Noelia Alcala
Senior Android Engineer at DuckDuckGo
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolNoelia Alcala is a Senior Android Engineer based in Edinburgh with nine years of mobile-first experience building production Android apps from scratch and scaling features in both startups and privacy-focused products. She currently contributes to the DuckDuckGo Android app, shipping UI and functionality improvements—including file-scheme search and print features—and brings a strong test-first mindset. Previously she helped launch Flick’s Android app as an early hire and has deep Kotlin, RxJava and dependency-injection experience across Agile teams. Her background in telecommunications and a master’s in mobile development underpin a practical blend of systems thinking and hands-on implementation. Colleagues rely on her for performance tuning, pragmatic architecture, and thoughtful feature trade-offs in small, fast-moving teams.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Elektrotechnik, Elektrotechnik at Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte WissenschaftenUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)Master in Professional Development, Master in Professional Development at Universidad de AlcaláTelecommunications Engineering, Ingeniería de telecomunicaciones, Telecommunications Engineering, Ingeniería de telecomunicaciones at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English, German
Stackoverflow
3,916reputation
664kreached
15answers
5questions
android
top-5%
rounding
top-5%
java
top-5%
kotlin
top-5%
Github Skills (15)
javas10
android-ui10
android10
java10
kotlin9
rounding9
unit-testing9
android-intent6
html6
xml6
android-imageview6
android-viewpager6
android-fragments6
package-info6
android-layout6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/Android
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
DuckDuckGo Android App
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:440 reviews, 226 commits, 411 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Noelia primarily contributed to the DuckDuckGo Android app, focusing on UI and functionality improvements. They implemented file scheme searches, including adding unit tests, and removed the "Edit" option from the fireproof sites list. Furthermore, the user worked on features related to automatic fireproofing settings selection and the print functionality.
translationsduckduckgoandroidandroid-appduckduckgo-android
nalcalag/mis-sitios
Aug 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.