Joshua Soberg

Hi! I’m Josh, an experienced software engineer passionate about building impactful Android applications. I’ve worked on everything from P2P communication tools to complex, real-time live-streaming applications that serve millions of users. I’m excited to continue learning and share some of the lessons that I’ve picked up on my journey.

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Welcome to my blog! As you may have gathered from my bio, my name is Josh and I’ve been working as a full-time Android software engineer for over a decade. I’ve started this blog to share and explore some of the topics that I find interesting, along with lessons that I’ve picked up throughout my career.

Invoking the header image for this post should give you a sense of how I feel about software development (and if I’m being honest, life in general). Even after many years in the field, my knowledge can feel like a Grand Canyon of missing information and experience. I’d like to use this blog as another method of exploring ways of bridging the gap to making me a more knowledgable and well-rounded software developer/person.

I’ll be focusing mainly on Android and Kotlin development, since this is my specialty - but I’ll likely detour into other topics from time to time. I work across all levels of the Android stack, from data backends to complex UI (Jetpack Compose saved us all :pray:). On top of that, I’m a sucker for deep-diving into different methods of maintaining and optimizing Gradle build systems in large multi-module projects (check out my pet project here that I use as a test-bed for build system experiments) and other more obscure Android related topics.

Thanks again for stopping in!