Pilju Bae
Staff Engineer at Kurly
Seoul Incheon Metropolitan Area South Korea
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolPilju Bae is a Staff Engineer and seasoned Android specialist with 10 years of experience delivering high-performance, user-focused mobile experiences across major consumer apps. He excels at solving deep UI and performance challenges—minimizing Jetpack Compose recompositions, pooling and preloading ExoPlayer instances, and tuning cold start and screen load times—while driving measurable improvements like a 50% crash reduction and 30% faster cold starts. His work spans e-commerce and social platforms (Coupang, eBay Japan, NAVER Z/ZEPETO) and includes building design systems, device-aware logging for root-cause analysis, and global app launches using multi-flavor Gradle pipelines. Curious about the intersection of AI and developer productivity, he experiments with integrating Gemini APIs into Compose and rethinking prototyping with AI. Active in the Android community as a GDG organizer, mentor, and presenter, he combines system-level efficiency with a keen eye for delightful UX.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Semiconductor-Science, Economics, Bachelor, Semiconductor-Science, Economics at Dongguk University
English
Github Skills (9)
kotlin10
uid10
jetpack-compose10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
android10
material-design9
ui-theme8
wordpress-themes8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gdgand/ComposeFest2021
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
DevFest 2021 ComposeFest 코드랩 Repo 입니다
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:45 commits, 6 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Pilju's commits primarily focus on developing Android applications using Jetpack Compose. They are involved in implementing UI components, including layouts, text elements, and interactive elements like buttons and icons. The commits demonstrate work on various UI-related features, code structure, and theming.
kotlindevfest
gdgand/ComposeCamp2022
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
https://gdg.community.dev/e/m55vvm/
Contributions:13 commits, 9 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 months
gdgdev-communitydev
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