Ygor Barboza
Software Engineer at Spotify
Spain
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolYgor Barboza is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience and a decade focused on Android development, currently building at Spotify from his base in Spain. He blends deep mobile expertise in Kotlin, RxJava and modern architectures (MVP/MVVM) with backend experience in Elixir, DDD and microservices tooling like RabbitMQ and CockroachDB. Ygor has led small cross-functional teams to rewrite React Native apps to native Android, introduced robust testing and dependency management, and helped scale products at Nubank and Loggi. He contributes to open-source mobile tooling—improving Android share behavior in the widely used react-native-share repo—demonstrating attention to secure file sharing and intent handling. A proactive teacher and mentor, he has a history of founding teams, running solo Android squads, and delivering lightweight apps that drive measurable user retention. Driven by user experience and maintainable code, he reads widely (Android Weekly, Hacker News, peers) to keep the platforms and practices current.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (8)
javas10
fileprovider10
react-native10
shared10
android10
java10
appintents9
android-sdk9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
react-native-share/react-native-share
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Social share, sending simple data to other apps.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 13 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ygor primarily focused on enhancing the Android share functionality of the React Native application. Their work involved integrating the FileProvider for secure file sharing, updating package dependencies, and correcting URI handling for shared files. The user also updated sharing intent logic and the application to correctly share files.
social-networkreactuwpreact-nativebridge
ygorbarboza/AKParallax-Android
May 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 9 months
parallaximageviewscrollviewandroid-libraryandroid
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