Ben Wicks
Android Engineer at Freelance
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolBen Wicks is a seasoned Android engineer with a decade of experience building and leading mobile teams across finance, construction, and enterprise products. Currently at American Express and an ongoing technical editor for Kodeco, he blends hands-on Kotlin/Android development with mentoring and documentation to raise developer velocity and product quality. He has led large rewrites from hybrid to native, improved app reliability and security for 10k+ users, and shipped consumer-facing features that tripled ratings for a personal banking app. A pragmatic advocate of TDD, modular architecture, and modern Android tooling, he also freelances—integrating AWS GraphQL backends and shipping cross-platform Flutter prototypes—reflecting a knack for moving ideas to production quickly.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bioinformatics, Bachelor’s Degree, Bioinformatics at University of Nebraska at OmahaGraduate, Computer Science, Graduate, Computer Science at Millard West High School
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
benwicks/structured-data-demo
Feb 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 6 months
decodingandroidencodingandroid-applicationformats
benwicks/NameHelper
Oct 2021 - Nov 2024
An Android app to help you remember names of people you meet.
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 3 issues in 3 years 2 months
androidandroid-appkotlinandroid-developmentandroid-application
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