Toby Hsieh
Software Engineer at Fountain
San Leandro, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolToby Hsieh is a pragmatic software engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable backend systems and shipping product-facing features across startups and mid-size tech companies. He has held senior engineering and site reliability roles at companies like Square, Academia.edu, Lookout, and Bugsnag, and now contributes at Fountain from the San Leandro/Bay Area. Comfortable across the stack, Toby pairs production-focused backend expertise with hands-on improvements to user experience—evidenced by Android UI contributions to the popular open-source Vanilla Music Player. He brings a track record of moving systems to scale and improving observability and reliability, while remaining detail-oriented about UX and developer experience. A UC Berkeley computer science graduate, he combines deep operational knowledge with pragmatic feature delivery.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (11)
javas10
uid10
android-sdk10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
android10
java10
dialogfragment10
context-menu9
kotlin9
sqlite8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vanilla-music/vanilla
Apr 2018 - Feb 2020
Vanilla Music Player for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Toby primarily focused on enhancing the Vanilla Music Player for Android. Their contributions centered around implementing UI improvements, specifically adding song duration display in various parts of the application such as the queue, playlist, and album view. They also added a "Jump to Time" dialog, improving user interaction. Furthermore, they introduced a context menu for showing song details.
vanillaandroidkotlinmusicmusic-player
tobyhs/github-comment-counter
Jun 2016 - Jun 2023
A tool for counting Pull Request Review Comments performed by an organization's GitHub users
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 1 month
request-reviewreviewperformedpull-requestspull-request
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