Mikeย Penz
Director Of Software Engineering at Cox Automotive Inc.
Lichtenberg, Upper Austria
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Top SchoolMike Penz is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13+ years of experience, currently directing software engineering at Fyusion (now part of Cox Automotive) and running a long-standing freelance practice across Android, backend and web. He combines deep Android expertise since 2010 with substantial backend and DevOps experience, having led backend teams at Netural and shipped cross-cutting systems in production. A prolific open-source maintainer, his libraries and apps have amassed 25k stars and contributed to over 2 billion lifetime installs, and heโs the author of widely used tools like FastAdapter and popular GitHub Actions for release notes and test reporting. Known for pragmatic performance-focused engineering, he bridges mobile UI polish and robust backend automation, and often contributes subtle UX and testing improvements that reduce maintenance cost at scale. Based in Upper Austria, he pairs hands-on coding with people leadership and a knack for turning community-driven projects into enterprise-grade solutions.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Matura, EDVO & Organisation / Medientechnik, Matura, EDVO & Organisation / Medientechnik at HTBLA Leonding
English, German
Stackoverflow
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android-jetpack
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listview
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android-activity
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android-service
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android
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image
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Github Skills (56)
espresso10
kotlin10
uitest10
github-ci10
android-service10
animation10
apidoc10
androidviewbinding10
testing10
picasso10
test-runner10
typescript10
ui-design10
android-recyclerview10
android-development10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mikepenz/wallsplash-android
Jan 2015 - May 2017
wall:splash is a free open source android client for the awesome unsplash.com service (Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos)
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:12 releases, 247 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on developing and enhancing the Android client for the unsplash.com service. Their contributions included the implementation of a detail view with animations and shared element transitions, along with the integration of image downloading and setting of the wallpaper. The user also improved performance, optimized image loading using Picasso, and enhanced the UI with features like a download button and a share button. Furthermore, they addressed memory leaks and made backward-compatible changes to support older Android versions.
android-client
mikepenz/action-junit-report
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Reports junit test results as GitHub Pull Request Check
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 15 reviews, 591 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Mike focused on refactoring the codebase into Typescript and implemented new features related to test result reporting. A key contribution involved allowing tests to fail when a test case reports a failure. The user also added the ability to include passed tests as "notice" level annotations and integrated support for parsing JUnit web test runner results and Catch2 reports. Furthermore, the user improved the formatting and structure of the test summary.
junit-testjunittest-automationworkflowautomation
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