Hi there 👋
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🧑💻 I'm a Lead/Senior Android Engineer and offer the following consultancy services:
- Android App design, build, and test services
- Android SDK-specific consultancy, i.e how to design, build and distribute open or closed-source SDKs in the Android ecosystem
- App security and hardening techniques
- Mobile dev ops: Gradle performance profiling and optimisation, test automation, CI, and CD to Google Play or Maven central
- Code Review: improving team processes, architectural and/or security review
- Android technical interviews: Do you require Android technical resources with an unbiased technical review of potential candidates?
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🔭 My a recent poisition was working with Help Scout building an Android app and SDK
- Day to day using MVI/Clean architecture utilising Kotlin and Coroutines Flow, Room, Bitrise
- Most proud of the real-time Chat SDK which I built from the ground up using Push notifications, WebSockets with UI using MotionLayout
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🌍 I blog at scottyab.com about Android, software engineering and various other interests.
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🗣 I enjoy speaking at conferences and have presented internationally about Android and app security. See my speaker timeline for more details
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🎉 Google officially recognised my Android community contributions in 2016 by inviting me to the Google Developer Experts (GDE) program where I was an active member until 2022.
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👀 Looking for: speakers to give tech talks at the SW Mobile meetup.com group that I founded in 2012 and co-run. Submit talk here
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📚 Co-Author of the Android Security Cookbook 2013, ISBN:978-1-78216-716-7
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💬 Ask me about Android development, Mobile security, Trail running or Coffee!
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😄 Pronouns: Him/He
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⚡ Fun facts:
- 🌯🌮 Favourite food is anything Mexican, but especially burritos
- 🍻☕️ Enjoy craft beer and freshly ground gourmet coffee
- 🏃♂️🏔 Love long-distance trail running especially in the mountains