Erald Haka

Senior Android Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, architecting, and shipping Android applications across healthcare, enterprise, and consumer products. Extensive experience with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Clean Architecture, and MVVM, with a track record of leading technical initiatives and owning products from concept through Google Play release. Delivered applications supporting 20k+ active patients, led 10+ production releases, and built reusable platform capabilities.

Additional expertise includes connected devices, secure BLE communication, and mobile platform integrations.

Senior Android Engineer - Kohler Health

(2024-11 - 2026-07)

• Increased device-activation completion by 60% by redesigning and implementing a modular Android onboarding flow that simplified the user setup experience.
• Led the Android application from early-stage development through its production launch on Google Play, owning feature delivery, launch readiness, and release execution.
• Secured data exchange between the Android application and connected health devices by implementing encrypted BLE communication and end-to-end protection for sensitive device data.
• Standardized notification delivery across the application by replacing feature-specific implementations with a unified framework for in-app messaging, FCM push, channel categorization, and deep-link routing.
• Led 10+ Android production releases to Google Play by coordinating release readiness, build validation, rollout execution, and post-release monitoring.
• Simplified device-session initiation by implementing an NFC tap-to-start workflow that replaced manual session-start steps.
• Enabled entitlement-based product access by building subscription management and access-control logic that gated features and content according to subscription status.
• Owned end-to-end delivery of Timeline, Engagement Messaging, and in-app animation features.

Lead Android Engineer - Clinii (formerly LiveCare)

(2019-03 - 2024-11)

• Standardized medical-device connectivity across the platform by building a reusable Bluetooth SDK that integrated 100+ medical peripherals.
• Scaled the Android application to support 20k+ active patients across Google Play installations and company-managed patient devices.
• Owned Android architecture, engineering delivery, and release management across Clinii's mobile product line as the lead Android engineer.
• Modernized the Android codebase by migrating it to Kotlin and Clean MVVM, introducing dependency injection and unit and instrumented testing to improve maintainability and release confidence.
• Expanded remote-care capabilities with in-app messaging and video/audio calling for patient-provider communication.
• Enabled centralized provisioning and policy management of company-issued patient devices by integrating the Android Management API.
• Translated clinical and operational requirements into Android architecture and delivery plans through collaboration with product, design, backend, and healthcare stakeholders.

Lead Android Engineer - Landmark sh.p.k. - Tirana, Albania

(2018 - 2019)

• Led Android architecture and development for consumer mobile applications, establishing reusable design patterns that improved application performance and maintainability.
• Owned feature delivery from technical design through production release while collaborating with product, design, and backend teams.

Android Developer - Manoolia sh.p.k. - Tirana, Albania

(2017 - 2018)

• Developed consumer-facing Android applications using Java and Kotlin, implementing reusable components and responsive user interfaces.
• Improved application performance and stability through code optimization, debugging, and continuous refactoring.

Android Developer - Almotech sh.p.k. - Tirana, Albania

(2015 - 2017)

• Built and maintained features for consumer Android applications, contributing to application architecture and end-to-end feature implementation.
• Improved application performance by identifying bottlenecks, optimizing code paths, and applying Android development best practices.

MBA - Informatics - University of Tirana, Faculty of Natural Sciences (2014 - 2016)

BBA - Informatics - University of Tirana, Faculty of Natural Sciences (2011 - 2014)