Aleks Krause
Verified Expert in Engineering
Android and Flutter Developer
Tallinn, Estonia
Toptal member since November 11, 2022
Aleks is an energetic and curiosity-driven Android and Flutter developer with 5+ years of experience writing top-quality clean code for high-paced businesses. In previous roles, he has worked on the Estonian COVID-19 tracking app with 100,000+ downloads and the Itella Estonian post-office application, which helps users process millions of parcels a year. Aleks is also an instructor at Udemy, teaching advanced Android development, and he loves creating beautiful applications that scale.
Portfolio
Experience
- Android - 8 years
- APIs - 8 years
- Material Design - 6 years
- Kotlin - 6 years
- SQLite - 6 years
- Java 8 - 6 years
- Flutter - 5 years
- Dart - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Android Studio, Android SDK, Flutter, Firebase, APIs, SQLite, Material Design, Model View ViewModel (MVVM), Dependency Injection
The most amazing...
...and challenging solution I've built is Itella SmartApp, an Android-based application couriers use to deliver millions of parcels every year.
Work Experience
Senior Flutter Developer
Swift Medical Inc.
- Assisted the team in developing offline functionality for the application.
- Solved various bugs with the current offline functionality.
- Helped fix issues with the Flutter web platform of the application.
Senior Android Developer
Max Planck Institute - Main
- Developed an application for verbal conversations with Azure's OpenAI chatbot.
- Saved conversations to MongoDB for further analysis using Realm.
- Created animations and SVG images for the application's UI from scratch. The application's UI constantly evolved, and we found the right fit for the client.
Flutter Developer
True Footage Inc.
- Developed a Flutter app for iOS and Android that allows real-estate appraisers to conduct inspections of a property. The app greatly increased their day to day productivity.
- Started the project and set up architecture guidelines for a team of seven developers. Developed a Flutter app for iOS and Android that allows real estate appraisers to conduct inspections of a property. The app greatly increased their day-to-day productivity.
- Used architecture that ensured multiple packages were used (a package for every feature, tool, or functionality). This allowed for a good separation of concerns and clean code.
- Helped the designers better understand how to use Material Design 3, which meant helping with the Figma designs. We created themes, components, and screens, which we used to build the application.
- Taught the team how to use Flutter and conducted code reviews for everyone.
- Set up CI pipelines for iOS and Android. We set up a workflow where merging a feature was not allowed if the pipeline didn't succeed. The pipeline ran lint and unit tests and built the APK and IPA files.
- Created a PDF generation tool. This tool helped the users create PDFs out of the data they gathered. The tool was built using Dart and Flutter.
- Optimized the image loading, scrolling, and data loading (Firebase Realtime Database read times) of the application. This made the application much faster.
- Set up guidelines on how to write unit tests and widget tests for the application. We wrote 350 tests in total, which gave us an idea of the application's health. They ran during every code merge request.
- Used Jira for daily activity monitoring and Slack for communication with the client. Integrated GitLab with Jira to track MRs and tasks and with Slack to give notifications on MRs.
Flutter Developer
Wethinkbeautiful SRL
- Verified FlutterFlow usability for creating the client's new application.
- Developed a few screens and tidied up the client's existing FlutterFlow screens using Figma designs for reference.
- Tracked tasks using Jira and communicated with the client via Slack.
Mobile App Developer
Comodule
- Helped refactor the existing app in a more testable and scalable way.
- Contributed to setting up the foundations for the team, including Jira, design and release processes, and software development best practices.
- Hosted weekly knowledge-sharing sessions for the whole company focused on the newest and most significant trends in mobile development.
- Helped refactor the Bluetooth functionality of the white label application.
- Helped implement over-the-air updates for the company's IoT modules using Bluetooth.
- Created a Bluetooth mocker application to increase developer productivity. The application worked as the IoT module and mocked its functionality. Developers could mock values the module would usually send and test different scenarios.
- Created new connection logic with the Bluetooth library to allow for a more stable connection.
Android and Flutter Developer
Fob Solutions
- Developed an application for one of the Estonian postal providers, Itella. The app deals with parcels to be delivered to addresses or smart lockers. The app connects to Bluetooth bank terminals, Bluetooth barcode scanners, and OTA smart lockers.
- Helped develop Estonia's COVID-19 contact tracing application used across the country for a given period. It works by using Bluetooth to trace who you have been in contact with.
- Contributed to developing about 20 other applications.
- Received the Newcomer of the Year recognition when I joined the company.
- Won the company's most challenging project four years in a row, which led me to be recruited for additional technical projects the company put in place.
- Played a key role in Flutter projects as one of the first people in the company to work with Flutter.
Mobile App Developer
Timbeter
- Created a new company app called Timbeter Container.
- Built tests for the company's applications using JUnit and Espresso testing frameworks.
- Handled all Crashlytics data and managed all application releases using the Google Play store.
Experience
ChallengeSens
I was the sole developer of this project and made it in my free time.
Comodule White-label Application
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.comodule.superThe application has Bluetooth and theming as its core products. It provides information about the user's IoT module and allows quick theming according to the client's needs to fit their brand.
Glia Widgets SDK
https://www.mooncascade.com/our-work/gliaGlia specializes in helpdesk software, and they wanted an out-of-the-box product their customers could easily integrate into their existing Android apps. The solution was a white-label product that could be added to the client's app as a library, only needing to be styled through some parameters to get a beautiful working helpdesk area in their app.
I took responsibility for building the app according to the client's requirements and figuring out all the technical elements involved.
Elisa Store Demo Applications
I've created these Android applications alongside a design and a back-end team.
Timbeter
https://timbeter.com/I was the Android developer in a team of machine learning and back-end developers.
Itella SmartApp
The application was built for performance and handling significant amounts of data using the device's camera or a Bluetooth barcode scanner to scan barcodes. It used Bluetooth to also connect to an Ingenico payment terminal so that couriers could accept bank payments at a client's doorstep.
The app used the Android Room library to help maintain the app's local database, although many SQL queries were still built from scratch. It was also heavily focused on offline caching, so a huge system was created for that. The whole application was constantly getting unit tests and Espresso screen tests.
I was the Android developer in a team of back-end developers, designers, and project managers. It is probably the most amazing app I have built yet in terms of complexity. It can't be shown externally, as it is an in-house project.
Ömsen Hälsa
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.omsenhalsa.appEducation
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Systems and Networks
TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology - Tallinn, Estonia
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, CameraX, Camera API, Google Maps, RxJava 2, Bitbucket API, Slack API, GitHub API, RxJava
Tools
Android Studio, Android Jetpack, Jira, Figma, Android NDK, Trello, Firebase Test Lab, Firebase Authentication, Gradle, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Crashlytics, Keycloak, Slack, Sentry, Grafana, Azure OpenAI Service
Languages
Java 8, Kotlin, Dart, Java, C++, C, XML, Go, Swift, GraphQL, JavaScript, C#
Frameworks
Android SDK, Flutter, JUnit, Dagger 2, Dagger, Core Bluetooth, Espresso, Scandit, Swagger, WebApp
Paradigms
Model View ViewModel (MVVM), Dependency Injection, Model View Presenter (MVP), Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Unit Testing, Model View Intent (MVI), Load Testing, HL7 FHIR Standard
Platforms
Firebase, Android, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE), Bitrise, Mapbox, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Raspberry Pi, Twilio, Android TV, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), FlutterFlow, iOS, Azure
Storage
SQLite, Cloud Firestore, MySQL, Realm, MongoDB
Industry Expertise
Healthcare
Other
APIs, Material Design, Google Play Store, CI/CD Pipelines, Java Native Interface (JNI), Mobile App Development, Jetpack Compose, Ingenico, RFID, Linear Algebra, Bluetooth Beacons, Mobile GPS, Speech to Text, SDKs, Bluetooth, GPS, Team Management, Knowledge Sharing, UI Animation, Automated UI Testing, Firebase Hosting, Algorithms, Pipelines, Coroutines, LiDAR, PDF, Text to Speech (TTS), Azure Text to Speech, Audio, Large Language Models (LLMs), Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, Firmware
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