Nick Achtien

Oakland, CA · GitHub · LinkedIn · US 10,820,358

I'm an Android engineer in Oakland, California. Over ten years I've shipped production mobile systems — a patented BLE communication layer for connected hardware, server-driven Compose UI in World App (10M+ downloads), and Kotlin Multiplatform cores shared across iOS, Android, and web. Lately I build with AI in the loop: LLM pipelines in the product, agentic tooling in the workflow. I'm currently looking for a senior or staff Android role nachtien@gmail.com.

Selected work

Experience

  • Tools For Humanity2025

    server-driven UI system in Jetpack Compose for World App (10M+ downloads); product teams ship screens without an app release.

  • Transcarent / 98point62022–2024

    Kotlin Multiplatform core shared across iOS and Android; shared business logic written once instead of twice.

  • Structionsite2020–2022

    full Jetpack Compose migration and codebase modularization; OpenGL panoramic viewer and a shared GraphQL KMP library.

  • JUUL Labs2017–2019

    Android app and patented BLE communication layer for a connected consumer device, built 0→1.

  • PAX Labs2016–2017

    ground-up BLE application and the secure communication stack behind it, including encrypted local storage.

  • Independent2024–present

    cross-platform AI product built end to end: Compose Multiplatform client, Node/Postgres backend across three clouds, LLM dialogue pipeline over SMS.

Skills

  • UI

    Jetpack Compose, Compose Multiplatform, Material Design

  • Architecture

    Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP), MVVM, MVI, Koin, Server-driven UI, Modularization

  • Networking & Data

    Retrofit, Ktor, Apollo GraphQL, SQLDelight, Kotlinx Serialization

  • Leadership

    Technical leadership, Mentoring, Architecture planning, Interviewing & hiring

  • AI

    LLM pipeline design & integration, AI-driven product features, Agentic dev tooling (Claude Code, Codex)

Patents

  • US 10,820,358Bluetooth Low Energy connection management

    A coroutine-based BLE communication layer replacing Android's callback framework — serialized operations, no thread blocking, automatic state-machine handling.

  • GrantedSession control for a vaporizer device

    Device session management for connected consumer hardware.

  • GrantedUser interface and user experience for a vaporizer device

    Interaction design for a BLE-connected consumer device.

About

I'm a Staff Android engineer in Oakland. Over ten years I've shipped production apps for connected hardware, healthcare, construction, and fintech — including a patented BLE communication layer built on Kotlin coroutines and a server-driven UI system in Jetpack Compose. Since 2020 I've led Kotlin Multiplatform architecture sharing real code across iOS, Android, and web, and for the past two years I've built an AI product end to end, working daily with LLM pipelines and agentic tools like Claude Code. I'm looking for a staff-level role where deep Android craft and cross-platform architecture move a product that matters.