Linden Darling
Principal Android Engineer at Core Form
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
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Top SchoolLinden Darling is a Principal Android Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience building mobile and wearable software, currently driving Android development at DroneShield while running his long-standing consultancy Core Form. He combines deep Android expertise (Kotlin/Java, wearables, React Native) with strong security, compliance and performance testing skills, having led high-profile projects for Telstra, Monash University and UN organisations. Linden is as comfortable architecting complex, offline-capable apps and secure integrations as he is negotiating stakeholder requirements on-site—he once coordinated multi-stakeholder requirements in Geneva for a six-language global app. His background spans embedded systems, systems engineering and product design, bringing a pragmatic full-stack mindset to mobile product delivery. Known for rapid, quality delivery under tight timelines, he pairs practical engineering with governance and security leadership.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
NSW HSC, NSW HSC at Canberra Grammar SchoolBachelor of Engineering Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Systems Engineering at RMIT University
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Github Skills (136)
cross-platform10
android10
react-navigation10
kotlin10
ios10
react-native10
android-applications10
react10
api9
mobile-development9
android-gradle-plugin9
stetho9
debug9
android-viewpager9
qor9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
coreform/react-native-smart-badge
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
reactreact-nativeandroidbadgenative-apps
coreform/react-native-fcm
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
reactreact-native-modulereact-nativefirebaseandroid
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