Joseph Van Der Wee
Head Of Mobile Engineering at Octopus Electroverse
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoseph Van Der Wee is a product-minded Head of Mobile Engineering with 11 years of experience building and leading native Android and iOS teams across fintech, health tech, and sports platforms. He has repeatedly scaled small cross-functional teams into high-performing units, instituting CI/CD, code style and review practices, and introducing Kotlin Multiplatform to accelerate cross-platform delivery. At companies from Coconut to Octopus Electroverse he has shipped major UX improvements, automated release workflows, and brought a data-driven mindset through A/B testing and analytics. He pairs hands-on engineering—having led Android and iOS architecture work and shipped consumer apps—with strategic responsibilities like preparing for audits, penetration tests, and acquisition due diligence. Based in England, he combines a mathematical background from King’s College London with a knack for turning operational friction into repeatable engineering processes. Outside day-to-day leadership, he has a history of indie app development and creating tooling and frameworks that raised team-wide quality and velocity.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics at King's College London
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Github Skills (200)
onesignal10
testfairy10
sms10
ruby10
automation10
google-pay10
push-notifications10
notification10
sdk10
payment10
kotlin-multiplatform10
apollographql10
kotlin-android10
apple-pay10
android-apps10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jvanderwee/ExoPlayer
May 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
androidkotlinmedia-playerextensibleplayer
jvanderwee/jvanderwee
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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