Andrew Concepcion

[PRESENT ORIGIN · WHOLE PERSON]

Engineer.Problem solver.Lifelong explorer.

I’m an AI-native software engineer with more than 10 years shipping Android, iOS, backend, and shared systems across crypto, fintech, streaming, telecom, transport, rewards, safety, and e-commerce.

I’m also a husband, dad, photographer, amateur astronomer, reader, fitness enthusiast, and lifelong explorer. Family and curiosity keep my work grounded.

My engineering practice spans native products, shared systems, architecture, reliability, delivery, and agent-first work; my personal life stays rooted in family, exploration, observation, reflection, and building.

Engineering profile

Surfaces
  • Android
  • iOS
  • Backend APIs
  • Shared native core
Languages
  • Kotlin
  • Swift / Objective-C
  • Java
  • SQL / Postgres / PostGIS
  • Rust / UniFFI
  • JavaScript / Node
Craft
  • Clean / modular architecture
  • Reliability / performance
  • CI/CD / release hardening
  • Jetpack Compose
  • Testing / visual QA
  • Async / reactive data
  • Privacy / security
Delivery
  • Technical leadership
  • Cross-functional delivery
  • Agent-first engineering
  • Agent memory / orchestration

Interests

Place
  • Travel
  • Outdoors
  • Family time
Observation
  • Photography
  • Astronomy
Reflection
  • Reflective practice
  • Philosophy
  • Fitness
Building
  • Small ventures
  • Financial independence
[SOURCE INDEX] Sources and map key

My engineering record is grounded in shipped roles, public projects, and published technical writing. Personal entries document family travel, photography, astronomy, reflection, fitness, and small ventures. The source trail below keeps each statement tied to the public evidence behind it.

Evidence key: A public product listing confirms a product’s public presence, not my implementation claim. A first-person project note records my account; a public repository exposes source; and a merged contribution links accepted upstream work. “Source implementation private” means the underlying code is not publicly inspectable.

Sources for Andrew Concepcion’s engineering skills and personal interests
GroupTopicSourcesHow it shows up
Engineering / SurfacesAndroidResume; work; MySTCLong-running native delivery across banking, telecom, transport, rewards, and safety products.
Engineering / SurfacesiOSResume; OCBC; Rust coreShipped iOS work, feature parity, and native integration.
Engineering / SurfacesBackend APIsPersons Finder; OWTO; WebSafetyAPI delivery across geospatial, transport, and safety systems.
Engineering / SurfacesShared native coreRust core; Kotlin and SwiftShared behavior surfaced through multiplatform and Rust-native boundaries.
Engineering / LanguagesKotlinResume; work; MySTCPrimary production language across Android and shared-code work.
Engineering / LanguagesSwift / Objective-CResume; OCBC; Kotlin and SwiftNative Apple-platform delivery across modern and established code.
Engineering / LanguagesJavaResume; career trajectoryProduction Android experience and modernization of established codebases.
Engineering / LanguagesSQL / Postgres / PostGISPersons Finder; retrospectiveRelational and geospatial queries, migrations, and real-database tests.
Engineering / LanguagesRust / UniFFIRust core; resumeRecent shared-native work and platform-specific packaging.
Engineering / LanguagesJavaScript / NodePortfolio build repositoryNode-based publishing, authoring tools, verification scripts, and browser-side enhancements.
Engineering / CraftClean / modular architectureResume; MySTC; OWTOBoundary-focused architecture across mobile, backend, and shared-native systems.
Engineering / CraftReliability / performanceWork; MySTC; OCBCPerformance, stability, synchronization, and production hardening.
Engineering / CraftCI/CD / release hardeningResume; Persons Finder notes; agent receiptsBuild, verification, release, and traceability practices.
Engineering / CraftJetpack ComposeResume; work; AI fleetProduction UI delivery and architecture in Compose.
Engineering / CraftTesting / visual QAVisual QA; Persons Finder notesUnit, integration, real-database, browser, and visual verification.
Engineering / CraftAsync / reactive dataResume; MySTCCoroutines, Flow, RxJava, RxKotlin, and synchronization patterns.
Engineering / CraftPrivacy / securityWebSafety; resumeSecurity-sensitive features, parental controls, permissions, and privacy-aware delivery.
Engineering / DeliveryTechnical leadershipResume; MySTC; OWTOTechnical direction, team leadership, mentoring, and architecture ownership.
Engineering / DeliveryCross-functional deliveryResume; OCBC; OWTODelivery across product, design, backend, Android, and iOS boundaries.
Engineering / DeliveryAgent-first engineeringAI fleet; agent receipts; visual QAAgent-first planning, implementation, verification, and handoff workflows.
Engineering / DeliveryAgent memory / orchestrationMemPalace; agent receiptsLocal memory, evidence-first retrieval, orchestration, and re-verifiable receipts.
Interests / PlaceTravelFamily trip; photographyFamily travel and exploration documented through writing and images.
Interests / PlaceOutdoorsFamily trip; photographyTrails, alpine landscapes, stargazing, and time outside.
Interests / PlaceFamily timeFamily trip; public personal profileFamily life recurs in the public travel writing and profile.
Interests / ObservationPhotographyPhotography gallery; family tripA slower observational practice and record of travel.
Interests / ObservationAstronomyPhotography gallery; family tripMoon, planets, auroras, dark skies, and telescope observation.
Interests / ReflectionReflective practiceQuiet systems; photographyWriting, observation, and deliberate pauses as feedback loops.
Interests / ReflectionPhilosophyQuiet systems; public personal profileReading and reflection beyond the shipping calendar.
Interests / ReflectionFitnessPublic personal profileFitness as a recurring personal practice that keeps me grounded.
Interests / BuildingSmall venturesPublic personal profileExplicitly described hospitality and laundry experiments.
Interests / BuildingFinancial independencePublic personal profileAn explicitly stated long-term direction connected to small ventures.

[CALIBRATION · NOT PROFICIENCY]

Assessment Signals

[Emergenetics + Harrison Snapshot]

My published Emergenetics and Harrison results point to an analytical and conceptual thinking mix, paired with a collaborative, flexible working style. I treat them as reflection prompts alongside lived delivery experience.

[emergenetics_thinking_mix]
[source: personal_app] [deep_dive]

Thinking blend from my published profile, with behavior percentiles used as day-to-day collaboration signals.

Thinking mix totals 100 percent.
  • Analytical33%
  • Conceptual32%
  • Structural20%
  • Social15%
Behavior Percentile
Expressiveness49%
Behavior Percentile
Assertiveness51%
Behavior Percentile
Flexibility60%
[harrison_highlights_2025]
[source: harrison_assessment] [deep_dive]

Selected Harrison indicators that best match my operating style in delivery, architecture, and team collaboration.

  • Open / Reflective 9.8
  • Flexible 9.7
  • Analytical 9.3
  • Helpful 8.3
  • Optimistic 8.0
Watchpoint

Assertive scored 4.1, which aligns with a preference for collaborative outcomes over hard self-prioritization.

[PAST LIGHT CONE · 2014 → PRESENT]

Career Trajectory

A resume-based timeline of platform ownership, architecture leadership, and shipped product impact.

JUN 2024 — PRESENT

AI-Native Software Engineer — Bitcoin.com

Bitcoin.com Wallet — Self-custody crypto wallet
  • Led the foundation and first end-to-end Android implementation of a multichain rewards platform, then built reward-backed crypto market predictions and moved their service layer into shared Rust through UniFFI.
  • Co-built Bitcoin replace-by-fee with fee-aware UTXO validation, speed-up/cancel flows, reusable transaction preparation and signing, opt-out controls, and dust protection; led an in-app single-chain-to-multichain wallet migration.
  • Modernized staking and liquidity-reward pool reads from legacy RPC to typed REST, shipped provider-aware swap routing and recurring-buy reminders, and hardened startup, native builds, CI, and Android releases.
JUN 2023 — JUN 2024

Senior Mobile Developer — Candyspace

ITVX — Streaming platform
  • Built a recommendations panel that appears during playback, coordinating its animations with player-control and button movement across phone and tablet layouts.
  • Independently delivered timeline scrubbing with a visual preview so viewers could see where playback would land before seeking.
  • Fixed long-standing player issues and improved reliability with stronger error tracking, security fixes, and a Simple XML-to-Jackson migration.
JUN 2021 — JUN 2023

Senior Android Developer — Red Airship

OCBC — Mobile banking OpenPay — Fintech
  • Built and launched OCBC Business mobile banking flows spanning onboarding, account dashboards, transfers, and digital account opening.
  • Integrated third-party SDKs, refactored selected modules to reduce coupling, and improved unit-test coverage for critical fintech flows.
  • Improved OpenPay checkout reliability, UI responsiveness, partner-integrated payment flows, and release hardening.
MAY 2020 — JUN 2021

Lead Developer — InnovationTeam

MySTC — Telecom project
  • Led an offshore team of five senior Android engineers on MySTC, serving 10M+ installs across multilingual customer journeys.
  • Drove Clean Architecture and MVVM adoption with RxJava and RxKotlin, improving modular boundaries and release confidence.
  • Delivered performance, stability, and data synchronization improvements across account, ordering, and support flows.
JUN 2018 — MAY 2020

Team Lead — iPARA Technologies and Solutions

OWTO — Ride-hailing service
  • Led cross-functional delivery across Android, iOS, and backend for a ride-hailing platform that grew to 500K+ downloads.
  • Architected the mobile app with Uber RIB-inspired patterns to support modular growth and clearer ownership boundaries.
  • Improved booking reliability, payment-path handling, and backend API coordination for real-time transport flows.
JUN 2016 — JUN 2018

Senior Android Developer — YOYO Holdings Pte. Ltd.

PopSlide — Rewards platform
  • Led Android development for a rewards app with 1M+ downloads across Southeast Asia.
  • Migrated large Java surfaces to Kotlin, reduced regressions in fragile areas, and shipped safer feature rollouts through A/B testing and guardrails.
  • Improved API and caching behavior while keeping monetization-critical lockscreen and notification surfaces stable.
MAY 2014 — JUN 2016

Full-Stack Web and Mobile Developer — Internet Strategy Branding and Execution (ISBX)

WebSafety — Parental controls
  • Delivered end-to-end features for WebSafety across Android, iOS, web, and backend systems.
  • Worked through undocumented Android APIs, GPS and sync reliability, and security-sensitive feature requirements.
  • Helped ship a robust parental-controls platform with stronger operational and compliance posture.

[OBSERVATION FIELD · PUBLISHED MANIFEST]

The Lab Journal

[Personal + Hobby Entries From Published Manifest]

[SYSTEMS FIELD · PRESENT PRACTICE]

Systems Field

Four connected constellations across current working surfaces, architecture, data flow, and adjacent delivery.

_android
  • Kotlin
  • Java
  • Jetpack Compose
  • Android SDK
  • XML layouts
_architecture
  • Clean Architecture
  • MVVM
  • Modularization
  • SDK integration
  • Unit testing
_async_data
  • Coroutines
  • Flow
  • RxJava / RxKotlin
  • Retrofit
  • REST APIs
_adjacent_delivery
  • Compose Multiplatform
  • Kotlin Multiplatform
  • SwiftUI / Swift
  • Firebase / SQLite
  • CI/CD + release hardening