Summary
Carl Rice is a seasoned Android engineer and software leader based in Portland, Oregon, with about a decade of experience shipping mobile apps across consumer, health, and startup contexts. As Founding Technical Staff at Phota Labs, he combines hands-on coding with early-stage product leadership to build scalable mobile solutions. At Lime, he architected a custom UI design system in Kotlin and Compose, focusing on ease of use, correctness, and evolvability of design systems. Earlier roles include porting iOS gaming experiences to Android in 3 months at Cluth.win, and driving crash-reduction efforts at IRL to sub-0.5% crash rates, delivering a 5x quality improvement; at Evidation he created a native add-on SDK unifying Samsung and Google Health. A former Staff Android Engineer at Pinterest, he contributed to performance, UI libraries, and large-scale redesigns in the run-up to IPO. He studied Digital Communication and Multimedia at the University of the Arts, blending technical depth with user-centric design.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia at University of the Arts