Paulo Pereira - Senior Android Engineer

About Me

I am passionate about Android Development. I work with Kotlin and Java.

Good communication skills
Adapts easily to new environments and teams
Self-taught and curious to learn

Skills

Android

Kotlin

Java

Scrum

Clean Architecture

Career Experience

Senior Android Engineer @ Bloom & Wild

May 2024 - Present (5 months) | London, England, UK

Agile environment, developed using Java and Kotlin, Coroutines, Retrofit, Jetpack Compose, Hilt, MockK, and JUnit for unit tests and Espresso for UI tests. MVVM Pattern.
High focus on Clean Architecture & SOLID.
Multiple modules & flavours.
High impact on modernising legacy code and turning it into testable and scalable code.

Android Engineer @ Bloom & Wild

January 2022 - May 2024 (2 years 5 months) | London, England, UK

Agile environment, developed using Java and Kotlin, Coroutines, Retrofit, Jetpack Compose, Hilt, MockK, and JUnit for unit tests and Espresso for UI tests. MVVM Pattern.
High focus on Clean Architecture & SOLID.
Multiple modules & flavours.
High impact on modernising legacy code and turning it into testable and scalable code.

Android Engineer @ Talkdesk

April 2021 - January 2022 (10 months)

Agile environment, developed using Kotlin, Coroutines, Ktor, Jetpack Compose, Hilt, MockK and JUnit for unit tests and Espresso for UI tests. MVVM Pattern.
Following Clean Architecture & SOLID.

Android Developer @ Softinsa

December 2017 - April 2021 (3 years 5 months) | Tomar, Santarém, Portugal

"BizkaiUP" - 10k+ users on Play Store

An application where the population of Bizkaia can check COVID-19 related news, beaches current occupation and information, use an Augmented Reality tool developed with ARCore to measure the distance between each other, receive push notifications with Firebase every time a new article is created.
Had a big impact on this project in terms of effectiveness, by reducing 5 weeks in the initial estimated development time.
Agile environment.
Developed using Kotlin, Coroutines, Retrofit, Hilt, JUnit for unit tests and Firebase Push Notifications.
MVVM Pattern.

"Bank of Cyprus" - 200k+ users on Play Store

One of the biggest bank sector IT Projects signed to that date within the Greece/Cyprus entity, with the collaboration of IBM Spain, IBM Portugal and IBM Greece.
One of the very few IBM teams that have delivered bank aggregation on that time.
Had a big impact on this project in terms of effectiveness, by maintaining myself committed and dedicated in order to achieve its committed targets always successfully.
Agile environment.
Developed using Kotlin, RxJava, Retrofit, Koin, JUnit for unit tests, Google Maps and Firebase Push Notifications.
MVP Pattern.

"Electricity Authority of Cyprus"

Used to manage work orders, with the collaboration of IBM Portugal and IBM Greece.
Agile environment.
Developed using Kotlin, RxJava, Retrofit, Moshi, IBM Maximo, Open Street Maps and JUnit for unit tests.
MVVM Pattern.

"SmarterFest" - 5k+ users on Play Store

Agile environment.
Developed using Kotlin, Coroutines, Retrofit, JUnit for unit tests and Open Street Maps.
MVVM Pattern.

Software Developer

October 2017 - December 2017 (3 months) | Tomar, Santarém, Portugal

Server Monitoring Web App: Developed for client-specific virtual machines management in collaboration with IBM Portugal. Technologies used: Django, Python, Softlayer, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL.
Python Scripting: Python scripts for a well-known Portuguese TV station, to transfer files between server folders using FTP. Technologies used: Python, IBM Aspera.
Software Testing: Wrote tests for a Portuguese Communications company management website. Technologies used: RobotFramework, PyCharm.

Projects

JetWeatherfy

This is a weather forecast application, using Fake data, developed on the 4th Week of the official Google Android Dev Challenges with Jetpack Compose. Happy to announce this was a winner in the Code Quality category.

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