Ricky Hu


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About me

I am a software developer and professional speedcuber from Taiwan. I utilize my mobile skills in Android, Kotlin Multiplatform, and Flutter, to build applications for the cubing community. I also learn software development skills in my free time, such as full-stack development, software design, self-hosting, etc.


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Work experience

Android Developer
1111 Job Bank - Taipei, Taiwan
2025 Dec - Present

  • Modernized legacy UI components and stabilized insets handling by diagnosing lifecycle constraints and replacing deprecated inset consumption patterns, ensuring highly consistent navigation bar and IME behaviors without unintended side effects.

  • Resolved app-wide Android 15+ edge-to-edge rendering issues by standardizing Fragment inheritance hierarchies and refactoring global WindowInsets dispatch mechanisms, successfully eliminating pervasive double-padding bugs across complex authentication flows.

    • Quality Assurance Intern
    Appier - Taipei, Taiwan
    2024 Jul - 2025 Jan

  • Ensured cross-platform reliability for the AIQUA mobile SDK, serving native Android, iOS, Flutter, and React Native environments, by engineering robust, automated end-to-end testing pipelines utilizing Pytest and Appium.

  • Designed and implemented a data quality testing system within 2 months for AIQUA projects, ensuring key data quality metrics such as accuracy, timeliness, and validity are consistently met.
  • Delivered a 20-minute presentation on the critical importance of data quality, featuring practical code examples using the Great Expectations data validation framework.

    • Android Developer Intern
    LINE Taiwan Limited - Taipei, Taiwan
    2023 Mar - 2024 Jun

  • Developed a video streaming Flutter plugin that integrates native OS functionality, abstracting native platform complexity and improdeveloper velocity by 80%.

  • Led a seamless upgrade of Jetpack Compose and Android SDK, documenting the process in a detailed wiki for team use.

  • Conducted an investigation of the Jetpack Glance library for building Android App Widgets, leading to the successful implementation of a Glance Widget within 2 months.

    • Flutter Developer Intern
    LINE Taiwan Limited - Taipei, Taiwan
    2022 Jul - 2023 Mar

  • Designed and implemented critical features for LINE Shopping App, improving the user experience for over 1 million users through close collaboration with senior engineers and cross-functional teams.

  • Delivered a talk about Flutter and Clean Architecture at LINE Taiwan TECHPULSE 2023, captivating an audience of 300+ professionals.

    • Education

    Computer Science and Information Engineering
    National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT)
    2023 Jul - 2025 Aug

    Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT)
    2019 Sep - 2023 Jun

    Skills

    Mobile Development

    Native Android, Kotlin Multiplatform, Flutter, Kotlin

    Backend & Infrastructure

    Spring Boot, Docker, CI/CD, Github Actions

    Software Architecture

    Clean Architecture, Design Patterns, Object-oriented Design, SOLID Principles

    Software Testing

    Python, Pytest, Appium, Compose UI Testing, JUnit

    Other Development Skills

    Vue, Scrum, Git, LLM, Vim

    My Projects

    HUSH Timer:
    Rubik's Cube 1v1 Battle Timer

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    Description:

    Multiplayer Rubik's Cube Timer built with Compose Multiplatform, supports Android and iOS with features such as portrait/landscape display, sessions history, and more features.

    Role:

    Served as Product Owner and participated in mobile app development, system design, achieving 300+ monthly active users, 82.4% install retention, and 100% crash-free rate.

    HUSH Keyboard:
    Rubik's Cube notation keyboard for Android.

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    Description:

    Typing Rubik's Cube notations on a mobile keyboard kind of a frustration, switching between notations, numbers, and symbols makes it extremely annoying. HUSH Keyboard provides a specialized Rubik's Cube keyboard that is functional, minimal, and customizable.

    Role:

    Developed a custom Android keyboard with Jetpack Compose, enhancing the ease of typing Rubik's Cube notations, and achieved 100+ downloads on Google Play within 2 months.

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    AstroWind template in depth

    AstroWind template in depth

    While easy to get started, Astrowind is quite complex internally. This page provides documentation on some of the more intricate parts.