Jul 2024-Present
Lucra Sports
Director of Mobile
Built Android app end-to-end in 6 months; architected SDK for third-party distribution
Director of Mobile / Android Engineer
Elliot Mitchell
Built Android apps for 14 years. Spent the last 6 leading teams, growing engineers, and obsessing over the gap between fast and good - and yes, I still write the code.
Shipping mobile products means balancing architecture, product pressure, reliability, and team clarity at the same time. The work here spans leadership roles, product builds, and platform-level SDK work used at real scale.
14 Years building Android
9 Portfolio projects on this page
6 Years leading teams and growing engineers
About
Leadership, architecture, and delivery in the same room.
Elliot Mitchell is a Director of Mobile and Android engineer who has spent the last 14 years shipping products across social, creator, education, safety, gaming, finance, and enterprise spaces. The through line is the same in each role: write the code, raise the bar, and keep the team moving.
"To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action."
Mark Manson
Work
Skills
A mobile engineering stack shaped by shipping, not theory.
Native Android is the center of gravity, but the surrounding work spans SDK design, release systems, CI, cloud services, test infrastructure, and the practical realities of cross-functional delivery.
KotlinJavaSwiftJavaScriptTypeScriptReactReact NativeNode.jsJetpack ComposeXML/View-based UICamera SDKHilt/DaggerSDK Architecture & PublishingModular Build SystemsGoogle Play BillingCI/CD (Bitrise / GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Jenkins)FirebaseAWSCloudflareNew RelicApp CenterJUnitRobolectricBluetooth LE
Experience
Jan 2021-Jul 2024
Microsoft
Sr. Engineering Manager, Android
Led Camera SDK integration across Teams, Xbox, Snapchat, GroupMe and Flip
May 2017-Present
Freelance
Principal Android Engineer
Lens Distortions, Mach Energy - multi-million user scale
Apr 2020-Dec 2020
LiveSafe
Sr. Android Engineer
Shipped to 350k+ devices
Jan 2020-Apr 2020
Outdoorsy
Sr. Android Engineer
Nov 2018-Dec 2019
Nerdery
Sr. Android Engineer
Bluetooth LE glucose monitoring
Jul 2017-Nov 2018
Spreetail
Android Engineer
Offline-first fulfillment tooling
Apr 2016-Jul 2017
Varsity Tutors
Android Engineer II
Live video tutoring
Nov 2012-Apr 2016
Sandhills Publishing
Lead Android Engineer
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