Philippe Breault
Staff Engineer at American Express
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolPhilippe Breault is a Staff Engineer based in Montreal with 11 years of mobile-first engineering experience, specializing in Android development, Java, automated testing and Agile (Scrum) practices. He has progressed from hands-on mobile developer roles to senior and staff engineering at American Express, consistently shipping robust Android features and improving developer workflows. An active open-source contributor, he maintains fixes and modernizations for the adb-idea plugin—upgrading dependencies, converting tests to Kotlin and keeping compatibility with recent Android Studio releases. Comfortable balancing legacy compatibility and modern tooling, Philippe brings practical engineering leadership and a track record of accelerating both developer productivity and product quality.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, Software Engineering, Baccalauréat, Software Engineering at École de technologie supérieure
English, French
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Github Skills (7)
kotlin10
android-development10
android-studio-plugin10
gradlew9
gradle9
debug9
debugging9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pbreault/adb-idea
Apr 2016 - Sep 2022
A plugin for Android Studio and Intellij IDEA that speeds up your day to day android development.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:42 releases, 4 reviews, 53 commits in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Philippe primarily contributed to bug fixes and compatibility updates for the `adb-idea` Android Studio plugin. They addressed issues related to device selection in Android Studio versions 3.4 and 3.6, and also updated dependencies to Gradle 6.1.1 and Kotlin 1.3.61. Furthermore, the user converted tests and actions to Kotlin, and made improvements for compatibility with Android Studio Dolphin and later.
android-studiointellij-ideadayandroidkotlin
pbreault/gww
Jan 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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