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Welcome to the Koin Champions Program

Become a Koin Community Lead and use your passion to help educate and grow the Koin community.

What's in it for you?

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Choose your Koin Community Lead role

Apply as a Koin Content Contributor or a Koin Technical Contributor—pick the path that matches how you love to help devs with Koin.

Koin Content Contributor

Create content that helps developers learn and adopt Koin.
  • Write articles, tutorials, short videos, or posts

  • Host or speak at meetups, talks, or workshops

  • Share releases, tips, and best practices

Koin Technical Contributor

Improve Koin through hands-on technical contributions, testing, and feedback.
  • Test releases and share feedback

  • Improve Koin and documentation

  • Collaborate with the Koin team

What happens next?

From application, to becoming a Koin Community Lead.
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Ready to apply?

It takes just a few minutes.

 

Meet the Koin Community Leads

The folks helping to build and spread the word about Koin around the world.
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Pedro Francisco de Sousa Neto 🇧🇷
Koin Technical Contributor

Pedro is the very first Koin Community Lead ever, representing Brazil. He has extensive experience in Android development, Kotlin, and of course Koin, and truly embodies the open-source spirit. We’re incredibly lucky to have him onboard.

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Mykola Miroshnychenko 🇹🇭🇺🇦
Koin Content & Technical Contributor

Originally from Ukraine and now based in Bangkok, Mykola has deep experience in Android, Kotlin, KMP, and Koin. He’s an educator at heart (creator of his skool, LearnKMP.com) and loves sharing what he learns on LinkedIn, Medium, and YouTube. An open-source spirit through and through!

 

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Iñaki Bes 🇪🇸
Koin Content Contributor

Iñaki is from Huesca, Spain, and he’s all about building with purpose. Living in a tiny village with 1,000 years of history, Iñaki is dedicated to supporting his rural community through his project, Religada Dichital. He's a passionate Kotlin Multiplatform Developer, and after experimenting with Dagger Hilt, he’s back to Koin, excited to use it in his KMP projects.

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Nathan Fallet 🇫🇷
Koin Content & Technical Contributor

Nathan Fallet is a Kotlin mobile and backend dev, building real-world apps with KMM and Ktor. He shares practical content on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Medium, contributes to Kotlin open-source libraries, and is creating a course on building a clean-architecture backend with Ktor + Koin. He also tests upcoming Koin releases and helps improve its docs.

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Ákos Holló-Szabó 🇭🇺 
Koin Content Contributor

Akos specializes in AI and uses Kotlin and Koin to create innovative tools for logistic process optimization. He will use his unique approach and dedication to AI and open-source development to support our Koin community. Akos is also planning an interactive Koin workshop here.

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Akshay Nandwana 🇮🇳
Koin Content Contributor

With 6 years of experience in Android Engineering, Akshay has made significant contributions by improving customer experiences, advocating new tech stacks, and mentoring a team of developers. He's super active on his blog; Android Engineers, his YouTube channel, and his WhatsApp channel for Android engineers. Akshay is passionate about teaching others, particularly in Kotlin and Koin.

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Ahmed Nassar 🇪🇬
Koin Content & Technical Contributor

By day, Ahmed is a Software Engineering Lead building scalable Kotlin Multiplatform apps with Compose and Ktor, and by after hours, he shares hands-on tips on architecture and tooling across LinkedIn, GitHub, and Medium. Now he’s bringing that same energy to Koin.

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Pedro Santos 🇵🇹 (🇩🇪)
Koin Content Contributor

Pedro has years of experience in Android development and is the Mobile Tech Lead at Mercedes-Benz.io, with deep expertise and a strong passion for educating the Kotlin community about Koin. He is an active speaker who has shared his knowledge at events such as droidcon Italy. Despite a busy schedule, Pedro is always keen to share his expertise and help elevate the developer community.

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Te Zov 🇫🇷
Koin Content & Technical Contributor

Teddy is a freelance mobile dev with 6 years of Android and iOS experience after a first career in industrial automation and robotics, and he’s now focused on KMP. He’s working on his open-source KMP library Tuucho, where Koin is the foundation of the architecture, and he writes deep-dive articles about KMM, Koin, Ktor, middleware, and architecture patterns. He will write more Koin-focused stories from an application and library-author perspective.

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Nacho Carrión🇪🇸
Koin Content Contributor

Nacho is a seasoned Kotlin Multiplatform Engineer with over 6 years of experience in Kotlin. He has recently enjoyed using Koin for KMP projects. Nacho is passionate about learning new technologies and helping others implement them in their projects. He also has a great blog, Carrion.dev, where he shares his knowledge on various technologies, primarily Kotlin. We’re so excited to have him join the Koin Champions Program! Welcome, Nacho! 🎉

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Leandro Paim 🇧🇷
Koin Content & Technical Contributor

Leandro is the Director of Mobile Engineering at BTG Pactual; with 15+ years of experience he is a strong advocate for Kotlin, KMP, and Koin. You can find his articles on Medium. As a Koin Community Lead, Leandro will write articles on Koin, possibly run workshops, and help us test new Koin features.

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El Zhang 🇨🇳 (🇸🇬)
Koin Content Contributor

El has 8 years of experience in mobile infrastructure, with 4 years of extensive use of Koin. He’s a blogger, engaging speaker, and published author, as well as a senior software engineer. El’s extensive knowledge and passion for the field make him a fantastic addition to our community.

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Saif Malik 🇵🇰
Koin Content Contributor

Saif is a Senior Android Engineer who is passionate about sharing his knowledge with the community. So he writes articles and shares them on Medium and LinkedIn, bringing clear, hands-on guidance to everyday engineering problems. He will include Koin more and more in the topics he writes about.

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Kerry Bisset 🇺🇸
Koin Technical Contributer

With four years of experience using Koin, Kerry has become a master of this tool. He enjoys sharing his in-depth knowledge and insights by writing articles on Medium, helping others navigate their Koin journey.

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Renaud Mathieu 🇫🇷
Koin Content Contributor

Renaud is a co-organizer of the Paris Android User Group and AndroidMakers, and is a seasoned speaker. He has presented at droidcon London,  DevFest Toulouse 2024, and many more. He shares his knowledge with the wider developer community through his blog. He also regularly collaborates with Arnaud, Koin’s founder, to drive the community forward.

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Matthias Geisler 🇩🇪
Koin Content Contributor

If you’ve met Matthias, you know he’s passionate about all things Kotlin. He tirelessly travels all over the world sharing this passion and deep knowledge about KMP. He’s also organizing meetups in Berlin for Kotlin and Android, among others.

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Kashif Mehmood 🇵🇰
Koin Content Contributor

Kashif brings a wealth of knowledge from his experience as both the founding member and engineering manager at Markaz Technologies, and an active contributor on GitHub. He will no doubt continue to enrich our Koin community!

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Iván Garza Bermea 🇲🇽(🇺🇸)
Koin Content Contributor

Meet Iván, our new Koin Community Lead from México, now based in San Francisco! He’s been building awesome Android apps for a very long time. He’s a huge fan of Koin. Always exploring new tech, he is now diving into Kotlin Multiplatform to expand his skill set even further! Iván is passionate about sharing his knowledge and helping others grow.

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Theo Kibet 🇰🇪
Koin Technical Contributor

Theo is a Kotlin expert and active Koin advocate, he has played a vital role in organizing top Android events across Africa, like Droidcon Kenya, DevFest, and Google Developer Students Club, and was even a speaker at Droidcon Uganda.

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Jayant Kumar 🇮🇳
Koin Content Contributor

Meet Jayant, our Koin Community member from India! By day, he's a senior software engineer, but by night, he's a YouTube sensation, sharing his tech insights with the world. With his expertise and passion, Jayant is ready to rock our Koin community. Welcome aboard, Jayant!

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Koin Insights from Our Koin Community Leads

 

Articles, how-tos, and best practices from the community.

Compile-Time Safety with Koin Annotations: What It Catches, What It Doesn’t, and My Experience

By Kerry Bisset

Trying To Start a Multiplatform Company Store with Kotlin RPC, Koin, Ktor, and WASM

By Kerry Bisset

Automating Dependency Injection in Kotlin with Koin's Annotations

By Kerry Bisset

Putting Koin To Work in Android

By Kerry Bisset

I Want To Be Lazy... with Koin.

By Kerry Bisset

Injecting Dependencies with Koin in Runtime Scenarios

By Kerry Bisset

Modernizing Application Settings in Kotlin Multiplatform with DataStore and Koin

By Kerry Bisset

🚀 Koin 4.1 - Configurable, Cross-Platform, Compose-Ready 🛠️

By Iñaki Bes

🚀✨ Koin IDE Plugin is Coming Soon! 🌳🛠️

By Iñaki Bes

🤯🔎 Koin IDE's Plugin for Configuration Safety 🛠️🤯

By Iñaki Bes

🤸‍♀️ Is Koin a Service Locator or a Dependency Injector? 🤔 The answer might surprise you! 🤯

By Iñaki Bes

🎉 Koin 4.0 — Official Release 🎉

By Iñaki Bes

Transitioning from Hilt to Koin in KMP Projects 🔄📱

By Iñaki Bes

Achieving Compile-Time Safety in Koin: A Comprehensive Guide

By Nacho Carrion

Getting Started with Koin

By Akshay Nandwana

Mastering Dependency Injection

Akshay Nandwana

Integrating Koin with Jetpack Compose

By Akshay Nandwana

Understanding Koin Keywords

By Akshay Nandwana

My Koinstory

By Matthias Geisler

Getting to Know Koin Annotations

By Pedro Francisco de Sousa Neto

Dependency Injection + Dependency Inversion: More Robust and Testable Code

By Nacho Carrion

The Pursuit of Simplicity and The Dagger Dilemma

By Saif Malik

Stop Treating Dependency Injection as an Android Detail: A Koin-First Walkthrough

By Ahmed Nassar

Dependency Injection, From Basics to Koin (KMP-CMP)

By Te Zov

Dependency Injection with Koin, the Minimal Setup (KMP)

By Te Zov

Dependency Injection with Koin, Tnterfaces and Qualifiers

By Te Zov

Dependency Injection with Koin: Scopes

By Te Zov

Using Koin from Swift in a KMP Project

By Te Zov

Inside Tuucho: Image Processing with Coil, Ktor, and Koin

By Te Zov

Conferences and Meetups

Talks, workshops, and community meetups featuring Koin from our Koin Community Leads.

 

Nacho Carrion's online meetup with Android Dev Peru: "Evita sustos en runtime con Koin"
Pedro Santos speaking at droidcon Italy 2024, "Improving SDKs with Koin"

Pedro Santos speaking at droidcon Italy 2024, "Improving SDKs with Koin"

Pedro Santos speaking at KUG Munich meetup January 2025, "Dependency Injection with Koin for your SDK”

Pedro Santos speaking at KUG Munich meetup January 2025, "Dependency Injection with Koin for your SDK”

Our Mission

Our goal is to promote the adoption of Koin by sharing knowledge with the Kotlin Community.
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Are you ready to be a Koin Community Lead?

Apply now, and let’s grow Koin together.