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Muhammed Ali Kocabey
Akbank · Staff Android Engineer Android, written for production.

Muhammed Ali Kocabey.

5+ years on Android. NFC identity verification SDK in production at Akbank Mobile. Aspectify and SecureCheck on GitHub.

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  • Kütahya, Turkey
  • Open to new opportunities
  • Kotlin · Compose · KSP · Coroutines
  1. 5+ years on Android
  2. $1-2M annual license replaced by the NFC SDK
  3. 6 production apps shipped
  4. 17+ public GitHub repos
  5. PSD I + PSM I · Scrum.org
  6. 4 languages: Kotlin · Java · Swift · Python
As of May 2026

What I'm working on now

Akbank Mobile — NFC identity verification

KSP-based build-time codegen for the navigation/router module, currently rolling out to production.

Aspectify

AOP framework on Kotlin Reflection + Dynamic Proxy — annotation-driven logging, retry, caching, timeout.

Podcast — Shaping the Future of Android

Scalable architectures, Kotlin mastery, real-world tactics. Live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and Deezer.

02 · Track record

Professional experience

  1. Staff Android Engineer

    Akbank T.A.S. (via Veripark)

    Jan 2026 — Present
    • Wrote and shipped the NFC identity verification SDK. Live in Akbank Mobile since Feb 2026; replaces a third-party solution that cost the bank $1-2M/year.
    • Wrote shared Hilt multibinding patterns and a common network-response architecture; in use by 5+ teams.
    • KSP build-time codegen for the navigation/router module; rolled out org-wide to production.

    Kotlin · NFC · KSP · Clean Architecture · Hilt · Coroutines/Flow · CI/CD

  2. Senior Android Developer

    Akbank T.A.S. (via Veripark)

    Feb 2024 — Jan 2026
    • Migrated 8+ financial modules (investment flows, SIM block, corporate admin, limit management) to MVVM + UseCase. 80–90% test coverage per module.
    • Wrote the RxJava → Coroutines migration PoC and lifecycle-aware utilities; used across 15+ feature modules.
    • Closed session-management and routing crashes on admin/account screens.

    Kotlin · MVVM · UseCase · RxJava → Coroutines · Clean Architecture

  3. Android Developer

    Akbank T.A.S. (via Veripark)

    Feb 2023 — Feb 2024
    • Wrote parameterized UI components (CalendarSelectable, DoubleOption) used by multiple teams.
    • Contributed to static-analysis, encryption, and secure-coding pipelines.

    Kotlin · Static Analysis · Encryption

  4. Android Developer

    Altamira Digital

    Oct 2022 — Feb 2023
    • Built 5 smart-life and loyalty apps from scratch (Zorlu World, TAV Passport, 42 Maslak, Emaar, Nidalife). Play Store approval on first submission.
    • Reduced runtime issues and crash rate on ALiving and Zorlu World production apps.

    Kotlin · MVVM · REST · Play Console

  5. Android & iOS Developer

    Comodo / Xcitium

    Jul 2021 — Oct 2022
    • Maintained a cross-platform mobile security app solo (Android/Java, iOS/Swift): antivirus scanning, runtime threat detection, device integrity.
    • Cut threat-detection latency by ~25% via the security-testing workflow.

    Kotlin · Java · Swift · Backend integration

  6. Founder & Developer

    ScoreUpp

    Jan 2019 — Jun 2021
    • Built an NLP analytics platform that extracts sentiment and categories from Play Store reviews (BERT, SymSpellPy, custom classifiers).
    • Beta launched with 200+ early adopters.

    Python · Flask · BERT · SymSpellPy · Android · NLP

03 · Open source

Open source & key projects

01

NFC Identity Verification SDK

Akbank · 2025-2026 · production

Architected a complete in-house NFC ID reading and verification SDK for Android, replacing a $1-2M/year licensed solution. Live in production since Feb 2026.

  • Kotlin
  • NFC
  • Clean Architecture
  • KSP
  • CI/CD
02

Aspectify

Open source · 2025 — ongoing

AOP framework on Kotlin Reflection + Dynamic Proxy. Annotation-driven cross-cutting concerns: logging, retry, caching, timeout. Published with a Medium article and a Spotify podcast episode.

  • Kotlin
  • AOP
  • Reflection
  • Dynamic Proxy
github.com/muhammedalikcb/aspectify
03

SecureCheck

Open source · 2025

Modular Android security library with 25+ runtime and system-level integrity checks: root, debugger, emulator, hooking, and tampering detection.

  • Android
  • Security
  • Runtime Integrity
github.com/muhammedalikcb/securecheck
04

Mealz Compose App

Open source · reference app

Recipe discovery app — a reference implementation showcasing the modern Android stack: Compose, Hilt, Coroutines, Clean Architecture.

  • Jetpack Compose
  • Clean Architecture
  • Coroutines
github.com/muhammedalikcb/Mealz-Compose-App
04 · Thinking out loud

Writing & speaking

I write up production patterns and architectural decisions, and talk through them on the podcast.

05 · Stack

Skill matrix

What I ship with — measured by code in production, not by tutorials watched.

Mobile architecture

  • Kotlin
  • Java
  • Jetpack Compose
  • AndroidX
  • Coroutines
  • Flow
  • RxJava
  • Hilt
  • Navigation Component
  • KSP
  • Custom SDK
  • Clean Architecture
  • MVVM
  • MVI
  • Modularization
  • Repository
  • UseCase
  • UDF

Security

  • NFC Identity Verification
  • Biometric Auth
  • Secure Coding
  • Encryption Standards
  • Runtime Integrity Checks
  • Static Analysis
  • OWASP Mobile

Testing & quality

  • JUnit
  • Mockito
  • MockK
  • CI Test Pipelines
  • 80-90% Coverage
  • TDD
  • SOLID
  • OOP
  • DRY
  • KISS

Tooling & DevOps

  • Git
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • Firebase
  • Room
  • Retrofit
  • OkHttp
  • Azure DevOps
  • Jira
  • Confluence

AI & data (side projects)

  • BERT
  • SymSpellPy
  • NLP Classifiers
  • TensorFlow
  • Python
  • Flask
06 · Education

Credentials & education

  • Certification Professional Scrum Developer I (PSD I) Scrum.org · 2025
  • Certification Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) Scrum.org · 2025
  • Training Agile & Scrum Master Training Akbank · 2023 (advanced modules 2024)
  • Training Secure Coding Training Akbank · 2023
  • Specialization Deep Learning & NLP — deeplearning.ai / Stanford 2020 · Neural Networks, CNNs, Sequence Models
  • Education MSc — Computer Engineering Konya Technical University · Sep 2022 — Present
  • Education BSc — Computer Engineering Konya Technical University · 2016 — 2021