Carl Whalley
CEO at Carmichael Data Systems Ltd
Blackburn, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCarl Whalley is a seasoned Java and Android software architect and CEO with over two decades of experience delivering mobile and backend systems for telecoms, broadcasters and enterprise clients. Founder of OTAMate and the creator of LinkedIn’s largest Android group (192k+ members), he helped shape the Android community from the platform’s earliest SDK in 2007 and runs the Android Academy. He has led high-profile projects for Vodafone, Sony Ericsson and Vodafone-era clients, advised universities and training partners like the BBC, and served as Applications Director of the Mobile Data Association. Comfortable balancing hands-on engineering, cloud-backed JEE architectures and training, he also brings event-level influence—speaker, judge and DroidCon/Apps World committee contributor—reflecting a rare blend of technical depth, industry stewardship and community building.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
The Manchester Metropolitan University
Stackoverflow
3,073reputation
322kreached
13answers
28questions
Github Skills (50)
graph9
kotlin8
android8
java8
thread8
bubble8
panning7
mpandroidchart7
android-permissions6
google-play-services6
rxjava6
mandrill6
encryption6
linux6
bouncy-castle6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
otamate/ATHome
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
otamate/ATPreferences
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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