Summary
Xi Wei is a Staff Android Engineer with 11 years of software experience and a decade-plus focus on Android, currently shaping platform work at Toast after driving major architecture and language migrations at GameChanger. He specializes in modern Android stacks—Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, StateFlow, Coroutines—and has hands-on experience integrating media with ExoPlayer and modularizing large apps to improve build times and maintainability. Beyond coding, he’s a practiced mentor and educator, having taught Java/Android at Teachers College, founded recurring Android learning forums at multiple companies, and promoted testing and pair programming to raise team quality. Xi also contributes cross-functionally to backend and iOS work when needed and runs a business book club to connect technical and leadership development, showing a rare blend of technical depth and people-first engineering culture.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Master's Degree, Computing in Education, Master's Degree, Computing in Education at Teachers College of Columbia University
English, Chinese