Richard Willis

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Senior Engineering Manager at Databricks · Mobile apps

Databricks
Boston, MA · ET (UTC-5)
11+ years experience
Virginia Tech
English
Advising
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Overview

Senior Engineering Manager at Databricks, focused on mobile apps. Wrote the Gradle service that now handles 15 million requests a day. Before that: PepsiCo and Pinterest.

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  • Advice on mobile apps
  • Second opinions on Gradle decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • SEO and link-building offers

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
GradleMVVMKotlinJetpack ComposeCoroutines
AdvisingOpen to advising
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Office hours for new engineering managers: mobile apps and Kotlin

Topics
mobile apps, Jetpack Compose, Gradle
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Calls
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
A few async reviews a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

11 years of mobile apps. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Mar 2024 - Present
    Databricks · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Led the migration of 63 services to Gradle.
    • Shipped 27 launches on the Android team without a rollback.
  2. Staff Android Engineer
    Nov 2021 - Mar 2024
    PepsiCo · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Took crash-free sessions from 96.2% to 99.9%.
  3. Android Engineer
    Jan 2019 - Nov 2021
    Pinterest · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Reduced cloud spend on Android by 25% in two quarters.
  4. Android Engineer
    Apr 2017 - Jan 2019
    Uber · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Moved 68% of Android traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Wrote the MVVM service that now handles 76 million requests a day.
  5. Android Engineer
    Oct 2015 - Apr 2017
    American Express · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Brought on-call pages for Android down from 13 a week to 2.
    • Moved 90% of Android traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. Virginia Tech
    BS, Information Technology
    2011 - 2015

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