Alex Forrester
Senior Android Developer at NatWest Group
Three Rivers, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Forrester is a Senior Android Developer with over a decade of commercial experience building consumer and enterprise apps for Sky, Discovery, O2, HSBC, the AA and now NatWest Group. He blends hands-on UI craftsmanship, API integration and robust app architecture with an Agile, test-driven approach—regularly improving test coverage, crash analytics and CI pipelines to raise product quality. Alex has led teams and mentored engineers while delivering large features such as streaming app schedules, multi-profile support, EU portability and sign-in/auth flows, and has migrated legacy code to native Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. As director of his own company since 2015 he pairs technical leadership with pragmatic delivery, creating SDKs and build toolchains used across products. Based in Three Rivers, England, he also brings unusual cross-domain skills from an earlier career in broadcast systems and CMS design, which inform his ability to integrate apps with media platforms and third-party feeds.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Rugby SchoolBA Spanish and Portuguese 2:1, BA Spanish and Portuguese 2:1 at University of LeedsClean Code with Robert C. Martin, Clean Code with Robert C. Martin at Skills Matter
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (15)
kotlin10
android-development10
testing10
android9
newrelic8
backlog7
asciidoc7
pandas6
python6
dataframe6
data-analysis6
documentation5
compose2
jetpack-compose1
jetpack1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PacktPublishing/How-to-Build-Android-Apps-with-Kotlin
Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
A hands-on guide to developing, testing, and publishing your first apps with Android
Contributions:13 reviews, 25 commits, 50 PRs in 1 year
hands-onpublishingdevelopinghandstesting
alexforrester/android-clean-architecture
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:29 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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