Principal Engineer

I build products that scale — and the teams that keep them that way.

Thirteen years of shipping consumer software across Europe, the Middle East, and India — from invoicing platforms trusted by small businesses to live classrooms serving millions of students.

13+
Years shipping
6
Countries worked in
Millions
Of users reached
01About

The best engineering is quiet. It's the invoice that's never wrong, the classroom that never drops, the app that just works on a five-year-old phone.

My path started in India in 2013, building Android apps and leading my first team. From there I moved through product companies across Estonia, Germany, and Finland — shipping fintech, communication, and delivery products — before taking on principal-level work in education technology.

Along the way I've built SDKs from inception to deployment, rewritten legacy apps without stopping the release train, and mentored engineers who now lead teams of their own. I care about boring technology, small teams with high trust, and products that respect the people using them.

02Selected Work

Noon

2023 — Present

Principal Engineer · EdTech

Noon is a social learning platform serving millions of students across the Middle East and South Asia. I work at the intersection of product and platform: architecture for live, interactive classrooms at scale, performance on low-end devices and unreliable networks, and raising the engineering bar across teams. The hard problem isn't features — it's keeping a real-time learning experience smooth for a student on a budget phone with a patchy connection.

Zervant

2020 — 2022

Mobile Team Lead · FinTech

Zervant builds invoicing software used by hundreds of thousands of freelancers and small businesses across Europe. I led the mobile team through a period of real growth: modernising the app architecture, building out invoicing and payments experiences, and turning mobile from a companion app into a product owners could run their entire billing on. Fintech taught me that correctness is a feature — nobody forgives an invoice that's wrong.

Wolt

2022

Senior Software Engineer · Delivery

At Wolt (part of DoorDash), I worked on consumer-facing delivery experiences in one of Europe's most polished product organisations — a masterclass in how craft and speed can coexist.

Earlier

2013 — 2020

Germany · Estonia · India

Senior software developer at 1&1 Mail & Media (United Internet) in Germany, on mail products used by tens of millions. Senior Android developer at Mooncascade in Estonia, building fintech and BLE-connected products. Android team lead at NeoSOFT in India, where I learned to ship — and to lead — the hard way.

03Craft

Mobile platforms, end to end

Android and Kotlin first; React Native when it's the right tool. Architecture that survives years of change.

Performance at the edge

Real-time systems tuned for low-end devices and unreliable networks — where most of the world actually is.

SDK & platform design

SDKs built from inception through deployment — clean contracts, versioning discipline, zero-surprise upgrades.

Fintech-grade correctness

Money software has no "mostly right." Testing, invariants, and design that make wrong states unrepresentable.

Technical direction

Making decisions legible — writing, RFCs, and architecture reviews that let teams move fast without breaking trust.

Mentoring

Engineers I've coached now lead teams of their own. The multiplier matters more than the individual output.

04Writing

I occasionally write about mobile engineering and the craft of software on Medium and LinkedIn.

05Contact

Happy to talk about engineering leadership, mobile architecture, or interesting problems. Pick whichever channel suits you.