Alex Curran
Tech Lead - Mobile Platform
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Curran is a seasoned mobile-focused engineering leader with 14 years of experience delivering Android, iOS and frontend products across startups and consumer brands. Currently driving mobile platform strategy as Tech Lead at Kroo Bank and contributing at OVO, he combines hands-on development with technical project planning to speed delivery and improve safety. He has led cross-platform team transformations and successful product experiments—most notably an A/B test that materially increased subscription intent at The Body Coach. A Principal Engineer at Freetrade and long-time Novoda lead, he blends developer experience improvements with mentoring and hiring to scale mobile capabilities across organisations. His open-source work includes building an iOS secret-management plugin within a Fastlane environment, showing attention to secure build-and-release automation. Trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford, he brings analytical rigor to pragmatic engineering and team strategy.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Chemistry, 1st Class, Master's degree, Chemistry, 1st Class at University of Oxford
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Github Skills (19)
ios10
plugin-development10
fastlane10
automation10
android10
swift10
automations10
android-fragments9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
novoda/spikes
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
Where ideas & concepts are born & incubated
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS) & Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Mobile Developer (iOS) & Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:42 commits, 7 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to building an iOS-specific secret management plugin within a Fastlane environment. Their work included creating an initial iOS application, implementing a plugin structure, defining actions, and writing tests. Further work focused on enhancing the plugin by adding features like file creation, parameterization, and utilizing environment variables to generate Swift code for API keys.
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amlcurran/Analyst-Data
Jun 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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