Summary
Maia Grotepass is a Senior Staff Android Engineer based in Germany with 13 years of mobile-first experience, currently leading Android efforts at Qonto after shaping platform strategy as Android Competency Lead at Luno. She brings deep Kotlin/Java expertise and a long track record of shipping native Android apps across fintech, commerce and embedded domains—from merchant banking apps to consumer storefronts and device-level JNI/C++ work. Maia blends pragmatic engineering leadership with hands-on development, mentoring teams to deliver robust, scalable mobile products. Unusually, she couples an engineering background with an M.A. in Digital Art, informing a creative approach to interactive, code-based installation work alongside production software.
13 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
M.A Digital Art, M.A Digital Art at University of the Witwatersrand
B.Ing Engineering, B.Ing Engineering at University of Stellenbosch
University of South Africa
Spanish, German, French, Afrikaans, English