Nathanael Silverman
Cumberland, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolNathanael Silverman is a seasoned Android engineer with 13–14 years building high‑impact mobile platforms, SDKs, and developer tools for startups and large tech teams. He was the first Android engineer at a startup acquired by Sentry where he built a low‑overhead performance monitoring SDK, and later authored widely used open‑source libraries at Airbnb, including Paris and contributions to Epoxy and Lottie. A patient technical leader, he founded Airbnb’s mentorship program and led cross‑team frameworks, modularization, and automated visual testing workflows that scaled across product teams. His work blends deep systems thinking—benchmarking SDK overhead to under 5%—with a people-first approach, prioritizing kindness and practical mentorship. Now based in Cumberland, RI, he’s focused on roles that let him help engineers and users through thoughtful technical stewardship and mentoring.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at EPITA: Ingénierie Informatique
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
android-test10
java10
javas10
android10
android-ui10
android-testing10
ui-design9
kotlin9
front-end-development9
uid9
nine-patch6
broadcast-receiver6
retrofit6
location6
android-layout6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
airbnb/paris
May 2017 - Jan 2019
Define and apply styles to Android views programmatically
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:6 releases, 362 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Nathanael's commits primarily focus on the development of features and modifications within the Airbnb Paris project. The commits show the user working on a framework designed for styling Android views programmatically. Their contributions primarily involve the modification and creation of style appliers for different types of views, and they also included adding methods to style builders, along with related tests.
android-uiandroidapplykotlinstyles
ngsilverman/ngsilverman.github.io
Dec 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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