Roland Meyer
Android Engineer at Threema
Regensdorf, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolRoland Meyer is an Android Engineer with 11 years of experience building clean, testable mobile software that solves real-world problems, currently working at Threema in Zurich. He favors modern, typed languages like Kotlin and TypeScript and has shipped production Android features and UX improvements across startups and scale-ups including Beekeeper, Flatfox and SMG. Roland contributes to open-source Android tooling—most notably enhancements to the popular HTTP Shortcuts app where he implemented new variable types, response actions and TCP integrations—demonstrating a knack for practical, network-aware mobile solutions. Trained at ETH Zürich with a Master’s in Computer Science, he blends academic rigor with hands-on product focus and a pragmatic eye for maintainable code.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at ETH Zürich
English, German, Spanish, French
Github Skills (17)
kotlin10
mobile-development10
variable-length10
variable-binding10
android-sdk10
android-development10
variable-selection10
android10
variable-width10
native-android10
variable-substitution10
ui-design9
http-request9
front-end-development9
uid9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Waboodoo/HTTP-Shortcuts
Apr 2015 - Jan 2023
Android app to create home screen shortcuts that trigger arbitrary HTTP requests and more
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:117 releases, 13 reviews, 1148 commits in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Roland primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of an Android application. Their work focused on implementing new features, such as adding support for a "Slider" variable type, adding a full set of actions for handling the application's response, including the ability to send TCP packets to communicate with other network devices. Additionally, the user was involved in bug fixes and code improvements, and also implemented improvements to the user experience.
android-apphomescreenandroidhttp-requestshttp-client
beekpr/emoji
May 2016 - Jun 2019
emoji terminal output for Python
Contributions:16 releases, 24 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 years 1 month
terminalemojipythoncli
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