Patrick Steiger
Staff Software Engineer at Hot Apps Nearby - Free Android App
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolPatrick Steiger is a Staff Software Engineer at Uber with 11 years of experience building mobile-first products and platform features, particularly on Android. He holds a Computer Science degree from the Federal University of Bahia and has shipped multiple solo Android apps (including Freelapp and Hot Apps Nearby) that demonstrate product thinking beyond pure engineering. Comfortable across languages (PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, C) and deeply familiar with the Linux ecosystem, he bridges app development with server and networking operations. His background includes OEM/Carrier Android integration work on AOSP, secure onboarding flows and liveness checks for fintech, and public-health mobile projects that handled large datasets. An early open-source volunteer with Debian-BR, he brings a pragmatic, community-minded approach to engineering and a long-running curiosity for new languages and tooling. Based in Toronto, he combines hands-on implementation skills with experience shipping user-facing products and complex platform integrations.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Universidade Federal da BahiaDiplomata
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (113)
kotlin-language10
architectural-patterns10
mvc10
mvp10
kotlin-library10
dialogs10
kotlin-coroutines10
async10
architecture10
location10
kotlin-multiplatform10
coroutines10
android-apps10
location-services10
android-sdk10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
psteiger/animate-on-scroll
May 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:40 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
DiscordTime/ggdrive
May 2020 - May 2021
A command-line script for Google Drive, for downloading and uploading files directly from the terminal.
Contributions:2 releases, 29 reviews, 20 commits in 1 year
downloadingpythongoogle-driveterminaluploading
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