Alexey Bykov
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAlexey Bykov is a Staff Software Engineer at Reddit with 9 years of Android experience and a Google Developer Expert in Android. He has shipped for large-scale products with millions of users and currently leads development at Reddit while previously driving developer experience at Revolut, slashing app size by 50% and reducing hot-fixes by 40%. A passionate community contributor, he has given dozens of talks and authored over 20 Android articles viewed by more than 400k, and he mentors engineers on build systems, architecture, and API design. He is the creator of several open-source Android libraries, including NoChat, NoPaginate, NoValid, and NoPermission, reflecting a habit of turning practical challenges into reusable tooling. Based in London, he blends hands-on Android engineering with strategic impact on CI/CD, Gradle optimization, and design systems for scalable mobile platforms. Outside of work, his ongoing content contributions and active GDE network illustrate a rare combination of technical depth and community leadership.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (102)
kakao10
testing10
instrumented-tests10
android-library10
android-app10
android-development10
permissions10
ui-testing10
fresco9
rxjava29
photopicker9
mvp9
pagination9
rxkotlin9
mediaplayer9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NoNews/Android-MVP-Template
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 35 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 4 months
NoNews/NoChat
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 75 commits, 70 pushes in 9 months
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