Adam Speakman
Staff Android Engineer at Slack
New Zealand
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Top SchoolAdam Speakman is a Staff Android Engineer with 13 years of mobile experience, currently shaping Android at Slack after progressing from senior roles there. He’s built and refactored large-scale Android apps for products with millions of users, introduced reactive paradigms like RxJava, and led cross-platform mobile efforts at startups where he owned architecture, testing, and CI. Comfortable moving between startup scrappiness and enterprise rigor, he frequently influences product design and feature direction as a product-focused engineer. Notably, he has experience taking third-party apps in-house, architecting offline-first solutions, and driving maintainability through immutable data patterns and observable repositories. Based in New Zealand, he blends hands-on development, mentorship, and operational improvements to deliver reliable, extensible mobile software.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Papatoetoe High SchoolBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Auckland
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Github Skills (121)
architecture10
compose10
rotate10
intellij-plugin10
android-lint10
retrofit10
android-imageview10
java10
lint10
android-app10
okhttp10
android10
android-studio10
jetpack-compose10
gradle10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
adamsp/wsnz-android
Oct 2012 - Apr 2018
Contributions:340 commits, 2 PRs, 88 pushes in 5 years 7 months
zealandandroidearthquakesmonitoringnew-zealand
adamsp/wookmark
Dec 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:111 commits in 4 months
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