Yuri Schimke
Engineering Manager at Google
London, England, United Kingdom
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Yuri Schimke is an Engineering Manager at Google in London with 11 years of hands-on experience across backend, security, and Android mobile development. He combines leadership with deep engineering chops—evidenced by code contributions to high-profile projects like Square’s okhttp and okio, Conscrypt, and RSocket that improved TLS/HTTP2 resilience, encoding correctness, and test robustness. Yuri’s work spans production-grade networking, JVM security, and Kotlin Multiplatform/Wear OS UI, showing a rare mix of protocol-level expertise and platform-focused UX improvements. He has a practical eye for refactoring and resilience, from fixing subtle ByteBuffer/charset bugs to simplifying filesystem and path handling. As an “itinerant developer” he frequently moves between code, tests, and product teams, translating complex edge cases into reliable implementations. Colleagues rely on him to harden systems and mentor teams while still contributing meaningful patches to open-source ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
English
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Github Skills (65)
mobile-development10
testing10
http10
wearos10
file-operations10
security10
javas10
junit10
media-player10
android-compose10
exoplayer10
jetpack10
compose10
bytebuffer10
uid10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
rsocket/rsocket-java
May 2016 - Jun 2020
Java implementation of RSocket
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 15 reviews, 100 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Yuri contributed extensively to the Java-based RSocket implementation. Their work involved consistently applying `StandardCharsets.UTF_8` for character encoding across various files, fixing null-terminated strings, and resolving issues related to exception handling. They also refactored code to use "remaining" instead of "capacity" for `ByteBuffer` operations and added test cases, including those for hex frame header encoding, demonstrating a focus on improving code quality and robustness.
rxjavastreamsrsocketwebsocketnetty
android/wear-os-samples
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Multiple samples showing best practices in app and watch face development on Wear OS.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:325 reviews, 91 commits, 769 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Yuri's commits primarily involve updating Wear OS sample applications, focusing on the implementation and modification of UI components. They've updated previews, layouts and components to align with Wear OS best practices and updated library versions, demonstrating a focus on UI improvements and adherence to platform standards. The commits demonstrate the developer's involvement in the Compose UI toolkit for Wear OS, and the integration of Google Maps. Additionally the user added various features and demo examples for user input elements (like date/time pickers, voice input, etc.).
wearandroidwear-osfacewatch-face
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