Andy Byrnes

Andy Byrnes is currently an Android Developer at Whatnot. Prior to that, they were a Staff Engineer at GOAT Group from January 2018 to February 2021. Andy has also worked as an Android Developer at Wag Labs Inc. from October 2017 to January 2018 and mobileforming from October 2016 to October 2017.

Andy has experience working on the transition from Ionic to native code (Java and Kotlin) for the Wag Owner and Walker Android apps. Andy has also aided in introducing reactive programming for more than api calls. In addition, they introduced the Model-View-Presenter and Model-View-Intent design patterns to abstract away business logic from view logic.

At mobileforming, they built small Android modules that encapsulated different features of the applications. The modules were built with customizability in mind and the intent of rapidly developing several similar applications with a different look and feel. Andy also introduced Dagger2 and RxJava into the modules. Lastly, they participated in writing unit tests and UI tests to mitigate regression bugs as well as the time spent on manual regression testing.

Andy Byrnes has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma and a Computer Science degree from Santa Monica College.