I build the technical side of mobile products, and I stay accountable for how they behave after launch.

I have spent roughly nine years in professional software development. Most of that time has been spent on React Native — building applications from an empty repository, taking over codebases that had drifted, and leading mobile teams through releases that could not slip.

The work I do best sits between product and engineering. A founder describes what the business needs; my job is to turn that into an architecture that can be built by a small team, shipped to two app stores, and changed again in six months without a rewrite.

I am not only a mobile engineer. I write the Node, Laravel, Python and FastAPI services the apps talk to, design the MySQL and PostgreSQL schemas underneath them, and handle the parts most people would rather avoid — native modules, push delivery, subscription state, real-time transport, release pipelines.

I have also led mobile engineers. That changed how I write software: I optimise for the person who inherits the codebase, not for the version of me that already has the whole system in my head.