Francis Xavier Osindo
@francisxavierosindo
Senior Android engineer turning fintech visions into secure, high-performance mobile apps.
KenyaWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Android Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable, secure, high-performance mobile applications for fintech, banking, and enterprise clients. I focus on performance optimization, modular architecture, and seamless user experiences.
At Hela Capitals, I led the development of the Hela Pesa app—integrating RESTful APIs, offline-first features, and secure payment workflows that improved reliability by 15% in low-network conditions. I also streamlined CI/CD pipelines to cut deployment times by 30%, while owning the Android delivery lifecycle from planning and architecture to Play Store deployment, monitoring, and post-release improvements.
Beyond shipping product, I thrive in cross-functional collaboration with designers, backend engineers, and product owners. I mentor junior developers, apply modern Android best practices with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Clean Architecture, and Android Jetpack APIs, and use agile methodologies for rapid, quality-driven delivery.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
• Led end-to-end Android development of Hela Pesa, a fintech mobile application
supporting customer onboarding, digital lending, loan applications, repayments, account
management, and real-time notifications.
• Owned the Android delivery lifecycle from planning, architecture design, sprint
execution, code reviews, QA support, Play Store deployment, production monitoring,
and post-release improveme
• Led Android devlopment of a banking application for Equity Bank, Kenya’s leading
financial institution.
• Integrated advanced KYC verification modules, biometric authentication, and secure
fund disbursement workflows.
• Engineered robust offline-first functionality using Room and WorkManager, allowing
seamless data sync and task completion without network access.
• Collaborated with backend and
• Developed and delivered comprehensive Android training on Java, Kotlin, and Android
SDK, achieving 90% success rate in student completion.
• Built and maintained educational apps, integrating user feedback to
enhanceengagement.
• Mentored junior developers and promoted peer-learning culture, increasing productivity
by 20%.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Kabarak University
Bachelor's Degree, Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism
2016 - 2020
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
KenyaAuthorized to work in
Job categories
Skills
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