Miguel Barreto
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMiguel Barreto is a New York–based Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience across Google, Twitter, Apple, and now Duolingo, specializing in backend engineering, distributed systems, and large ETL/data processing pipelines. He has a strong track record building production-grade infrastructure—ranging from Maps data ingestion to Cloud Binary Authorization—and has repeatedly moved between backend and mobile platform work, contributing to Google Slides/Docs/Sheets and Material Design for Android. His cross-domain experience gives him a pragmatic view of systems that must serve both high-throughput backend workloads and polished client experiences. Notably, he contributed concrete UI components and behaviors to the widely used material-components-android project, blending deep backend rigor with hands-on mobile engineering. Educated in Systems and Computer Engineering at Universidad de los Andes, he brings long-term institutional knowledge of large tech stacks and a bias toward reliable, test-covered delivery.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad de los Andes
Japanese, Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, English
Github Skills (8)
android-test10
material-design10
javas10
android-testing10
android10
java10
ui-components10
material-components9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
material-components/material-components-android
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
[MAINTENANCE MODE] Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:31 commits, 12 PRs, 150 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily focused on developing and testing Android UI components within the `material-components-android` repository. They implemented new UI elements, specifically a `BackLayerLayout` and associated behaviors, including the `BackLayerSiblingBehavior`. Their work involved adding animations and functionality to hide and expose the `BackLayer`, managing the content layer's behavior and size changes, and writing comprehensive tests to ensure correct component layout and behavior.
androidmaintenance-modematerial-designui-componentsmaterial-components
material-foundation/material-remixer-android
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Remixer for Android. Live adjustment of app variables.
Contributions:6 releases, 336 commits, 139 PRs in 1 year
androidmaterialmaterial-designremixer
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