Siyamed Sinir
Founding Engineer at Monogram
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSiyamed Sinir is a founding engineer and seasoned software leader with 14 years of experience building Android UI, text, and search systems, now blending AI with product-focused UI at Monogram in San Francisco. Formerly an engineering manager at Google, he led and scaled Android’s text infrastructure from a small team to a core platform group, shipping features across Android 8–15 and improving font, internationalization, and developer experience across Jetpack Compose and legacy Views. He brings deep low-level expertise in Java and Android—contributing to Android support libraries and the Flutter engine with a focus on memory and performance optimizations. A repeat founder and hands-on implementer, Siyamed has shipped high‑scale consumer apps (millions of installs) and built search and knowledge-graph systems earlier in his career. Known for translating research-grade systems into production-quality APIs, he pairs product empathy with pragmatic engineering to move complex UI and text problems forward.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science & Engineering, B.S. Computer Science & Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
English, Turkish
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Github Skills (20)
c-language10
fonts10
lib10
android-sdk10
java10
javas10
font-face10
performance-optimization10
cplus10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
memory-management9
flutter-engine9
android-listview6
listview6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aosp-mirror/platform_frameworks_support
Feb 2017 - Jul 2019
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:461 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Siyamed primarily contributed to the Android support libraries, focusing on low-level platform support. They implemented utility classes for the EmojiCompat library. The user also made changes related to providing the font and handling for extract views for the appcompat library. The user's work focused on core functionality and general code enhancements.
flutter/engine
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
The Flutter engine
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Siyamed's commits primarily revolve around reverting and merging changes related to memory optimization within the Flutter engine's font handling. This involved modifying the `FontCollection` and related files to address memory usage concerns. The user also reverted changes related to variation sequences. The contributions suggest a focus on improving the engine's performance and stability by addressing memory-related issues.
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