Simona Milanović is a Senior Android Developer Relations Engineer at Google with eight years of hands-on Android experience and a strong focus on Jetpack Compose. She has progressed from industry-facing Android roles at Bumble and Kin + Carta to shaping developer tooling and samples at Google, contributing to high-profile repos like Now in Android and the official Compose samples. Her open-source work includes implementing user-facing features with Jetpack Compose and modernizing sample projects and build tooling, demonstrating both UI craftsmanship and attention to code quality. Based in London, she combines developer advocacy with pragmatic engineering, bridging product teams and the Android community. An early background in event management and classical guitar hints at her blend of organizational skill and creative discipline.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Music school "Josip Slavenski"
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Belgrade
A fully functional Android app built entirely with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:8 reviews, 18 commits, 4 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Simona primarily focused on developing features within the Now in Android application, specifically implementing the Following - Topics feature. This involved creating UI components using Jetpack Compose, integrating with data models, and adding functionality for users to follow and unfollow topics. The user's commits also include changes to UI tests, demonstrating their involvement in ensuring the correct behavior of the Following screen.
Contributions:1 release, 30 reviews, 10 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Simona primarily contributed to updating and maintaining Jetpack Compose samples within the `android/compose-samples` repository. Their work involved migrating the samples to newer versions of Compose and related libraries like Accompanist. The user also updated the dependencies across multiple sample projects, ensuring compatibility with the latest Compose features, and also updated build scripts to incorporate tooling like spotless and ktlint for code quality improvements.
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