Tomáš Beňo
Senior Android Developer · Slovakia (CET) · [email protected] · Website · GitHub · LinkedIn
I'm a Senior Android Developer with over 6 years of professional experience. Comfortable owning projects end to end, remotely and without supervision.
I'm also competent at: making websites in Rails, designing in Figma, Linux hosting, etc.
Professional experience
- ScrumWorks, s.r.o. - Social platform (adult industry)
- Android Developer | Feb 2025 - Apr 2026
- Large social platform spanning messaging, video calls, dating, forums, blogs, stories, live events, webcam streaming, chat rooms, payments and payouts, identity verification, and social feeds with image/video sharing. ~245 screens, hundreds-of-thousands of users across multiple countries.
- Video chat — Built peer-to-peer video calling over WebRTC.
- Text-to-speech with AI — Built a Ruby on Rails pipeline that used Claude to identify speakers in written stories, then synthesized them with ElevenLabs so each character's lines were voiced separately.
- Career break - Jan 2024 - Jan 2025
- ScrumWorks, s.r.o. - Social networking (adult industry)
- Android Developer | Aug 2021 - Dec 2023
- One of two developers on the app; owned the architecture.
- Converted a structureless legacy Java codebase to Kotlin and introduced MVVM.
- Career break and short stints - Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
- Spaceti, s.r.o. - PropTech
- Android Developer | Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
- Workplace experience and building intelligence platform - desk and meeting room booking, wayfinding, and occupancy analytics from IoT sensors integrated with building systems.
- Spaceflow, s.r.o. - PropTech
- Android Developer | Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
- Tenant experience app for office and residential buildings - amenity and service booking, building access, and communication between tenants and building operators.
- I was solely responsible for the app during my time there.
- ZENTITY Slovakia, s.r.o. - Software consultancy (finance & telecom)
- Android Developer | Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
- Mobile banking and telecom apps for Erste Group (the George banking platform), ČSOB and T-Mobile.
- Also mentored junior developers.
- 3oSoft, s.r.o. - Software consultancy
- Junior Android Developer | Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
- Retail store management app covering goods delivery and shelf stocking, built in a small team.
- Letter of recommendation from the company owner
- Cleverlance Slovakia, s.r.o. - Software consultancy (finance & telecom)
- Junior Android Developer | Jun 2016 - May 2017
- First job: built a banking app from scratch alongside one senior developer, then worked on further banking and telecom apps.
Personal projects
- android-sample-compose — Small Android project demonstrating architecture and coding style.
- Jetpack Compose, MVVM.
- GitHub/android-sample-compose
- Driving theory exam app (2015–2026) — Practice app for a driving theory exam.
Published on Google Play, and earned revenue. It landed me my first job at Cleverlance.
- Kotlin Multiplatform with shared UI and code
- GitHub/DrivingSchool : Play Store
- jellyfin-mobile — Client for the Jellyfin media server.
- Kotlin Multiplatform with shared UI and code
- GitHub/jellyfin-mobile
- Anima — Personal finance tracker and budgeting tool.
- Kotlin Multiplatform with shared UI and code
- GitHub/Anima-planner
Education
- Self-taught in programming, then gained experience on the job.
- Graduated as a Mechanic Mechatronic from Private Technical School Železiarne Podbrezová, Slovakia. A multidisciplinary program joining mechanics, electronics, automation and computer science, with an extended share of practical training.
Skills
- Languages: Kotlin, Java, Ruby, HTML & CSS
- Android: Kotlin Multiplatform, Jetpack Compose, Android Views/XML, Coroutines & Flow, Hilt & Koin, Room, Retrofit, Navigation 3, Material Design
- Architecture: MVVM, Clean Architecture
- Backend & web: Ruby on Rails, REST APIs, WebRTC
- AI integration: Claude API, ElevenLabs; shipped LLM and text-to-speech-backed features in production
- Infrastructure: Linux system administration, self-hosting
- Tools: Git, Figma