El Zhang
Founder at BinaryTape
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolEl Zhang is a Member of Technical Staff and seasoned mobile engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in Android, Kotlin, and Gradle who now splits his time between Mewtant and his consultancy BinaryTape. A former Senior Software Engineer at Visa, he architected multiple apps and an SDK, led cross-platform marketing mobile efforts, and pioneered AI and NFT experiments in marketing. Based in Singapore, he’s a Google Developer Expert for Android, active open-source contributor, public speaker, and podcast host—bringing developer experience and community building into his engineering practice. His background includes foundational mobile platform work at Alibaba and logistics/mobile foundation work at honestbee, giving him deep production-scale Android expertise. Known for mentoring juniors and shaping developer tooling, he pairs hands-on coding with thoughtful platform design and public outreach.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Digital Media Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Digital Media Technology at Central China Normal University
English, Chinese, hokkien
Stackoverflow
1,303reputation
201kreached
20answers
7questions
gradle
top-5%
android-studio
top-5%
Github Skills (111)
android-gradle-plugin10
android-build10
gradle-plugin10
launcher10
launcher-icon10
calculator10
extend10
git-commit10
androidmanifest10
kotlin-multiplatform10
dependency-injection10
artifact10
groovy10
dsl10
audio-processing10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
2BAB/bundle-tool-gradle-plugin
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
A Gradle Plugin for Android BundleTool.
Contributions:9 releases, 36 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
androidbundletoolgradle-plugin
2BAB/2bab-home
May 2023 - Jul 2026
Personal site with intro / posts / public speakings and other works.
Contributions:136 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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