Android at scale
Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, modular architecture, performance work and release-ready engineering for established consumer products.
About / Pooyan Majdabadi
Hands-on enough to build. Senior enough to see the whole system.
I’m a staff-level Android engineer and engineering leader with more than 10 years turning ambiguous product and platform needs into systems teams can ship and operate.
My work spans Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, architecture, performance, mentoring, delivery and Kotlin Multiplatform with native Compose and SwiftUI experiences.
- Engineering
- 10+ years
- Skores app downloads
- 5M+
- ITVX registered users
- 40M+
- ITVX startup gain (contributed)
- 30%
How I work
Architecture is useful when a team can carry it.
KMP & native UX
Shared product logic where it earns its place, with native Compose and SwiftUI experiences that respect each platform.
Engineering leadership
Technical direction, mentoring and pragmatic decisions that connect product intent to reliable execution.
Career path
Product breadth. Platform depth.
Regulated betting · Streaming · Telecom · Travel · Sports · Finance
- 2026–Present
Head of Engineering
Current role
Leading a Farsi-first, bilingual community platform across web, native mobile, data and human-in-the-loop AI operations.
- 2023–2025
Lead Android Developer
bet365
Delivered regulated Android platform work and co-created FollowScores from inception with Jetpack Compose, Kotlin, Material 3, modular boundaries and release readiness built in.
- 2023
Android Developer
BuiltByPixel / The Times
Re-architected the established Android app towards Clean Architecture and Compose, built reusable UI components and improved CI for safer iteration.
- 2021–2023
Lead Android Developer
Candyspace / ITVX
Modernised the mobile and tablet codebase, moved key flows to Coroutines and Hilt, delivered Compose modules and contributed to a 30% startup-time improvement.
- 2020–2021
Android Developer
Vodafone Smart Tech
Built companion-app features for connected products including a bicycle tracker and Neo smartwatch, with reusable Kotlin modules and dependable fortnightly releases.
- 2020
Android Developer
AND Digital / British Airways
Introduced Jetpack and MVVM patterns in the British Airways app and refactored core selling-flow code for better stability, testability and maintainability.
- 2019–2020
Lead Android Developer
LiveStyled
Led Android SDK development for white-label venue applications serving Tottenham Hotspur, The O2 and Wembley, while mentoring developers and raising review standards.
- 2018–2019
Lead Android Developer
UI Centric
Built UEFA.tv in a fully Kotlin Android codebase and delivered NBC and My5 applications for Fire TV with distributed international teams.
- Pre-2018
Lead Android Developer
Skores
Led Android development for a live-sports product with more than 5M downloads and supported its architectural migration from MVP to MVVM.
- Pre-2018
Lead Android Developer
Careerjet
Migrated Careerjet's job-search app and a sister dating product to Kotlin using Dagger 2 and Room, improving their foundations.
- Early career
Technology Consultant
BNP Paribas Fortis
Contributed to internal banking systems in a regulated enterprise environment, building early experience with operational and compliance constraints.
Background
Computer science, three working languages.
MSc Computer Science from Azad University and a DUT in Programming & Computer Science from the University of Bordeaux I.
C2 French Literature from the University of Bordeaux III. English, French and Persian.