Ondrej Ruttkay
Senior Android Engineer at DuckDuckGo
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolOndrej Ruttkay is a Senior Android Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building polished mobile experiences, currently driving Android development at DuckDuckGo from Prague. He brings a strong foundation in computer science from the University of Waterloo and a pragmatic focus on Material Design and UX refinements. Ondrej has contributed to notable open-source work such as the Simplenote Android app, where he modernized UI, replaced raster icons with vectors, and improved core interactions like pinning and sharing. Known for thoughtful refactors and attention to design details, he balances user-facing polish with maintainable code. Despite a self-deprecating GitHub bio as a "puny human," his track record shows consistent impact on widely used apps.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (6)
material-design10
mobile-ui10
ui-design10
android-development10
java9
javas9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/simplenote-android
Mar 2016 - Feb 2021
Simplenote for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:12 reviews, 76 commits, 20 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ondrej primarily focused on updating the UI and user experience of the Simplenote Android application. They replaced fonts with the Roboto font, adjusted margins and fonts according to material design guidelines, and replaced some icon PNGs with vector drawables. They also refactored the share and history bottom sheets, implemented a new about screen, and improved the pinning functionality of notes. The user made additional changes to improve the general design of the app.
androidsimplenote
0nko/Architecture-Demo
Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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