Abdoulaye O. LY
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorAbdoulaye Ly is a software engineer with 10 years of experience, currently working at Microsoft in Seattle and completing a master's in computer science at Université de Moncton. He has a strong track record in mobile development and UI performance, contributing meaningful fixes and features to high-profile open-source projects like Firefox for Android and Firefox Focus. His background spans research and applied engineering roles—including internships and research positions at Mozilla and the PRIME lab—where he honed debugging, troubleshooting, and analytical skills. Abdoulaye combines production-grade Android expertise with research-driven problem solving, having implemented UI optimizations, bug fixes, and feature enhancements that improve user experience at scale. He also brings a teaching streak from tutoring high school students in web and mobile development and an early global perspective from fellowships like Huawei’s Seeds for the Future.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
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uid10
android-sdk10
mobile-development10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
android10
java10
kotlin9
browser9
github4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla-mobile/focus-android
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
⚠️ Firefox Focus (Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 74 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Abdoulaye contributed to the Firefox Focus Android app by implementing UI improvements, fixing bugs, and adding new features. Their work involved optimizing the progress bar, adding UI resources for dialogs, and resolving flickering issues in the user interface. They also added an option to open URLs in Firefox Focus from custom tabs and implemented functionality to disable the trash can icon in the search engine settings until a search engine is selected.
androidfirefoxfirefox-androidmobilebrowser
mozilla-mobile/firefox-android
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
:warning: This repository hosts the Firefox for Android (Fenix), Focus for Android, and Mozilla Android Components projects. It is now developed and maintained as part of Mozilla Central. See the announcement here: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/wiki#upcoming-migration-to-mozilla-central. ”
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:7 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Abdoulaye primarily contributed to the Firefox for Android project by addressing UI and functional issues. Their work included performance improvements for the progress bar, adding UI resources for dialogs, fixing URL bar and status bar flickering issues, and implementing functionality to disable the trash can icon based on search engine selection. The user also added an option within the Custom Tabs to open the URL in Firefox Focus.
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