Jacky Tay
Senior Android Engineer at Xero
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Top SchoolJacky Tay is a Senior Android Engineer with a decade of experience building mobile products across enterprise and consumer domains, currently shipping Android at Xero after roles at Atlassian and Verizon Connect. He blends hands-on native development (Kotlin, Java, Swift) with architecture and team leadership, having proposed Kotlin Multiplatform prototypes to modernize legacy cross-platform stacks. Comfortable spanning UI design, API design and backend collaboration, Jacky has led cross-functional teams and mentored junior developers on large-scale projects for customers like Vodafone and Coca‑Cola Amatil. A Master of Science in Computer Software Engineering from the University of Canterbury, he pairs technical curiosity (his CliftonStrengths top themes include Learner and Intellection) with disciplined delivery and a practical eye for product quality. Outside work he iterates on side mobile apps and reads widely, reflecting a continual appetite to explore new mobile and cloud technologies.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Software Engineering at University of Canterbury
English, Chinese, Malay
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Github Skills (20)
swift6
facebook5
google4
storage4
nativescript4
admob4
authentication4
firebase4
firestore3
tensorflow3
nativescript-plugin3
machine-learning3
analytics2
sign-in-with-apple2
crashlytics2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jacky-tay/iOSSwiftJsonViewer
Apr 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
jacky-tay/SwiftStickyHeaderTableView
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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