Ben Pettifer
Senior Android Engineer (Contract) at Petacoda Ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBen Pettifer is a Senior Android Engineer based in London with 10 years of professional experience building robust mobile applications for both startups and large enterprises. He has a strong background in Android, Kotlin, and Java, complemented by experience in C# and .NET, and has delivered production apps at companies like Deliveroo, HSBC, and Global. Currently contracting at Sleepwave while running his own company, Petacoda Ltd, he blends hands-on engineering with an entrepreneurial mindset. Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum environments, he repeatedly joins teams for high-impact, contract-driven projects across finance, media, and consumer services. Ben’s career traces back to a BSc in Computer Science from Warwick and nearly two decades of continuous software delivery, showing a pattern of long-term technical depth rather than short bursts of novelty. He’s the kind of engineer who transitions smoothly between legacy ecosystems and modern Kotlin-first Android stacks, often stepping into mid-project rescues and optimisation efforts.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of WarwickReed's School
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Github Skills (10)
macros6
firebase-analytics6
firebase6
android6
visual-studio6
java6
conventions5
kotlin2
chat1
slack1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bcpettifer/android-experiment-1
Nov 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:27 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
bcpettifer/android-material-design-sandbox
Feb 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 2 years 11 months
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