Profile
Staff-level mobile engineer, ~10 years, who has twice taken a product from a small team to
regional scale. Spent five and a half years at Talabat — joining at
~25 engineers and staying through its growth into one of MENA's largest food-delivery
platforms (10M+ installs), already part of Delivery Hero when I joined. At Floward
(1M+ installs), owned Android architecture, stability and the entire CI/CD, QA and release
pipeline as highest code contributor to the customer app. Deep in native Android (Kotlin,
Jetpack Compose, Coroutines), Flutter, and systems work in Rust; currently building
Drengr — two products on a shared Rust core: Actuator, which gives AI
agents eyes and hands on real devices, and Analytics, a zero-code instrumentation SDK.
Comfortable owning a mobile platform end to end — architecture, delivery pipeline, and the engineers.
Experience
Building Drengr
2026 — Present
Dubai, UAE · drengr.dev
- Two products on a shared Rust core, each shipping as one self-contained binary.
- Drengr Actuator — gives AI agents eyes and hands on real phones and simulators. Observe→act
loop returning a situation report after every action (screen change, navigation, crash, stuck).
Works where there is no accessibility tree — Flutter, games, web-views, custom canvas — by
falling back to vision and normalized coordinates. Ships as an MCP server, so any AI host
drives the device and needs no key of its own; also runs headless in CI. Replaced WebDriverAgent
with a host-less XCUITest runner embedded in the binary — identical on a laptop and in CI.
- Drengr Analytics — zero-code mobile & web analytics SDK that captures real network
traffic and behaviour, redacts PII on-device, and discovers and names business events
automatically — no tracking plan required. One capture core across native, Flutter, React Native,
web-views and games; native Android / iOS / Flutter SDKs, ClickHouse analytics.
Staff Software Engineer - Android — Floward
Jul 2021 — Aug 2026
Dubai, UAE
- Owned the architecture of the Android codebase for a gifting platform across the Middle
East and the UK (customer app: 1M+ installs) — stability, scalability, and the technical
direction of the app.
- Owned the delivery pipeline end to end: CI/CD, QA and release process, plus cross-platform
interoperability between Android and Flutter.
- Highest code contributor to the customer-app codebase; drove feature planning with product
and set engineering standards across the mobile team.
Senior Android Engineer — Talabat
Dec 2015 — Apr 2021
Dubai, UAE
- Joined when the tech team was ~25 people; grew with the company as it scaled into one of
MENA's largest food-delivery platforms (10M+ installs), already part of Delivery Hero when I joined.
- Progressed mid-level → senior; built core UI and business logic; introduced in-app analytics and
A/B testing.
- Helped lead the codebase migration to Kotlin and the team's adoption of Agile / Scrum.
Selected Products Shipped
Talabat — 10M+ installs
Floward — 1M+ installs
Floward Rider
Carriage
Otlob
iFood.jo
How I Work
I design the approach; AI coding agents write most of the code. On Drengr I worked out
each step and Claude Code translated it beside me — I wrote almost none of the Rust by hand.
Ten years of production judgement is what makes that safe: knowing what to reject is the job now,
and it is how one engineer ships work that would conventionally need a team.
Skills
LangKotlin, Java, Dart, Rust, SQL
MobileAndroid, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Flutter, Dagger 2, Room; MVVM / MVI / MVP
DataRust services, ClickHouse, REST APIs, CI/CD
PracticeTechnical leadership, system architecture, Agile / Scrum, product development
Education
M.Tech, Computer Engineering
Sarabhai Inst. of Science & Technology — CUSAT, India · 2014
B.Tech, Computer Engineering
SHM Engineering College - University of Kerala, India · 2011
Personal
Nationality: Indian·Based in: Dubai, UAE·
Languages: English (fluent)·Date of birth: 11 Nov 1989