Tor Norbye
Software Engineer at Google
Dublin, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarTor Norbye is an experienced software engineer and engineering director for Android Studio at Google with 15 years building developer tools and Android platform integrations. Based in Dublin, California, he blends hands-on contributions—like lint checks, quickfixes, and annotations across Android and IntelliJ projects—with leadership of a major IDE product. His open-source work shows deep attention to code quality and tooling: adding rich annotations, modernizing custom lint rules (including a Java-to-Kotlin migration), and improving build tooling in AOSP. Equally comfortable in back-end and IDE-focused code, he quietly drives developer productivity through small, high-leverage changes that reduce bugs and improve API clarity.
15 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (28)
kotlin10
unit-testing10
annotations10
testing10
plugin-development10
software-quality10
android-development10
intellij-idea10
java10
plugin10
javas10
android10
xml10
linting10
build-tools10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/android
Jan 2013 - Sep 2021
Android Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. This repository is a subset of https://git.jetbrains.org/?p=idea/android.git cut according to GitHub file size limitations.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:13263 commits in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Tor primarily contributed to the Android plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, focusing on linting and quickfixes. They implemented and tested functionality to allow quickfixes to create new files, which involved modifications to the AndroidLintInspectionBase and supporting test files. Additionally, the user registered new lint checks as IDE inspections, such as for file extension and assertion side effect, and updated code to use new constants.
file-sizeandroid-studiointellij-ideaandroid-pluginandroid
googlesamples/android-custom-lint-rules
Aug 2017 - Aug 2022
This sample demonstrates how to create a custom lint checks and corresponding lint tests
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:4 reviews, 70 commits, 104 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Tor primarily contributed to the project by updating and refactoring existing lint checks for Android development, including tests. They made changes to adapt to newer versions of Gradle and the Android Gradle Plugin. These updates included switching from Java to Kotlin for lint checks, adopting newer APIs, and flattening the project structure for improved organization. They also enhanced documentation and added support for the latest features in Android Studio.
linterlintchecksstatic-analysis
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