# Andreas Rossbacher

> Staff Software Engineer Android Infrastructure at Airbnb

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/andreasrossbacher

Passionate mobile engineer with over 18 years of experience in mobile app development and a deep understanding of the Android platform and ecosystem.
Built Yahoo! Mail for Android from the ground up and helped introduce Android development at Yahoo!.
Contributed to the Android infrastructure team at Airbnb, supporting scalable and high-quality mobile development across the organization.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco, CA

### Senior Principal mobile apps engineer @ Yahoo
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, CA
Technical lead Android Mail.

### Principal mobile apps engineer @ Yahoo
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale, CA
Technical lead Android Mail.

### Senior mobile apps engineer @ Yahoo
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Sunnyvale, CA
Engineer on Hub product team. Running build, UI test and unit test automatization.

### Mobile apps engineer @ Yahoo
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | Sunnyvale, CA
Released Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Fantasy Football for Blackberry Handsets. 
Created the basis for the Android know how at Yahoo. 
Designed and implemented the project and build infrastructure used by all Yahoo Android apps. 
Member of Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger for Android engineering teams.

### Software engineer Yahoo! mobile @ Yahoo
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | Hamburg, Germany
Worked on client development for Yahoo! Go 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0. Extended the ant based build and release system. Responsible for client signing. Implemented the Blueprint mobile widget renderer. Responsible for map component, including GPS, cell ID and Wi-Fi localization system. Optimized client binary sizes and client performance and stability. Integrated Opera Mini browser into Yahoo! Go.

### Core application engineer @ Jimm.org
Jan 2004 – Jan 2007
Jimm is the only J2ME open source ICQ client. Responsible for all releases. Implemented core client capabilities (network layer, search, conversation, conversation history, contact list etc.). Extended the build and release system to allow faster more automated releases.


## Education
### Diploma in Computer science, Psychology
TU Dortmund University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andreas-rossbacher-30829630
- GitHub: https://github.com/rossbacher

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Last updated: 2026-04-12