Ruben Gees
Software Engineer at SmartsquareGmbH
Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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RockstarRuben Gees is a software engineer based in Bielefeld, Germany, with 11 years of experience focused on Android, JVM (Kotlin) and JavaScript (Vue) development. He combines a nerdy enthusiasm for mobile platforms with a strong drive for automation and code quality, regularly contributing to open-source projects like the popular Emoji library where he improved Android support, skin tones, and customizable UI components. Comfortable across the stack, Ruben optimizes build systems and dependencies while shipping user-facing features, reflecting pragmatic engineering discipline. Colleagues know him for pragmatic improvements that boost maintainability and for quietly pushing developer ergonomics and testability in every codebase he touches.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (16)
emoji10
kotlin10
android-ui10
android10
gradlew9
dropdown-menu9
gradle9
material-design6
android-button6
scroll6
spinner6
android-recyclerview6
layoutmanager6
android-fragments6
android-layout6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
vanniktech/Emoji
Dec 2016 - May 2022
A library to add Emoji support to your Android / iOS / JVM Application
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:10 reviews, 35 commits, 40 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ruben's contributions primarily involve enhancing the "emoji" library for Android applications. They focused on code improvements, making colors customizable and optimizing the EmojiEditText and EmojiTextView. Further, they updated the Gradle and library dependencies. Also included were modifications for skin tone support in the emoji picker, and the incorporation of new emojis for the library.
emojikotlin-multiplatformandroidios-emojiskotlin
rubengees/helmup
Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:14 releases, 31 commits, 24 pushes in 2 months
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