug fixes, such as fixing navigation issues.
functional-programmingfunctional-reactive-programmingrxjavaandroidanywhere
DroidKaigi/conference-app-2020
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
The Official Conference App for DroidKaigi 2020 Tokyo
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 19 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily contributed to the development of the DroidKaigi 2020 conference app for Android. Their work involved adding new features, specifically a contributors screen. The user implemented UI elements within the app and also made changes to view models and data repositories related to displaying the contributors. They also addressed lint warnings and fixed import issues, contributing to code quality.
androiddroidkaigikotliniosflutter
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