Ahmed Tikiwa

@ahmedtikiwa

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Google Developer Expert, Senior Software Engineer & Android Tech Lead, passionate about building software solutions that make an impact in the world. A husband and father of two sons, a model, a singer and musician.

I am also a Exchange with Google Developers Mentor

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I'm open to

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making introductions,

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and brainstorming.

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Jul 2022 - Present

GDE Android, Google Developer Expert

Sep 2021 - Present

Senior Software Engineer: Android, Luno

Aug 2021 - Aug 2021

Android Tech Lead, Cartrack

Mar 2019 - Jul 2021

Software Engineer: Android Tech Lead, Luno

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Became a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Android

Inspired by my fellow #RoadToGDE participant Akanksha Singh, here is my journey to becoming a Google Developers Experts as part of the amazing #RoadToGDE program with my mentor 🤖 Filip Babić. This ...

Today I was a guest speaker at the Android Dev Discussion Twitter space hosted by GDE Madona Syombua & Matt Mckenna on how I became a contributor to the Google Developers Dev Library and what the l...

My talk was accepted at Droidcon Lisbon 🎉🙌🏻

Open Source

My Google Developers Dev Library author profile is now live https://devlibrary.withgoogle.com/authors/akitikkx, thank you Google, Google Developers 🙏 #DevelopWithGoogle #AndroidDev #opensource #tha...

I am excited to share that I am officially part of the Google Developers Dev Library Team as a contributor! My open-source project Upnext: TV Series Manager https://github.com/akitikkx/upnext is th...

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I wrote an article "My journey to having my open-source Android app featured on the Google Developers Dev Library" which has been published by ProAndroidDev https://proandroiddev.com/my-journey-to-...

I wrote an article "Replacing BottomSheetDialogFragment with Jetpack Compose's ModalBottomSheetLayout: A Compose Journey" which has been published by ProAndroidDev https://medium.com/p/901d31a18aa3...

Android Studio Bumblebee now includes wireless ADB debugging. I wrote an article on how to get this set up. My article was published in ProAndroidDev https://proandroiddev.com/wireless-adb-debuggin...

My article was published by @ProAndroidDev! https://proandroiddev.com/askandroid-a-summary-of-the-questions-asked-and-answered-at-android-dev-summit-2021-7d0b707da924