Android Engineer (Freelance)

12/2018 – 12/2022

I joined Trade Trade at an early stage (under 30 people) and had a variety of responsibilities over my time there - mainly being responsible for the Android function as the company grew to 600+ employees, where I grew into the role of Team Lead and Engineering Manager
-- Joined as the sole Android Engineer to maintain the Android application, and continue to add new features. Independently built two major features (Savings Plans and Derivatives). Android application was fully reactive (RxJava)
-- Grew the Android team to 10+ Engineers. Responsible for hiring, managing, and helping to transition to cross functional teams
-- Technical Lead for the Android project. Helping oversee feature development and setting up and ensuring best practices. Example project: Lead the development of the Design System and adoption of Compose
-- Built, grew and mentored this team over the duration of my employment
-- Responsibilities include; Tech Lead, Hiring Manager, Engineering Manager, Individual contributor

Android, Mobile Application Development, Software engineering / -technik

9/2017 – 4/2019

Novoda is an agency that specialises in supporting companies (commonly startups/scale-ups) with mobile engineering expertise along with best working practices and process. My experiences included:
-- Working onsite with various clients, integrating with their teams, pushing features and improving the working processes and practices within the teams to reduce crash rates, increase release speed time and reliability along with improving codebase to follow Clean practices
-- Pioneered a native cross-platform project with a client where we worked in a close-knit team of developers and pair programmed between iOS and Android to create an aligned codebase
-- Collaborated with another agency to design and write our own mobile API endpoints within AWS, leading to more efficient and concise network responses
-- Helped to mentor a client product manager in ways of agile development to allow easier collaboration and communication between software developers and product managers/owners
-- Refactoring and modularising large codebases with the goal to make the code more manageable and accessible for large teams
-- Experience highlights and learnings: Peer programming, testing, mentoring, consulting, iOS development, public speaking, modularisation, cross- platform development

Android, Mobile Application Development, Software engineering / -technik