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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/scottyab/scottyab
• Owner: scottyab
• Created: 2022-01-24T11:58:21.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-11-10T11:54:41.000Z (7 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-10T12:35:08.913Z (7 days ago)
• Size: 686 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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### Hi there 👋

- 🧑‍💻 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?

- 🔭 My a recent poisition was working with [Help Scout](https://github.com/helpscout) 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

- 🌍 I blog at [scottyab.com](https://scottyab.com) about Android, software engineering and various other interests. 

- 🗣 I enjoy speaking at conferences and have presented internationally about Android and app security. See my [speaker timeline](./speaker_timeline.md) for more details

- 🎉 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.

- 👀 Looking for: speakers to give tech talks at the [SW Mobile](https://www.meetup.com/swmobile/) meetup.com group that I founded in 2012 and co-run. Submit talk [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_NeuxT_Tmo01pwu0CKbffLJUeyczkmEwXMs1rBFxlncfgKQ/viewform)

- 📚 Co-Author of the [Android Security Cookbook](https://www.packtpub.com/product/android-security-cookbook/9781782167167) 2013, ISBN:978-1-78216-716-7

- 💬 Ask me about Android development, Mobile security,  Trail running or Coffee!  

- 📫 How to reach me: via [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottbown/) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/scottyab) 

- 😄 Pronouns: Him/He

- ⚡ 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