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As of April 2021, I've been an Android Engineer with over three years of experience working remotely, trying to live and flex my true digital nomad life. ๐จ๐ปโ๐ป๐๐
โจ What I've Worked On:
๐ป Open Source Contributions & Publications:
- Extended Player View Library (Kotlin): Published an easy to customize player view library for Android. See the code on GitHub.
- Jetpack Compose Samples (Kotlin, Compose): Contributor to the leading open-source project to help people learn about Compose, starred by more than 3k developers. Contributions include adding a todo feature to one of the sample apps.
- Cascade Library (Kotlin): Contributor to an open-source library to replace Androidโs popup menu, starred by 1.4k developers. Contributions include adding support for grouped menus and fixing an invisible item bug.
๐ฑ Apps
- Text Recognition App (Kotlin, ML Kit, Firebase): A text recognition app to help detect text from images and stores them back as PDF.
Textify - Apps on Google Play
Automate the tedious work of manually typing a printed document, searching your chat screenshots for a particular message, or extracting your favorite quote from the book you just read. Textify helps recognize text from photos and stores them back as PDF, in just a couple of taps!
๐ Books
- Published a book about the one day experience of spending my day with Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc, who single-handedly invented both the Apple I and Apple II computers in the 1970s.
โA Day with The Woz
โโThe Wozโ built the first [personal computer]โby hand, himself.โโUSA Today<br /><br />A real life one-day experience, read how it felt for an Apple fanboy when he met Stephen Gary โSteveโ Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc, who single-handedly invented both the Apple I and Apple II computers in the โฆ

Interested to know more? Let's grab a coffee and talk tech, music, TV shows, or latest adventures.
๐ฎ Contact
- Twitter: @waseefakhtar
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/waseef
- GitHub: github.com/waseefakhtar
โ๏ธ waseefakhtar@gmail.com