Richard Le Mesurier
Independent Android Engineer at Toptal
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolRichard Le Mesurier is an independent Android engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and stabilizing mobile apps across startups and enterprises from Cape Town. He specializes in Kotlin, Compose and Android architecture, having led teams and refactored products for reliability, testability and cost-efficient location tracking. His background stretches from early hacking on ZX Spectrum and low-level ASM to modern mobile stacks, giving him a pragmatic appreciation for performance and platform boundaries. He has a strong track record of shipping production apps quickly—from launching Mr D Food to enhancing Yoco’s POS and forming internal mobile teams at RapidDeploy. Comfortable as a solo contributor or team lead, he pairs mentoring and process improvements (CI, release management) with deep native Android know-how. An actuary-turned-developer, he brings analytical rigor and an uncommon blend of legacy systems experience and modern mobile craftsmanship.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BBusSc Actuarial Science, BBusSc Actuarial Science at University of Cape TownMatric Grade 12, Matric Grade 12 at Diocesan College
android, java, English, German
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Github Skills (116)
android10
ionic-framework10
stack9
ant9
android-intent9
displays9
android-animation9
firebase9
eclipse9
superslim9
user-interface9
android-activity9
xamarin9
firebase-storage9
podcast9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mobiRic/alc_journal
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:88 commits, 21 pushes, 8 branches in 4 days
mobiRic/StackFlairWidget
Apr 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:23 commits in 1 year 5 months
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