Valentin Baca

Android Developer

https://www.opentalent.in/valentin-baca

Staff Software Engineer at Mapbox. Formerly on AWS Artifact and AmazonSmile. Opinions are mine, not my employer's.

Seattle, WA

Key Strengths

Demonstrated proficiency in Kotlin through multiple personal projects (klox, gotlin, cruddy-pets).
Experience with compiler design principles (klox project).
Familiarity with concurrent programming concepts (gotlin project inspired by Go Goroutines).
Exposure to various programming paradigms and languages (Kotlin, Java, Clojure, Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Shell, Lisp, Vim Script).

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

The candidate shows a strong inclination towards personal projects and self-directed learning, which can be a positive cultural fit for organizations valuing continuous improvement and autonomy. However, the projects are diverse and do not specifically align with the 'Android Developer' target role, indicating a potential mismatch in immediate focus. The lack of team-based projects or professional experience makes it difficult to assess collaboration or team fit.

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills or operational fit. The candidate's personal projects demonstrate initiative and self-learning.

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Projects

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July 4, 2025 – July 21, 2025

Discord bot that adds archive links

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cruddy-pets

October 16, 2024 – October 16, 2024

Showing how easy it is to create a CRUD REST API using Spring Boot + PostgreSQL

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pack-deckbuilder

October 6, 2024 – December 16, 2024

pack-deckbuilder — repository

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node-starter

October 2, 2024 – October 2, 2024

Node + TypeScript + Jest

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gotlin

May 3, 2023 – May 12, 2023

Kotlin Coroutine examples inspired by Go's Goroutines

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tweet-soln

June 24, 2022 – August 9, 2022

splitting tweets

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klox

April 30, 2022 – May 12, 2022

A lox compiler written in Kotlin, from Crafting Interpreters https://craftinginterpreters.com/

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advent

September 29, 2021 – June 7, 2023

Solving Advent of Code problems. See https://adventofcode.com/

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dotfiles

April 14, 2018 – June 8, 2021

config files, like .vimrc, .zshrc

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valbaca.github.io

November 4, 2017 – Present

valbaca.github.io — repository

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Key Strengths

Demonstrated proficiency in Kotlin through multiple personal projects (klox, gotlin, cruddy-pets).
Experience with compiler design principles (klox project).
Familiarity with concurrent programming concepts (gotlin project inspired by Go Goroutines).
Exposure to various programming paradigms and languages (Kotlin, Java, Clojure, Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Shell, Lisp, Vim Script).

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills or operational fit. The candidate's personal projects demonstrate initiative and self-learning.

Valentin Baca

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit

Top Skills

Skills

Projects

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit