Vincent Rickey
Staff Software Engineer (Android) at The Wall Street Journal
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Rickey is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in Android with 13 years’ experience and a decade focused on mobile engineering for consumer-scale products. He leads large, cross-functional teams and has set technical direction for 50+ Android engineers across a 150-person global department at Dow Jones, driving a Compose & GraphQL white‑label platform used by four major news apps. Vincent is an early adopter of Jetpack Compose and Kotlin, known for replacing legacy subscription flows with a hybrid web-based “WebShop” and for shipping 100,000+ lines of platform code. He blends hands-on engineering—multithreaded performance tuning, test-pyramid strategies, CI/CD and billing/auth integration—with product-minded features like server‑driven UI and accessibility-first design systems. An active open-source maintainer, his GitHub and public resume showcase practical tooling and libraries that reflect his emphasis on modular, maintainable architectures. He pairs a humanities background with international study, which informs his clear technical writing and collaborative leadership across distributed teams.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy and French, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy and French at University of PortlandStudied abroad with IES Abroad in Nantes France., Studied abroad with IES Abroad in Nantes France. at Nantes UniversitéCELTA Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults, CELTA Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults at University of Cambridge ESOL, Teaching House NYC
English, French
Github Skills (22)
java9
kotlin9
android-app9
android9
jetpack-compose8
styles8
alphabet8
mvvm-architecture8
jvm7
mvvm7
http-client7
coroutines6
design-tokens6
authentication6
api5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vrickey123/Leap
Nov 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:1 release, 32 PRs, 265 pushes in 3 years 5 months
english-alphabetpronunciationandroidandroid-appkotlin
vrickey123/vrickey123.github.io
May 2013 - Oct 2022
Resume and Portfolio website built with React-Bootstrap
Contributions:726 commits, 60 PRs, 446 pushes in 9 years 5 months
reactbuilt-with-reactcssreact-bootstrapreactjs
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