Marcel Pintó Biescas

Hola!

I am the founder of PiBi App Studio. I am a professional Software Engineer with +10 years of Android experience in multiple sectors like e-commerce, entertainment, and mobility, from startups to big-corp.

I started mobile development during my studies and progressed throughout my career as Individual Contributor and Team Lead from Startups and mid-size companies, to big corporations like Google.

Currently exploring my own business by building Apps powered by AI and offering mobile development consulting services.

Experience

Senior Developer Relations Engineer - Google

• Android Developer Relations Framework team lead.
  • Led a team of 5, covering the Framework areas of connectivity and performance. Working with stakeholder from Engineer and Product teams.
  • Created new resource for developer and worked with top partners.
  • Led the Android Platform Samples project.
• Android Developer Relations Privacy team lead.
  • Led a team of 3, covering Privacy and Storage areas.
  • Redesigned privacy developer resources and created the privacy week for Android Developers
  • Exposure Notifications Relations lead for Asia-Pacific
  • Part of the initial team that ideated, developed and collaborated with Apple to launch the Exposure Notifications (EN) system.
  • Worked with Governments and developer agencies to integrate EN using best practices.
• Developer Relations Engineer in the System UI team
  • Worked with Engineer and Product teams to redesign Widget for Android 12
  • Designed and developed together with Engineer team the new Jetpack Glance library to build widgets with Compose runtime.
  • Partner Developer Relations for South-East Asia Android partners
  • Collaborated with priority SEA Android partners to implement best practices, reduce app size and integrate new Google technologies (e.g. App Actions)

Lead Android Developer - HERE Techonlogies

• Lead Developer for the SoMo social mobility project.
  • Designed and developed multiple areas of the app
  • Worked with external agencies to establish best practices
  • Collaborated with Design and Product teams to redefine UX
• Lead Developer of the prototype project for Road Alerts
  • Developed initial app for Finland NordicWay project and acted as a Technical Product Owner.
  • Led a team of 3 developers to integrate Road Alerts SDK to HERE WeGo.
  • Designed and open sourced “OkSEE” a library for Server Side Events used by the project.
• Senior Developer for HERE White-label companion app
  • Built new features for a white-label driver companion app used by Jaguar and Landrover.

Senior Android Developer - EatFirst (Rocket Internet)

• Designed and built the consumer, back-office and driver apps
  • As the solo-dev in the team, I build from scratch 3 apps.
  • Built Android Wear app to track delivery
  • Built a release pipeline to automate tests and releases.
• Maintained initial MVP app
  • Joined the team as the first Android Developer and took over the consumer and driver apps from the Rocket Internet incubator team
  • Refactored and polished both apps in short time before the official launch

Android Developer - Engel Axil S.L

• Lead Android Developer
  • Lead a small team of 2 Android developers.
• Android Developer
  • Joined after the internship to build a custom launcher for the Android TV box and media-related apps
  • Created app for Bluetooth communication for TV antennas.
  • Created TV live-streaming app (Glocalia TV)
• Internship as Android Developer
  • 8-month internship where I built an Android App remote control for their Android TV setup box.