Filip Babić
Chief Executive Officer at Nexify Consulting
Osijek, Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolFilip Babić is a Google Developer Expert in Android & Kotlin and a CEO with a decade of experience building high-impact mobile products and developer tools from Osijek, Croatia. He has led Android teams at Stream (working on the world’s #1 Chat SDK) and contributed to prominent open-source projects like Stream’s Compose-based chat SDK, while also shipping apps for Rosetta Stone and AccuWeather. As an author and tech editor for RayWenderlich, he helped produce the first Kotlin Coroutines book and dozens of tutorials, blending deep technical rigor with a knack for clear teaching. Filip combines hands-on engineering, team leadership and developer relations—organizing meetups, GDG chapters and a free Android Developer Academy—to grow the ecosystem that shaped his career. Known for mentoring junior engineers and structuring scalable processes, he also brings product-focused experience from leading a mobile team whose work supported a $200M asset sale.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Matija Antun Reljković Gymnasium, VinkovciMaster's degree Computer Science & Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Science & Software Engineering at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology Osijek
English, Croatian, Russian
Github Skills (7)
kotlin10
uid10
jetpack-compose10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
android-development10
android-ui9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
GetStream/stream-chat-android
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
:speech_balloon: Android Chat SDK ➜ Stream Chat API. UI component libraries for chat apps. Kotlin & Jetpack Compose messaging SDK for Android chat
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:1 release, 1243 reviews, 177 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Filip primarily contributed to the development of the Android application within the `getstream/stream-chat-android` repository. The first commit involved a minor fix to a media capture contract. The second commit added the SDK and sample app, including initial setup for the Compose UI with Jetpack Compose, adding MessageItem composable and files for the layout and UI of the message. The third commit involved adding initial setup for message grouping within the Compose UI. The fourth commit merged the branch 'feature/forklift', with build configurations and a few minor changes.
balloonandroid-chat-sdkcomposestreamstream-chat
kodecocodes/video-jcomp-materials
Oct 2020 - May 2021
The projects and the materials that accompany the Jetpack Compose course
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
jetpack-composeandroidjetpackcomposekotlin
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