Jason Toms

Android dev and Engineering Manager at Stø

Jason is an Android developer and Engineering Manager at Stø (the people who make BankID and BankAxept). He has been making Android apps for 9 years, and has been an engineer for 12. He likes his cats, tv shows, single player story-driven games, and avoiding conversations about hobbies so people don't think he is boring.

I don't have any technical debt

I can guess a few things you might be thinking now. Either I am lying, or I just don't know what technical debt is. Or maybe I am just bad at my job and these opinions will blow up in my face a year from now. Maybe the last one is true, time will tell! But I think a lot of technical debt is a mindset about your codebase. But over the last two years, we have taken our Android app, used by millions of Norwegians, from a place where you could see its legacy as an SDK to a codebase where we can make changes and add features so quickly it can be inconvenient. I think the way we got here is pretty simple: take ownership of your codebase. In this talk, I will explain what that loaded statement means, and how you too can be tech debt free in no time!