Mark Shipton
Tech Lead & Android Engineer at Monzo Bank
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Shipton is a Tech Lead and Android engineer with 11 years of professional experience, currently leading Android development at Monzo Bank. He combines deep platform expertise in Kotlin, Java and Rx with product-minded pragmatism, having founded and grown Android teams at ustwo and driven technical standards across mobile, TV, wearables and voice. Mark has a strong track record of mentoring, recruitment and line management, and pairs hands-on engineering (including CI, device farms and test suites) with backlog prioritisation and release risk management. He has guided clients across industries from automotive to media and led cross-platform adoption of React Native and Flutter to improve delivery efficiency. Early entrepreneurial work — founding Festival Buddy and consulting on Kickstarter IoT products — underlines his blend of product intuition and low-level engineering (Bluetooth, NDK, TLS). Based in the UK with a first-class Computer Science degree from Birmingham, he is known for pragmatic technical leadership that balances engineering standards with real-world product impact.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
First-class honours BSc, Computer Science, First-class honours BSc, Computer Science at The University of Birmingham
Github Skills (30)
flutter10
ios10
windows10
cross-platform10
desktop10
material-design10
android10
mobile10
macos10
dart10
mobile-development9
mobile-game9
app-framework9
web-framework9
fuchsia8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mshipton/apiai-whatami
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
ustwo/android-coding-standards
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 comment in 11 months
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