Scott Alexander-bown
Senior Android Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolScott Alexander-bown is a Senior Android Engineer with 13+ years of experience building secure, high-quality mobile apps for financial, enterprise, and consumer products, currently contributing to Lloyds Banking Group’s mobile experience. Deep expertise in Kotlin, Java, Jetpack, Coroutines/Flow, and app security is backed by widely used open-source projects such as rootbeer (root detection) and secure-preferences (encrypted SharedPreferences). He combines hands-on engineering with team leadership, CI/build optimisation, and a history of migrating legacy Java codebases to modern architectures like MVI and Compose. An author and international speaker, his 2013 book The Android Security Cookbook and numerous conference talks underscore a long-standing focus on mobile security best practices. Scott also quietly balances pragmatic tooling with product-facing polish—shipping MotionLayout UIs and performance-minded telemetry while running local meetups as founder of SWMobile. Based in Bristol, he’s as likely to be found improving Gradle builds or mentoring engineers as sipping Belgian beer after a run.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Multimedia Communication Systems Computer Science, Multimedia Communication Systems Computer Science at Bournemouth University
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Github Skills (42)
kotlin10
sharedpreferences10
sqlite10
mobile-development10
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android-gui10
ui-design10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
scottyab/secure-preferences
Jul 2013 - Jun 2020
Android Shared preference wrapper than encrypts the values of Shared Preferences. It's not bullet proof security but rather a quick win for incrementally making your android app more secure.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:2 releases, 115 commits, 24 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the Android application's codebase, focusing on UI enhancements and feature implementations. Their work included modifications to the main layout, adding features like a clear all button and a link to GitHub, and refactoring code to improve clarity. They also addressed bugs related to preference fragments and updated the sample application's user interface with a material design look and feel. Furthermore, they made security-related changes to the preferences library.
securepreferenceshared-preferencessecure-preferencesobfuscated
scottyab/rootbeer
Jun 2015 - Jun 2021
Simple to use root checking Android library and sample app
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:4 releases, 6 reviews, 66 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Scott focused on developing an Android library for root detection in the `rootbeer` repository. Their contributions included the initial implementation of root-checking functionalities by checking for the presence of root management apps, potentially dangerous apps, and binaries. They also integrated native code using JNI to enhance the root detection mechanism. Further changes involved refactoring the library, adding more root-checking methods, and converting the sample app to Kotlin.
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