Chris Banes Portfolio
15-year Android UI specialist (ex-Google Developer Relations, ex-Twitter Staff Engineer) whose open-source portfolio — Accompanist, Tivi, PhotoView — doubles as reference architecture for the Android ecosystem.
What makes it work
A breakdown of the choices that make this portfolio stand out.
Reference architecture as the flagship project
Tivi is widely referenced in the Android community as an example of modern Android architecture — other developers study its code to structure their own apps.
A portfolio of narrow, sharply-scoped libraries
Accompanist, Haze and Insetter each solve one well-understood UI problem rather than trying to be a do-everything toolkit.
Technical leadership stated with a specific number
Leading a Compose migration across 150 engineers at Twitter is a concrete organizational scale metric, answering whether he can move a large team, not just write good code.
What Mobile Developers can take from this
Specific, actionable tips to apply to your own portfolio — no generic advice.
If one of your open-source projects became a reference architecture others study, say that explicitly.
Publish several small, sharply-scoped libraries rather than one large framework.
State the size of any team or migration you led with a real number.
Document a platform transition as it happens, not only after it's finished.
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