Android Development Expert Panel

Android SDK Tech Lead

Xavier joined Google in 2007 to work on Android.

He’s now the lead for the SDK and Developer Tools for Android, leading the effort to unify Android apps around a single Gradle-based build system, deeply integrated with Android Studio, an IntelliJ-based IDE for Android.

Performance Team Lead at Gradle

Gradle core engineer for over a year. Contributor to Eclipse Buildship.

Product Manager, Android Studio

James is a product manager on the Android Studio team. He works on the build system and other tools in Android Studio. Prior to joining Google, he was a Lead PM at Microsoft where he spent over 10 years working on various developer-focused products. James graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Computer Engineering, and he also holds a Master of Engineering Management degree from Dartmouth College.

Founder of Gradle

Hans Dockter is the founder of Gradle Inc., a company whose purpose is to empower software development teams to reach their full potential for joy, creativity, and productivity. To address his own personal frustrations as a developer, Hans co-founded the Gradle Build Tool project which was named by TechCrunch as one of the top 20 most popular OSS projects. Gradle Build Tool is now downloaded more than 23 million times a month. He then led the development of Gradle Enterprise which today is the leading enabling solution for the practice of Developer Productivity Engineering.

Previous to Gradle, Inc, Hans successfully led numerous large-scale enterprise builds and emerged as a thought leader in project automation. He is an advocate of Domain Driven Design, having taught classes and delivered presentations on this topic together with Eric Evans. Hans was also a committer for the JBoss project and founded the JBoss-IDE.