Nicholas Tinsley
Software Engineer at Meta
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Tinsley is a mobile-focused software engineer with roughly three years of post-degree industry experience and a longer history of Android and mobile work across companies like Signal, Meta, SimpliSafe, and Squarespace. He specializes in Android engineering and UX-driven improvements—contributing to the well-known Signal Android client by fixing fragment lifecycle bugs, modernizing components with Material Design 3, and refining media preview and Bluetooth handling. Now based in Jersey City and returning to Meta, he blends product-minded UI polish with pragmatic bug fixes that improve reliability in real-world messaging scenarios. Early roles spanning backend work and image analysis give him a broader systems perspective beyond mobile, enabling him to bridge client-facing features with underlying infrastructure considerations.
4 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Northeastern University
Japanese
Github Skills (6)
kotlin10
android-development10
ui-design9
media-playback9
material-design9
exoplayer9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
signalapp/Signal-Android
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
A private messenger for Android.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:5 releases, 109 commits, 17 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the development of the Signal Android application. Their work involved fixing lifecycle issues within fragments, specifically related to the forward functionality in the multi-select feature. Additionally, they updated the UI by implementing Material Design 3 for the ReminderView component and improved the overall user experience through enhancements to the media preview functionality and improved Bluetooth handling. They made several UI improvements throughout the app's functionality, and optimized media preview behavior.
android
mollyim/mollyim-insider-android
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Experimental releases of Molly.
Contributions:35 commits in 1 month
golangapplicationandroid
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