Benoit Billington is a seasoned Android developer and solutions architect with 14 years of experience building mobile-first products and leading engineering teams across fintech and consumer apps. Based in Brussels, he has driven architecture, QA, security and build-pipeline improvements at scale—most recently shaping payment experiences at In The Pocket and earlier leading Android teams at KBC and Cake. He combines hands-on Kotlin/Android development (including Kotlin Multiplatform work and contributions to the well-known android-maven-plugin to support AARs and SDK tooling) with product-minded leadership that standardizes processes and accelerates delivery. Known for pragmatic architecture and UX sensitivity, he repeatedly turns complex requirements into reliable, testable mobile features while mentoring teams and introducing modern CI/CD and static-analysis practices.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bac+3 Informatique de gestion, Bac+3 Informatique de gestion at Haute Ecole 'Léonard de Vinci', Bruxelles
Maven Plugin for Android Application development and more
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:65 commits, 17 PRs, 34 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Benoit primarily focused on enhancing the Android Maven plugin's functionality. Their contributions involved fixing paths and integrating tools for Android SDK, specifically addressing issues related to SDK structure, DX paths, and zipalign. They also worked on adapting the plugin to support AAR (Android Archive) files, including modifying the build process to incorporate classes and resources from AAR dependencies and integrating R.txt files.
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