How Android devs can advance their career with KMP

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You’re a skilled Android developer who knows the ecosystem inside and out. But what’s the next step in your career? How can you leverage your existing Kotlin expertise to build for more platforms, increase your market value, and future-proof your skills?

Join us for a practical livestream where we’ll map out the journey from a dedicated Android expert to a full-stack Kotlin Multiplatform professional. We’ll skip the buzzwords and focus on real-world skills, mindset shifts, and the career opportunities that KMP unlocks.

You will learn:

  • The key concepts you need to master beyond Android;
  • What kinds of roles are opening up for KMP developers — and what hiring managers are looking for;
  • Actionable steps to start your first KMP project and build a portfolio piece that stands out;
  • Your career questions answered by our panel of experts.

This session is for any Android developer who’s curious about KMP and wants a clear, honest guide to making it their next career move.

Speaking to you

Pamela Hill and Márton Braun

Pamela is a Developer Advocate for Kotlin Multiplatform at JetBrains and has more than 20 years of experience writing desktop, web and mobile apps.

Márton is a Kotlin Developer Advocate at JetBrains, working on making Kotlin Multiplatform awesome. Passionate about education, he’s a guest lecturer at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.He’s been contributing to the community through writing, speaking, and open source libraries since his university days. He is a Google Developer Expert for Android, and a co-organizer of Android Budapest.
Zac Sweers
Zac is a mobile engineer with primary focus areas in Kotlin, OSS, Android, metaprogramming, and avoiding sniffly APIs. He’s the creator of a few open source projects like Circuit, Metro, CatchUp, AutoDispose, and active contributor to several more. Previously @ Slack, Uber, Flipboard.
Philipp Lackner
Philipp Lackner has over 14 years of experience in the software field. Over the past years, he built a following of over 225,000 developers on social media who trust his work. With over 20,000 sold copies of his courses and 1,000h+ spent for teaching Android concepts, he already helped hundreds of thousands people to learn practical skills they can immediately apply. He has a degree in computer science, however it didn't go as expected. The amount of theory that was taught in university made him think about a better approach to learn what is really needed in the real world. Over time, Philipp found mentors who taught him exactly that in a practical setting. That was the game changer for his career. After having worked for dozens of companies around the globe as a freelance developer, Philipp now wants to teach other mobile developers what really counts for becoming an outstanding developer.
Russell Wolf
Russell started his first Kotlin Multiplatform project the day after it was possible to share code between JVM and Kotlin/Native. He is the author and maintainer of Multiplatform Settings, a key-value storage library which was one of the earliest mobile multiplatform libraries available. He loves finding new ways to connect with this community and help people and organizations use this technology.
Chris Krueger
Chris is a Berlin-based indie developer with over 14 years of experience in software development. After working as an Android Architect at KAYAK, he transitioned to full-time entrepreneurship in 2025, focusing on Kotlin Multiplatform development. He recently won first place in RevenueCat's Shipathon challenge for KMP with the app Momental. His technical background includes Java enterprise development, architectural design, design systems, and cross-platform code sharing.