Lucas Bento
Senior Android Engineer at ANZ
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Bento is a Mobile Tech Lead with over 20 years in software engineering and a decade focused on mobile and Android platforms, currently shaping mobile strategy at Westpac. He combines hands-on Android development with platform-level leadership—driving large refactors, modularisation, CI-enforced architectural boundaries, and API contract design to improve delivery and reduce risk. Lucas has a proven track record of improving build stability and developer productivity (e.g., ~30% clean build time improvements) while standardising MVVM and Kotlin best practices across teams. He’s introduced structured AI-assisted workflows into CI and review pipelines to automate repetitive work without lowering quality standards. Based on a background that spans Java EE backend work, Spring Boot, and device-focused Android engineering, he bridges mobile and backend concerns to deliver pragmatic, maintainable systems. Outside work he prioritises real-world balance, teaching his daughter to value nature and time away from screens.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at UnisinosEnglish, English, English, English at Navitas English - Brisbane Australia
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (8)
cli9
command-line-tool9
administration8
macos8
homebrew8
binaries8
flutter2
android2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
techpotatoes/pitchup
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:105 commits, 50 pushes in 1 month
techpotatoes/apod-daydream-flutter
Feb 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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