Steven Dobek is a Senior Android Developer with 11 years of experience designing and delivering scalable, maintainable Android systems used by millions daily, currently shaping core playback and safety features at Tubi. He led architecture and ownership of Kids Mode, translating regulatory and parental-control requirements into durable, testable Android implementations, and migrated analytics to Protobuf for robust event reliability. His work spans consumer mobile, Android TV/Fire TV, OTT, and even Android Automotive, influencing cross-device playback and casting behaviors. Previously he bootstrapped Tenor’s Android presence—building a floating GIF keyboard integration and media capture tooling—and served as the sole Android engineer at SmartPay, demonstrating end-to-end product ownership. Comfortable stepping into hybrid engineering-manager roles during high-visibility events, he balances deep technical craft with cross-functional collaboration and a knack for pragmatic, long-lived solutions. Outside work he contributes to mods like Fallout Fixt, showing a hands-on, community-oriented appetite for creative engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Maryland
Contributions:4 releases, 81 commits, 56 pushes in 11 months
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