Niek Akerboom
Senior Developer at SAP
Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNiek Akerboom is a Senior Developer with over a decade of hands-on experience in mobile app development and a proven track record of shipping Play Store apps across banking, education, and social media. He has progressed from developer to lead roles, most recently joining SAP after leading a small engineering team at Marino Software where he combined technical guidance with practical delivery. Deeply proficient in Android, Kotlin, and Java, Niek specializes in Kotlin Multiplatform, modern UI with Jetpack Compose, robust concurrency with Coroutines, and clean architectures (MVVM/MVI). He pairs strong tooling and QA practices—custom static analysis rules, unit and UI testing, CI/build distribution—with pragmatic database and networking expertise (Room, SQLDelight, Retrofit, Ktor). Based in Ingolstadt, Germany, he continuously explores new technologies and even hones productivity at the editor level through advanced Vim practice. Beyond titles, his profile reflects a balance of crafting production-ready mobile experiences and improving team workflows through disciplined conventions and automation.
5 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor, Computer Software Engineering at Hogeschool Leiden
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (6)
android-animation10
audio9
transcoding8
hardware8
mp48
android7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
niekdev/LiTr
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Lightweight hardware accelerated video/audio transcoder for Android.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
audio-videoacceleratedandroidaudiotranscoder
linkedin/LiTr
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
Lightweight hardware accelerated video/audio transcoder for Android.
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 7 months
audio-videomp4acceleratedandroid-animationandroid
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