Hi there 👋
I’m Aida Issayeva—a Staff-level Android engineer, Google Developer Expert, and speaker with 12+ years of software engineering experience.
I specialize in the systems between writing code and shipping it: build performance, CI reliability, developer experience, quality controls, and release workflows. As AI agents help teams generate more code faster, my focus is making sure the delivery pipeline can keep up.
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What I do
I help Android organizations find and remove the bottlenecks slowing their engineers down.
That may mean long build times, unreliable CI, invisible retries, overloaded quality gates, unclear module ownership, or release processes that cannot absorb growing change volume.
My work combines engineering data, developer interviews, and hands-on technical experience to distinguish the constraint that matters from the dozens of optimizations that merely sound useful.
You can learn more about my Android Delivery Performance Audit .
My engineering journey
My Android career began in New York City in 2015, when I saved enough to attend a small hybrid bootcamp. After roughly two and a half months of coding 12–14 hours a day, seven days a week, I left the program early for a software engineering internship at Videri.
At Videri, I worked on long-running digital-display applications—including installations in Times Square. From there, I joined CLS and moved to the Washington, D.C. area to build a tablet dashboard that received vessel sensor data through a global satellite network.
Next came LiquidSky, where I helped build an Android app that let people access desktop games through the cloud. I later joined Clarity Money, a personal-finance startup acquired by Goldman Sachs, and continued building its mobile-banking product, Marcus.
I subsequently worked on Pickup at DoorDash, onboarding infrastructure and server-driven UI at Twitter, and Android developer productivity at Toast.
At Toast, from 2023 through April 2026, my work included build and release systems, CI reliability, merge workflows, code-coverage enforcement, and the broader developer experience around a large Android codebase.
Writing and speaking
I share practical lessons from building software and working across engineering organizations. Some articles go deep into Android development; others cover technical leadership, developer experience, and the less visible skills required to create change inside a company.
Most of my writing lives on this blog. I also give talks and occasionally post witty, sarcastic observations about life in tech on TikTok .
Portfolio
Courses
I collaborated with Udacity
and curated Advanced Android Apps with Kotlin, Part 1 for the Android Kotlin Developer Nanodegree
.
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Apps and products
1. Toast, 2023 - April 2026
A restaurant point-of-sale platform where I focused on Android build systems, release infrastructure, CI reliability, and developer productivity.
2. Twitter, 2022 - 2023
I worked primarily on the onboarding component framework, including server-driven UI infrastructure.
3. DoorDash, 2021 - 2022
I worked on the Pickup experience within the DoorDash Android app.
4. Marcus, 2019 - 2021
A mobile-banking app for Goldman Sachs Bank.
5. Clarity Money, 2017 - 2021
A personal-finance management app that was acquired by Goldman Sachs and later transitioned into Marcus.
6. LiquidSky, 2017
A mobile app for accessing PC games through a cloud-gaming service.
7. Thorium, 2016
A vessel-monitoring application connected through the Iridium global satellite network.
My work has taken me from satellite communications and cloud gaming to fintech, social platforms, delivery, restaurant technology, and large-scale Android infrastructure.
In the media
A few places where I’ve been invited to share my experience:
Work with me
If your Android team is producing more code than its delivery system can efficiently validate and ship, start with the Android Delivery Performance Audit .
For other collaborations, please complete this form , and I’ll get back to you within two or three days.
Request a topic
If there’s a topic you’d like me to cover, please file an issue on GitHub .