David Wheatley
Lead Android Engineer at Raileasy Ltd
Burgess Hill, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Wheatley is an Android Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience, currently modernising Raileasy’s mobile app using Jetpack Compose, Material Design 3, Kotlin Coroutines/Flows, Room and robust HTTP tooling. A University of Warwick degree apprentice and former Thales apprentice, he blends production mobile development with systems-level thinking from ship-based sonar work. He is an active open-source contributor and former Flarum core developer who focused on accessibility, bundle-size optimisation and modern front-end practices—skills he applies to improve app UX and cross-platform feature parity. Based in Burgess Hill, he also handles complex customer-facing ticketing and routing edge cases and implemented Google Wallet National Rail e-ticket fulfilment, showing an unusual mix of user-centered product delivery and low-level technical execution.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
GCSEs, GCSEs at Oathall Community CollegeBSc (Hons) Digital and Technology Solutions (Software Engineering), BSc (Hons) Digital and Technology Solutions (Software Engineering) at University of WarwickA-Levels, BTECs, A-Levels, BTECs at BHASVIC (Brighton Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College)
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Github Skills (16)
javascript10
lessc10
front-end-development10
css9
typescript-types7
html7
typescript7
typescripts7
drag-and-drop6
google-fonts-api6
fonts6
google-chrome-extension6
firefox6
google-chrome6
electron6
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
mobilecombos/website-frontend
Nov 2022 - Sep 2023
Gatsby frontend for mobilecombos.com
Contributions:1 review, 15 PRs, 161 pushes in 10 months
frontendgatsbyjs
Rail-Announcements/ketech-llpa-announcements
Aug 2023 - Jan 2026
Phil Sayer, Celia Drummond, Michael Comyn and Alison McKay original announcement audio snippets from KeTech.
Contributions:19 reviews, 22 PRs, 168 pushes in 2 years 5 months
audio
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