Pablo Baxter
Senior Android Engineer at Life360
Oceanside, California, United States
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Top SchoolPablo Baxter is a Senior Android Engineer with a decade of experience building performant mobile apps and tooling, currently focused on location and sensor-driven features. He’s worked repeatedly at Life360 and Block (formerly Square), where he improved CI/CD, reduced ANRs and crashes, and rewrote internal tooling to leverage the Gradle Tooling API for faster builds. Pablo has a strong track record of finding and fixing critical performance and memory issues across Android Studio, IntelliJ, and Gradle ecosystems, and has contributed fixes and improvements to Kotlin Coroutines. His background in sensor data collection and replay, plus hands-on power profiling at PathSense, gives him deep expertise in mobile sensing, accuracy, and power optimization. A former USAF aerospace maintenance craftsman, he brings disciplined troubleshooting and systems thinking to software problems. Outside work, his Github bio (“Will code for tacos!”) hints at a pragmatic, down-to-earth approach to engineering collaborations.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoAssociate of Applied Science (AAS), Aviation Maintenance Technology, Associate of Applied Science (AAS), Aviation Maintenance Technology at Community College of the Air ForceSouthwestern Community College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (93)
programming-language10
python10
maven-plugin10
intellij-idea10
automation10
kotlin-library10
adal10
gradle-plugin10
duckduckgo10
kotlin-coroutines10
async10
api10
kotlin-multiplatform10
intellij-plugin10
code-editor10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
square/affected-paths
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Tool to find affected Gradle projects given the diff between commits
Contributions:15 reviews, 37 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 7 months
pablobaxter/rx-preferences
Mar 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:4 releases, 55 PRs, 116 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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