I am a Senior Android Engineer with over 14 years of experience in designing and deploying high-quality mobile applications. I specialize in Kotlin, Clean Architecture, and Jetpack Compose, currently leading mobile innovation at BlaBlaCar.
- At BlaBlaCar: Leading high-impact technical initiatives including Hilt migration, Jetpack Compose adoption, and significant build performance optimizations.
- App Resilience: Implementing strategies to make Android applications resilient to process death.
- Developer Experience: Streamlining workflows with OpenAPI codegen, custom WebView bridges and AI agents.
- Droidcon Berlin & London (2025): "A pragmatic approach to WebViews: fast-tracking features in mobile apps".
- Medium Article: "How to make your Android app resilient to process death".
- Medium Article: "Reducing the build time of BlaBlaCar's Android app".
- PAUG Meetup: "Our road to experience-based APIs".
- Languages: Kotlin (Expert), Java (Expert), C++, SQL.
- Android: Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Hilt, MVVM, Clean Architecture, RxJava.
- Tools: Gradle, Git, CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub), Firebase, Datadog, BigQuery.
Before focusing on mobile, I developed mission-critical software for major industrial leaders:
- Aerospace: Flight performance software for Dassault Aviation (Falcon range) and Airbus (A400M, LTS-NG).
- Satellite Systems: Engineered messaging systems for satellite test benches at Thales Alenia Space.
- Smart Energy: Served as Scrum Master for the ERDF Linky administration interface.
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/pbrochado
- Email: patrick.brochado@gmail.com