ProGuard
Role: product lead, developer
Tags: java, bytecode engineering, obfuscation
License: GPLv2
Link: https://github.com/Guardsquare/proguard
ProGuard is a bytecode optimizer / shrinker and obfuscator that is also part of the Android build tools to minimize Android applications as much as possible.
I have been the product lead and lead developer of this project (and its commercial sibling DexGuard) for several years.
Some of the notable personal contributions to the project:
- Support for backporting Java 8 language features and API calls
- Parallelization of optimization step
- Gradle plugin
- Many bugfixes and small improvements
ProGuard is an amazing piece of software, difficult to master but once you get used to it, everything feels natural.