Building the mobile team from zero
Started on the web and backend side. Co-founded the mobile team with a colleague, shipped its first apps, then set the conventions, CI/CD, and hiring bar that everything after ran on.
The Problem
WebOps kept winning mobile work and rebuilding each app from scratch, with no shared conventions and no release pipeline to lean on. Every project relearned the same lessons.
What We Built
Split off from the web team with George Gendy (G.O.A.T) to start the mobile practice. Together with the team, shipped the first three React Native apps by hand, then turned the lessons into a system: shared architecture, a Fastlane and GitHub Actions pipeline for tests, builds, and store releases, and a review bar that made each app faster than the last. Introduced techniques for faster production, software templates, and reusable modules, so the projects coming in ran 5x higher and deliveries kept up. Ran hiring, and led the engineering on the rest.
Numbers We Moved
- 5×
- Projects coming in