Patrick Fives
Co-Founder at Towns Labs
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Fives is a seasoned software entrepreneur and engineer with 11 years of experience building mobile-first products and startups, currently co-founding Towns Labs and running Forge while investing through Axia. He specializes in Java/Android and Go, with hands-on experience shipping consumer apps at scale (Houseparty, Shots) and building Android clients from the ground up (Cluster, wearable tech at Motiv). Patrick combines product intuition with deep implementation skills—evidenced by contributions to popular Android libraries such as adding complex emoji support and optimization work on emojicon. His background spans founding multiple ventures, leading engineering teams, and executing seed-stage product strategies, giving him a rare blend of technical leadership and business acumen. Based in the United States and educated in computer science at Wake Forest, he’s open to contracting roles where he can both architect systems and roll up his sleeves to ship features. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of turning small investments and early products into scalable outcomes, including a successful small business exit.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Wake Forest University
Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
javas10
resource-management10
android-development10
java10
emoji10
debug9
lib9
json6
listview6
android-animation6
webview6
jackson6
android6
doubleclick6
android-layout6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rockerhieu/emojicon
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
A library to show emoji in TextView, EditText (like WhatsApp) for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to adding and refining emoji support within the Android library. Their work involved incorporating new emojis from iOS 9.1, including skin tone and flag emojis, and refactoring code for efficient handling of keycap and modifier emojis. They also optimized the codebase by implementing a static map for caching resource identifiers to prevent redundant lookups, and they corrected a bug affecting the rendering of subsequent emojis.
emojiwhatsappandroidedittexttextview
pfives/emojicon
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
emojiwhatsappandroidedittexttextview
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