Hicham Boushaba
Morocco
Summary
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RockstarHicham Boushaba is an Android engineer with nine years of experience building and leading mobile projects, currently at Automattic where he contributes to the open-source Simplenote Android app. He has held senior Android roles at IBM, Heetch and Atos, bringing both hands-on implementation and technical leadership across consumer and enterprise apps. His background in telecom core networks (Huawei, INWI) gives him a strong systems perspective that informs reliable, network-aware mobile designs. Notable open-source contributions include improving Simplenote’s checklist, search tokenization and tablet UI behaviors, reflecting attention to UX detail and cross-device consistency. Based in Morocco, he blends deep Android UI/UX refinements with pragmatic engineering from large-scale telecom and software environments. Colleagues value him for shipping clean, maintainable features that bridge platform quirks and real-world usage.
9 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
mobile-development10
android10
java10
kotlin9
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
internet-connection6
android-navigation6
xamarin-forms6
xamarin6
android-fragments6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/simplenote-android
Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
Simplenote for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:43 reviews, 72 commits, 25 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Hicham primarily contributed to the Android Simplenote application by modifying the SimplenoteEditText class to enhance the checklist functionality. They also refactored the search functionality, addressing hyphenated terms and exclusion logic in the SearchTokenizer class. Further contributions included implementing tablet-specific UI behaviors, such as selecting the next or previous note after a trash action and refining the application's theme and user interface.
android
hichamboushaba/WCStoreApp
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Mobile shopping experience for WooCoomerce stores (not ready for production use)
Contributions:2 releases, 422 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 3 months
mobilecomposeandroidhilt
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