Engineer, engineering leader, and founder. I've been building Android since before there were Android phones, and spent the years since running a mobile consultancy, leading teams, and shipping the tooling underneath other people's apps.
I've worked across the range — writing the code, leading the people, and running the business.
Deep native mobile — Android from the beginning, iOS alongside it, and Kotlin Multiplatform since 2018. I've shipped developer tooling used across that ecosystem, including SKIE and the first Kotlin Multiplatform app in the App Store. Still hands-on, though these days that increasingly means directing AI agents rather than typing every line.
I ran Touchlab for more than a decade: hiring, setting technical direction, and deciding where to place bets. Much of the work was embedding with client engineering teams on architecture and adoption decisions, which is as much about how a team actually operates as it is about the code.
Founded Touchlab in 2011 and co-founded Ntive Labs. I also helped start droidcon New York and ran its first three conferences, plus the NYC Android meetup — an education in budgets, sponsors, vendors, and shipping something against a hard deadline.
Once a feature exists on one platform, an agent can build it on the other. That breaks the platform silo, turns feature parity into something you monitor, and erodes the case for cross-platform frameworks. Shopify's move back to native makes the same argument.
My droidcon USA 2026 talk. Coding agents have arrived on mobile, and mobile is a special case for one reason: two apps do the same thing.
A short interview at droidcon NYC 2024, covering ten years of running the conference, how Android development changed over that decade, and what Kotlin Multiplatform is for people who aren't developers.