Samantha Ching
Android Engineer at trivago
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolSamantha Ching is an Android engineer with 11 years of experience building polished mobile experiences across startups and scale-ups, currently contributing to trivago from Düsseldorf. She has held progressive Android roles including team lead responsibilities and senior engineering positions at companies like Trafi and upday, bringing both hands-on development and mentorship experience. Samantha’s work spans app architecture, feature delivery, and UI libraries—she’s the primary contributor to a lightweight Android indefinite pager indicator, adding RTL and vertical layouts and improving rendering quality. Comfortable across the stack from full-stack web work earlier in her career to deep Android UI expertise, she balances pragmatic product focus with clean, maintainable implementations. Having studied software engineering at Tecnológico de Costa Rica, she pairs formal training with a decade of practical, production-grade Android development. Colleagues value her for shipping thoughtful UI components that solve real localization and layout problems rather than just pushing features.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Software Engineering at Tecnológico de Costa Rica
English, Spanish, Portuguese, German
Github Skills (9)
kotlin10
viewpager10
uid10
recyclerview10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
android-recyclerview10
android10
rt9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
trivago/Heimdall.droid
Apr 2017 - Oct 2020
Easy to use OAuth 2 library for Android by trivago.
Contributions:8 releases, 136 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 6 months
oauth-2authenticationandroidtrivagooauth2
silexcorp/Android-Indefinite-Pager-Indicator
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
A lightweight, plug-and-play indefinite pager indicator for RecyclerViews & ViewPagers.
Contributions:19 commits in 1 day
recyclerviewviewpagerandroidplug-and-playkotlin
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