David Denton

Android Developer

https://talent.gravityer.com/david-denton

Engineering Lead // Open Source // Trainer // Speaker // Kotlin GDE // Co-creator of http4k

London, England, United Kingdom

Key Strengths

Extensive personal project experience with Kotlin, Java, and Scala, which are relevant for Android development.
Demonstrated ability to build libraries and frameworks (e.g., http4k, databob.kotlin, configur8), indicating strong foundational software engineering skills.
Experience with multi-platform development (http4kbox) suggests an understanding of cross-platform considerations.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

The candidate's extensive personal projects across various languages (Kotlin, Java, Scala, JavaScript, TypeScript) and domains (HTTP frameworks, configuration, testing utilities) suggest a strong passion for software development and continuous learning. This indicates a good cultural fit for an environment that values initiative and technical exploration. The focus on building tools and libraries also points to a problem-solving mindset.

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills and operational fit. No psychometric test results or interview feedback provided.

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Projects

http4kbox

July 29, 2018 – January 1, 2025

Multi-platform http4k demo application

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protokruft

May 5, 2018 – June 1, 2019

Generate a DSL to hide all the hideous GRPC boilerplate

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http4k

March 23, 2017 – Present

The Functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications. http4k provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services.

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refactoring-golf

February 22, 2017 – May 6, 2024

A Refactoring Golf exercise

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databob.kotlin

February 12, 2016 – September 17, 2021

Randomised, zero-boilerplate object builders

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databob.scala

April 7, 2015 – April 11, 2017

Randomised, zero-boilerplate object builders

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fintrospect

March 1, 2015 – August 26, 2020

Implement fast, type-safe HTTP webservices for Finagle

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configur8

February 6, 2015 – September 7, 2020

Nano-library which provides the ability to define typesafe (!) configuration templates for applications.

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zeit

September 15, 2013 – September 7, 2020

Clock and task scheduler for node.js applications, providing extensive control of time and callback scheduling in prod and test code

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hamsandwich

July 18, 2012 – October 25, 2015

This micro-library provides Java extensions to the Hamcrest library to provide a convienient way of declaring and combining entity Matchers which can be used in either test or production code.

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Key Strengths

Extensive personal project experience with Kotlin, Java, and Scala, which are relevant for Android development.
Demonstrated ability to build libraries and frameworks (e.g., http4k, databob.kotlin, configur8), indicating strong foundational software engineering skills.
Experience with multi-platform development (http4kbox) suggests an understanding of cross-platform considerations.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills and operational fit. No psychometric test results or interview feedback provided.

David Denton

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit

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Projects

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit