Rob Sessions

I have been programming in native Android since 2011. I started by teaching myself, building a Simpsons Trivia app as a personal project. Later, I took on a freelance project for the organizers of the World Memory Championship, building an Android app that enables its users to train for the annual event. I have recently extended that work, building a few supplemental apps, as well as redesigning the original one. I also redesigned the old Simpsons Trivia app, giving it a much-needed facelift. All my work on Android has been with native code utilizing Java (I’ve been using Java since 2006). A theme throughout my work is an attention to small UI details, especially animations, which (though subtle) really delight users. I am also actively engaged in the latest best practices in the Android world. I have used popular libraries like Dagger, Retrofit, and Butterknife. The code I write today also follows architectural best practices, carefully structuring the code in a manner that minimizes bugs, boosts clarity, and lends itself to future extension/modification.

I've worked with ASP.Net for 4.5 years, using it to build screens for a large SAAS web app. The screens were built first with Classic ASP (VBScript) and later migrated to ASP.Net MVC 4 (C#).

As a math geek, SQL just clicks with me. It's a language where you can say "I don't care how this gets done, I just want it done" and SQL figures it out...well, most of the time. I have years of experience not only in writing performant SQL, but also analyzing what's going wrong when it isn't performing well and making the necessary adjustments. I also have years of experience in designing database schemas from scratch. I have worked with Microsoft SQL Server as well as SQLite.