Renas Reda
Principal Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarRenas Reda is a Principal Software Engineer in San Francisco with 16 years of experience building developer productivity tooling, mobile test platforms, and large-scale test automation. He founded Robotium and Flank—open-source projects that transformed Android test automation—and led creation of R2, a mobile testing platform adopted by over 40% of Walmart’s Android and iOS teams (with an associated patent). At Walmart he progressed from developer and team lead to engineering manager, tech lead, and now principal, consistently blending hands-on DevOps/automation work with strategic technical leadership. His contributions include cloud-first CI/CD scripts and Firebase Test Lab integrations that dramatically reduced test execution time. Renas pairs entrepreneurial instincts with deep expertise in mobile testing frameworks and developer efficiency at enterprise scale.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (21)
gcloud10
gcp10
automation10
gsutil10
automations10
firebase10
testing9
android9
junit9
test-automation9
gradlew8
gradle8
java7
javas7
eclipse6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Flank/flank
Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
:speedboat: Massively parallel Android and iOS test runner for Firebase Test Lab
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:128 commits, 73 PRs, 115 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Renas primarily contributed to the project by implementing and modifying automation tools, specifically related to cloud infrastructure and test execution. Their work includes the creation and modification of scripts utilizing `gsutil` for file management and the `gcloud` command-line tool for Firebase testing. They focused on enhancing the testing process by introducing environment variables, fetching artifacts and updating the README.
gradletest-runneriosrunnerfirebase-test-lab
RobotiumTech/robotium
Jan 2010 - Sep 2016
Android UI Testing
Contributions:923 commits, 16 PRs, 110 pushes in 6 years 9 months
android-uitestingandroidkotlinui-testing
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