Nicola Corti
Staff Android Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNicola Corti is a Staff Android Engineer at Meta with 12 years building developer tooling, app infrastructure, and cross-platform Android support—currently contributing to the React Native core and Hermes build system. He’s a prolific open-source maintainer (detekt, Chucker, AppIntro) and has modernized major projects across Android, React Native, and Kotlin ecosystems, often focusing on builds, CI and developer experience. A habitual mentor and speaker, he founded GDG Pisa and the Hamburg Kotlin User Group and has delivered international conference talks since 2016. His background spans infrastructure roles at Spotify and Yelp, plus deep involvement in Kotlin DI (Koin) and React Native automation, reflecting a rare blend of hands-on library design and large-scale build engineering. Notably, he combines high academic honors from Università di Pisa with a consistent drive to publish tooling that directly improves other developers’ velocity.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laudee (110/110), Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laudee (110/110) at Università di Pisa
English, French, Italian, German
Stackoverflow
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3kreached
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Github Skills (65)
android-gradle-plugin10
ui-components10
testing10
javas10
constraint-layout10
build-automation10
gradle-plugin10
javascript10
mobile-application10
uid10
front-end-development10
html10
dependency-injection10
cli10
test-automation10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
cortinico/kotlin-android-template
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Android + Kotlin + Github Actions + ktlint + Detekt + Gradle Kotlin DSL + buildSrc = ❤️
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:58 reviews, 40 commits, 177 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nicola primarily focused on updating dependencies and libraries within the Android project, including upgrading the Android Gradle Plugin (AGP), Kotlin, and various Jetpack libraries. They also performed refactoring, such as removing unused code. Furthermore, the user added a Jetpack Compose module to the project. Additionally, the user set up publishing to Maven Central and configured build flavors.
androidbuildsrcdetektgradle-kotlin-dslkotlin
ChuckerTeam/chucker
Nov 2018 - Sep 2022
🔎 An HTTP inspector for Android & OkHTTP (like Charles but on device)
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:4 releases, 530 reviews, 184 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nicola primarily contributed to the UI and layout improvements of the Android application. They updated the layout files using ConstraintLayout, exported resources to a dimensions file, and fixed constraints ordering. Additionally, the user worked on polishing the color palette and migrating the sample application to use kotlin-android-extensions for UI elements. Further contributions include updating the project icon and refactoring of the public API.
androidokhttpinterceptorokhttpclientproxy
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