Kristina's Story
A Maps and Android GDE shares her professional journey and how she stays involved with the developer community
Maps GDE Kristina Simakova works as an independent consultant and spends 60% of her time as an Android manager for a consulting firm in Norway. In that role, she helps Android consultants on their projects.
“It has been a new experience,” Kristina says. “I’m suddenly responsible for 14 people and have switched from coding to being a manager. It has been very helpful in our current COVID situation, because if you’re a developer sitting at home coding, that could be a bit lonely and monotonous, but when you have to be more interactive with people, even online, it’s different.” Read more.
“It’s so easy, and with Google Cloud, you can add a simple ID to your app without doing anything extra,” she says. “You can use brand colors and even remove features your app doesn’t need, so the map isn’t cluttered with other information.”
-- Kristina Simakova
GDE, Android, Google Maps Platform, & Google Play
GDE, Android, Google Maps Platform, & Google Play
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