Mark L. Murphy

Android Developer and Engineering Manager

Recent Professional Experiences

For a full experience roster, please see my LinkedIn profile.

Principal Software Engineer: July 2024 - January 2026

Developed dashboard experience for the 2025 Dacora Model 001 ultra-luxury sedan light prototype. Scope included the instrument cluster, Mapbox-based turn-by-turn navigation, streaming media, and an AI-powered voice assistant. Deployed on Android (AOSP builds on Raspberry Pi 5 devices).
Developed companion app for the aforementioned dashboard experience, allowing an Android phone to send over navigation destinations.
Key Technologies: Kotlin Multiplatform, Compose Multiplatform, Kotlin coroutines, Mapbox, Bluetooth LE, ExoPlayer, Retrofit/OkHttp, ZeroMQ, Koin, Kotest, Kover

Principal Software Engineer/Technology Manager: August 2019 - June 2024

Team lead/manager of the 12-person Android app team for the Android-powered MIRROR connected fitness device (later rebranded lululemon Studio). Contributed to app architecture and development, including the Wear OS companion app, “MIRROR Digital” (on-phone workout streaming), and a never-released Android TV client. Phone app UI was developed using the classic Android View system, while the Wear OS and Android TV clients used Jetpack Compose.
In late 2023, took over management of the remainder of the lululemon Studio engineering department, after a third round of layoffs.
Worked directly with peer engineering teams (iOS app, mirror OS, backend, QA) and TPMs, plus interacted with product management/UX design, content teams, etc. Led daily standups and other meetings, coordinated Jira tickets and engineering planning, and generally kept things humming along.
Key Technologies: Jetpack Compose, Kotlin coroutines, Dagger/Hilt, Bluetooth LE, ExoPlayer, Retrofit/OkHttp, Firebase (Analytics, App Distribution, Cloud Messaging, Remote Config), JUnit, Google Play Billing, RxJava, protobuf, WebSockets

Freelance Developer Advocate: June 2008 - December 2021 (+ current)

Author of The Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development and several other books on Android app development. Published digitally on a subscription basis through 2021, now available for free under a Creative Commons license.
Developer on Android app projects for remote clients. Examples include:
- Ride booking app for a microtransit firm, using Kotlin, the Architecture Components, Google Maps, Retrofit, Dagger, and RxJava
- Event invitation app using Kotlin, the Architecture Components, Retrofit, Koin, and RxJava
- Code audit for IoT client app
Professional trainer, having trained over 1,000 engineers on how to write Android applications across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Android developer advocate, with over 23,000 contributed answers on Stack Overflow, dozens of conference presentations, and a decade’s worth of Android blog posts.
As “a hobby with a logo”, CommonsWare remains active, publishing a weekly newsletter on Jetpack Compose and a blog.

Masters of Business Administration, Spring 1992, University of Illinois.
Bachelors of Science in Physics, with concentration in electrical engineering and a minor in mathematics, Spring 1990, Penn State University. Graduated with distinction and honors.
Certificate of Business Management, Spring 1990, Penn State University.

Operating Systems: Android, macOS, Linux, Windows
Programming Languages: Kotlin, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, SQL, Groovy, C/C++
Key Software: Android Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, Gradle, git, Jira, Figma, SQLite, SQLCipher for Android, Confluence, nginx
Key Technologies: Jetpack Compose/Compose Multiplatform, Kotlin Multiplatform, Kotlin coroutines, Bluetooth LE, Dagger/Hilt, Gradle, HTML/CSS, JSON, JUnit, Koin, Mapbox, Ollama, protobuf, REST, RxJava/reactive programming, XML