Summary
Vaan Waber is a Founder and Senior Android Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, user-focused mobile software from startups to global enterprises. He launched Palkoro, a native Android pixel art app, engineering a custom lightweight graphics engine and exploring Kotlin Multiplatform with Compose to bring a shared UI to web and mobile. At Caterpillar he modernized a global fleet-management app, migrating legacy Java/XML to Kotlin and Jetpack Compose and owning Play Store release management. Previously at WillowTree he shipped features for major consumer brands, acted as a bridge between design and product, and mentored junior engineers. He pairs strong academic grounding in CS and graduate studies in AI/ML with hands-on expertise in Kotlin, Android architecture, and performance-conscious native graphics. Based in Eugene, Oregon, he’s actively seeking opportunities in the US and abroad and brings a mix of entrepreneurial drive and production-grade engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Level Studies, AI & Machine Learning, Graduate Level Studies, AI & Machine Learning at Oregon State University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer and Information Sciences, General, 4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer and Information Sciences, General, 4.0 at East Tennessee State University