Mitchell Syer
Software Engineer at AdCentral
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarMitchell Syer is a software engineer based in Ontario, Canada, with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack applications and a strong affinity for Kotlin. He is an active open-source contributor who focuses on backend systems and asynchronous design, notable for improving coroutine usage and extension APIs in desktop adaptations of Android apps. Mitchell played a key role on the Suwayomi server project, creating and patching an Android JAR to enable Android compatibility in a desktop rewrite of the popular Tachiyomi client. He blends practical engineering with community-driven development, often tackling interoperability challenges between mobile and desktop platforms. Colleagues appreciate his pragmatic problem-solving and steady delivery on complex integration tasks.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
kotlin10
coroutines10
android10
apidoc9
api9
javalin8
javas8
java8
mangum7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Suwayomi/Suwayomi-Server
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
A rewrite of Tachiyomi for the Desktop
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 575 reviews, 70 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Mitchell primarily contributed to the backend of the `suwayomi/suwayomi-server` project. Their work focused on building and modifying features related to Android compatibility, specifically by creating and patching an Android JAR for use in the desktop application. They also addressed issues in the extension API and implemented coroutines, improving the application's asynchronous capabilities.
electronmangareaderjavalinkotlinmanga-downloader
Syer10/accompanist
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
A collection of extension libraries for Compose Multiplatform
Contributions:10 releases, 46 commits, 52 pushes in 1 year 6 months
compose-multiplatform
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