Principal Eng at Uber - Mobile, AI, FOSS, Dev Productivity & Dev Relations
Advisor, Investor, Founder, Public Speaker, FOSS Foundations
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Iām building out Uber's first dedicated Kotlin Language platform team in our Amsterdam office to make Kotlin first class across Bazel, IDE, LSPs, Android, KMP, AI language migrations, backend services, and to help in the Kotlin Foundation.
Apply here: https://www.uber.com/careers/list/136536?uclick_id=cea600a0-53be-48c9-8124-e7ee1e5763a1
The Android SF meetup is meeting tonight to talk about AI based testing with some great speakers from Uber.
NVIDIA transitions fully towards open-source GPU Linux kernel modules
It's a bit of a Linux news day today - it happens - but this one is good news we can all be happy about. After earning a bad reputation for mishandling its Linux graphics drivers for years, almost decades, NVIDIA has been turning the ship around these past two years, and today they made a major annou
The @droidcon SF Call for Papers closes soon. Get your talk in now!
Due to the large performance benefits, we early upgraded all of Uber's mobile engineers to the M1 Max (64gb) a few years ago which gave 2x the build perf vs previous gen intel.
Some of those folks are coming up for refreshers, so we did a new analysis vs the M3 Max (64gb) and we're seeing about 35% reduction in build times vs the previous cohort.
Screenshots from our benchmark harness which tests clean builds and several different build graph invalidations to mimic common dev flows.
In the Devx space and excited to get back to in-person meetups in SF?
This will be a great set of Dev Productivity talks with speakers from Netflix, Airbnb, and Uber!
Come out next! https://event.gradle.com/dpeforumsanfrancisco
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