Richard Bridge
Android Engineer at Square
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Bridge is a Staff Software Engineer based in Ireland with 11 years of experience designing and shipping Android and mobile SDKs across fast-moving product teams. He progressed through multiple roles at Zendesk to senior mobile SDK work, then built Android products at Squarespace and Square before joining Toast in a staff engineering capacity. Known for integrating smoothly into teams, he combines hands-on engineering with natural leadership and a taste for complex, user-facing challenges. His background in music education and years as a performing singer and teacher bring unusual strengths in communication, discipline, and empathy to technical collaboration. Equally comfortable in product-driven startups and large platforms, he focuses on reliable, maintainable mobile systems that scale.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Diploma, Computing (Conversion), Higher Diploma, Computing (Conversion) at Dublin Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Music Education, Music Teacher Education, Bachelor of Music Education, Music Teacher Education at Trinity College, Dublin
English, French, German, Irish
Stackoverflow
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1answer
1question
Github Skills (30)
kotlin10
android-sdk10
java9
sdk9
android9
android-library8
zendesk8
image7
material-design6
progress-bar6
custom-view5
annotation-processor5
image-picker5
discord-js4
rating4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bridgeri127/intellij-settings
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:285 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
bridgeri127/KotlinNativeTestAndroid
Aug 2018 - Oct 2021
Android app demonstrating consuming a cross platform Kotlin library defined outside of the project
Contributions:13 PRs, 7 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 3 months
definedandroidandroid-appkotlinkotlin-android
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