Raul Portales
Principal Software Engineer at Workday
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
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RockstarRaul Portales is a Principal Software Engineer based in Dublin with 13 years of experience building mobile-first, data-driven products and leading engineering teams at Workday and Oneview Healthcare. A longtime Android specialist and Google Developer Expert in Android (since 2014) and IoT (since 2018), he blends hands-on development with architecture, CI/CD and product-focused MVP delivery. He founded Platty Soft and shipped popular apps and libraries—most notably Leonids, a widely used Android particle system—and has a track record of successful indie games that garnered millions of downloads. Raul is a public speaker and neurodiversity advocate who relentlessly fights bad UX, especially in novel contexts like hands-free AR on the Daqri Smart Helmet. He mentors teams, drives agile practices, and thrives at the intersection of design, hardware and software to turn bold concepts into validated products.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (11)
javas10
android-development10
java10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
animation9
uid9
eclipse6
android6
adt6
crash6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
plattysoft/Leonids
Oct 2013 - Sep 2018
A Particle System for standard Android UI: http://plattysoft.github.io/Leonids/
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:3 releases, 167 commits, 13 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Raul primarily contributed to the development of a particle system for Android applications. Their commits show the creation of core classes such as `ParticleSystem`, `Particle`, and `ParticleField` to manage and render the particles. They implemented features like setting speed, angle, scale, rotation, and applying modifiers. They added multiple example activities, including one shot, and emitter examples to show functionality of the system.
android-uiparticle-system
plattysoft/Modern-MSX-BASIC-Game-Dev
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
Examples, demos and scripts from the book "Modern MSX-BASIC Game Development"
Contributions:45 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
game-developmentmsxmsx-basic
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