Work Experience

Senior Android Engineer - Zooplus (Netlight Consultant)

Q3 2023 - Q1 2024

Joined one of three Scrum teams responsible for developing the Android apps of Zooplus, a leading European online retailer of pet food and supplies with a yearly revenue exceeding €2.1 billion.

• Played a key role in ensuring timely delivery of a significant feature enabling customers to set up recurring orders.
• Led and contributed to several initiatives for vital architectural improvements, including:
  • Increasing focus on unit testing
  • Transitioning to ViewBinding from Kotlin synthetics
  • Conducting code-analysis with Sonarqube
  • Implementing standardized code formatting
  • Modularizing the app
  • Migrating from Java to Kotlin
• Improved the weekly Android sync meetings by creating a structured template for notes and moderating discussions.
• Introduced Architectural Decision Records to document and guide development decisions.
• Joined an initiative by the area architect to improve our testing strategy for the Android app, iOS app and mobile apps backend.
• Refined my team’s Scrum process and organized sprint retros.

Flutter Engineer - Jimdo (Netlight Consultant)

Q3 2022 - Q2 2023

Created a banking app for business accounts with a small team at Jimdo, in partnership with Solaris SE.

• Used Solaris’ documentation and close collaboration with Solaris representatives to successfully implement various features, such as account closure, card functionality, and onboarding screens.
• Improved maintainability and reduced bugs by greatly simplifying the architecture of the onboarding.
• Delved deep into Solaris and Android documentation to resolve a complex bug causing Android biometrics to fail on older Android APIs.
• Took on the responsibility of onboarding a new team member, quickly enabling them to become productive and well-integrated into the team.

Android Engineer - TIER Mobility (Netlight Consultant)

Q3 2021 - Q3 20223

Developed the Android app as a part of several teams (Shop, Loyalty, Rider’s Delight, Pricing) at TIER Mobility, a prominent player in European micro-mobility.

• Reached feature parity with the iOS app in each team that I joined.
• Delivered a major feature — creating multiple rides within the same app — from ideation to MVP on time.
• Modernised the codebase by spearheading the introduction of Android Compose.

Android Engineer - Jochen Schweizer My Days (Netlight Consultant)

Q4 2019 - Q3 2021

At Jochen Schweizer Mydays Group, a leader in Germany’s experience product market selling about 1 million vouchers annually, I played a crucial role in a small Android team revamping their legacy app into a state-of-the-art Kotlin-based application using MVVM architecture.

• Implemented cutting-edge technologies and tools including:
  • Kotlin for the entire app
  • Android Compose for the entire UI
  • MVVM as the architectural pattern
  • Room for local database management
  • Dagger Hilt for dependency injection
  • Coroutines for efficient threading
  • LiveData and Flow for reactive state management
  • Android navigation component for seamless app navigation
• Maintained a crash-free rate >99% through robust architecture and rigorous testing.

Java Engineer - Lumera (formerly Itello) (Meepo Consultant)

Q2 2019 - Q4 2019

Contributed as a Java Engineer in a Scrum team at Lumera, a leading insurance management systems provider in the Nordics.

• Gained valuable experience in a large organization, enhancing my overall software development and Java programming skills.

Flutter Engineer - The Life You Can Save (Meepo Consultant Inhouse)

Q3 2018 - Q2 2019

Led the development of an app for The Life You Can Save, a non-profit promoting effective charities.

• Brought the app from ideation to MVP release.
• Took initial architectural decisions.
• Set up CI/CD pipelines.
• Created cloud functions in Firebase.
• Joined stakeholder meetings.
• Planned and performed user testing.