2023–2025
bet365
bet365 & FollowScores
Lead Android Developer
Delivered regulated Android platform work and co-created FollowScores from inception with Jetpack Compose, Kotlin, Material 3, modular boundaries and release readiness built in.
Work / Selected experience
Products you know. Work I can explain.
More than 10 years building and modernising consumer mobile products across regulated betting, streaming, news, telecom, travel, venues, sports and finance.
Every note below is grounded in my CV and separates my contribution from the wider product outcome.
Brand experience
2023
BuiltByPixel / The Times
The Times
Android Developer
Re-architected the established Android app towards Clean Architecture and Compose, built reusable UI components and improved CI for safer iteration.
2021–2023
Candyspace / ITVX
ITVX
Lead Android Developer
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
Vodafone Smart Tech
Vodafone Smart Tech
Android Developer
Built companion-app features for connected products including a bicycle tracker and Neo smartwatch, with reusable Kotlin modules and dependable fortnightly releases.
2020
AND Digital / British Airways
British Airways
Android Developer
Introduced Jetpack and MVVM patterns in the British Airways app and refactored core selling-flow code for better stability, testability and maintainability.
2019–2020
LiveStyled
Major venue platforms
Lead Android Developer
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
UI Centric
UEFA.tv, NBC & My5
Lead Android Developer
Built UEFA.tv in a fully Kotlin Android codebase and delivered NBC and My5 applications for Fire TV with distributed international teams.
Pre-2018
Skores
Skores
Lead Android Developer
Led Android development for a live-sports product with more than 5M downloads and supported its architectural migration from MVP to MVVM.
Pre-2018
Careerjet
Careerjet
Lead Android Developer
Migrated Careerjet's job-search app and a sister dating product to Kotlin using Dagger 2 and Room, improving their foundations.
Early career
BNP Paribas Fortis
BNP Paribas Fortis
Technology Consultant
Contributed to internal banking systems in a regulated enterprise environment, building early experience with operational and compliance constraints.
Also building
Current & independent work.
End-to-end products and practical tooling that show ownership beyond a single platform feature.
Head of Engineering · 2026–Present
IraniLink
Leading engineering for a bilingual community product across web, native mobile, data and human-in-the-loop operations.
Local-first MCP tooling
Mailbridge for Apple Mail
Built a constrained bridge between trusted AI hosts and Apple Mail, with read-only defaults, explicit send confirmation and auditable packaging.
End-to-end KMP product
Vajeh
Designed, built, published and continue to operate a Persian word puzzle with shared Kotlin product logic and complete product ownership.