Dean Wild
Principal Software Engineer at Vantiva
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDean Wild is a Principal Software Engineer based in Belfast with 11 years of hands-on experience building Android and cross-platform mobile solutions, combining deep expertise in Android, AOSP, NDK and Java with C/C++, C#, Python and cloud tooling like AWS. He has led and consulted on mobile and embedded projects across industry players such as CommScope, ARRIS and Tesco, and now drives platform-level engineering at Vantiva. Comfortable from low-level native code to full-stack services (Flask, ASP.NET) and real-time media (WebRTC), he frequently bridges hardware-constrained systems and modern cloud-native workflows. A pragmatic freelancer and active GitHub/StackOverflow presence, he pairs consultancy experience with product delivery, often surfacing optimisations that reduce platform complexity while accelerating time-to-market.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The Harvey Grammar SchoolFirst Class Honours BEng Computer Systems Engineering, First Class Honours BEng Computer Systems Engineering at University of Kent
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Github Skills (104)
searchbar10
wrapping10
android-library10
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showcaseview10
kotlin10
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textview10
signal10
messenger9
android-database9
material-design9
android-menu9
save9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
deano2390/MaterialShowcaseView
Jun 2017 - Nov 2022
A Material Design themed ShowcaseView for Android
Contributions:16 releases, 18 commits, 21 PRs in 5 years 5 months
materialandroidshowcaseviewsearchbarmaterial-design
deano2390/Logger
May 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:11 releases, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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