Paul Hawke
Android Lead at Yembo
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Hawke is an Android lead and technical manager with 13+ years of experience delivering polished, user-facing mobile products and shaping teams to move from concept to production quickly. He excels early in the lifecycle—cracking hard problems, defining direction, and keeping delivery momentum—while also hiring and mentoring engineers who share his product-first rigor. A hands-on full-stack mobile developer, Paul pairs pixel-perfect GUI work with backend and tooling contributions, from crash-reporting in a Kotlin Xcode plugin to refinements in the Wikimedia Commons Android app and the tiny Java HTTP server NanoHTTPD. His background spans startups and large enterprises, including leadership at Touchlab and World Wide Technology and a current role applying AI-driven virtual home surveys at Yembo. Unusually for a mobile lead, he also blends formal study in theology and church leadership with a long technical pedigree, reflecting a pragmatic, people-centered approach to software delivery.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Blandford Upper SchoolTheology & Church Leadership, Theology & Church Leadership at Vineyard Leadership InstituteBachelor of Science - BS Computer Aided Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Aided Chemistry at University of Surrey
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Github Skills (20)
espresso10
kotlin10
xcode-plugin10
apidoc10
http10
java10
javas10
api10
android10
error-handling10
kotlin-android10
test-automation10
kotlin-multiplatform9
logging9
nethttp9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
NanoHttpd/nanohttpd
Jan 2013 - May 2014
Tiny, easily embeddable HTTP server in Java.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:141 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the core Java code of the NanoHTTPD project. Their work focused on updating and refining the main Java file, including adding Javadoc, fixing potential null pointer exceptions, and introducing enums for methods and HTTP status values. The user also made improvements related to cleanup and polish, which helped improve code readability and structure.
http-clienttinyhttp2niohttpd
agoda-com/Kakao
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Nice and simple DSL for Espresso in Kotlin
Role in this project:Test Automation Engineer
Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Paul's commits center around refactoring and restructuring the testing framework "Kakao" for Espresso in Kotlin. They moved and reorganized files to improve the project's structure, separating builders, actions, assertions, and views into distinct packages and files. This included refactoring of the matchers and the creation of a cleaner API for tests.
kotlin-multiplatformdslkotlinespressoui-testing
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