Aug 2021 - Present
Matt McKenna
- @mattm
- Senior Android Developer
- Baltimore, MD
- he/him
Resume
View allJun 2020 - Aug 2021
Senior Android Developer, Comcast/NBC Universal
Mar 2017 - Jun 2020
Android Developer, Comcast/NBC Universal
May 2016 - Mar 2017
Android Developer, Possible Mobile
Portfolio
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Featured in Kotlin Weekly #298! https://mailchi.mp/kotlinweekly/kotlin-weekly-298
Got featured on the Android Developers LinkedIn page!
I am featured in Android Weekly #497 for my blog post Android Emulators vs Bluetooth Headphones.
Set up a custom domain for my newsletter! https://newsletter.stoicallytyped.com
My 2021 Highlights
Hosted a Twitter Space with Adam McNeilly talking about Android and all of the announcements at Google I/O. It went for two and a half hours!
My article Learning Live Templates for Jetpack Compose was featured in Android Weekly #465 https://androidweekly.net/issues/issue-465
Issue #1 of the StoicallyTyped Newsletter is published. ““Acquire the habit of attending carefully to what is being said by another, and of entering, so far as possible, into the mind of the speaker"”
Blog Posts
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Published Android Emulators vs Bluetooth Headphones https://blog.mmckenna.me/android-emulators-vs-bluetooth-headphones
I wrote a blog post about The Advent of Code in Kotlin! Stay tuned for more updates! https://blog.mmckenna.me/advent-of-code-2021-in-kotlin
Published Effective Naming of Booleans
Published Magically turn your phone into a tablet with adb for testing tablet views!
Twitter Spaces
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Co-hosted a Twitter Space about careers in Android and other random Android topics! https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OyJADnbjEzGb
Co-hosted a Twitter Space with guest, Dan Kim. This Space was about making the transition from an Individual Contributor to an Engineering Manager.
Started off 2022Co-hosted a Twitter Space about AndroidDev Live Streams! We talked with Adam McNeilly and the Code with the Italians duo Sebastiano and Ivan
Co-Hosted a Twitter Space about Android Dev at Huawei
StoicallyTyped Newsletter
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Wrote and published issue 36 of StoicallyTyped! https://newsletter.stoicallytyped.com/issues/there-are-two-days-in-the-year-that-we-can-not-do-anything-yesterday-and-tomorrow-1004137
Wrote and published issue 35 of StoicallyTyped! https://newsletter.stoicallytyped.com/issues/never-let-the-future-disturb-you-you-will-meet-it-990571
Wrote and published issue 34 of StoicallyTyped! https://newsletter.stoicallytyped.com/issues/look-well-into-thyself-there-is-a-source-of-strength-980089
Published issue #33 of the StoicallyTyped newsletter! ““It does not matter how slow you go as long as you do not stop.” –Confucius”