I'm a line engineering manager with 10+ years in mobile, and I still write code. I joined Wysa as an early engineer, built its Android and iOS apps from scratch, and now manage its Android, iOS, backend and web engineers while leading the technical direction, including how we use AI.
Apps I've built — tap one to open it on the phone
Around a dozen engineers across Android, iOS, backend and web report to me. I'm their line manager for hiring, growth and delivery, and I'm also accountable for the technical calls across mobile, backend and AI.
I own hiring end to end, from defining roles and interviewing to making offers, plus onboarding that gets new engineers shipping in their first weeks.
Weekly 1:1s, regular performance reviews and honest career conversations. I've helped engineers step up into senior and lead roles.
I turn roadmap priorities into release plans, balance scope against capacity, and unblock early so commitments hold.
I partner daily with Product, Design and QA, and with outside companies building on our SDKs.
Managing well means knowing the work. Outside the day job I design, build and publish my own apps end to end, and I keep my AI skills current by shipping with them.
Built and published TinyLLM, which runs quantized Llama, Mistral and Gemma models fully on the phone and now generates images on-device too, with no internet. An agent router handles local function calls and loads sub-models only when needed, with NPU and GPU acceleration.
A WhatsApp bot that replies through a LangChain agent: Gemini with a web-search tool, served from a FastAPI webhook over Twilio, falling back to a local Gemma model on Ollama.
My deepest hands-on skill. I architected Wysa's Android app from scratch and still review architecture and code with the team.
APIs in Node.js with Fastify and Python with FastAPI, backed by MongoDB, written to serve the mobile clients and SDKs that call them.
Learn Punjabi, TinyLLM, Leaf and Chill Mind are live on Google Play under my own name, Wadali.in. I do the product, design, code, store listing and releases myself.
Pipelines that test, lint and scan every merge, then build for Play Console and TestFlight.
Ten years, five releases of me. Most of it at Wysa, where I went from writing the first line of the app to leading the teams behind it.
Line manager for around a dozen engineers across Android, iOS, backend and web: hiring, 1:1s, performance reviews and career growth. Technical lead for mobile architecture, backend APIs and the team's adoption of AI, and accountable for predictable releases.
Led Android, iOS and web feature delivery, release management and CI/CD. Shipped native SDKs so partners could embed Wysa in their own apps, and raised automated-testing standards.
Delivered mobile features through the full product lifecycle alongside Product, Design, Backend and QA.
Early engineering hire. Architected Wysa's native Android and iOS apps from scratch — the foundation the product still runs on.
Built native Android and hybrid apps for multiple client projects, integrating with their backend services.
Deepest hands-on in native Android; comfortable across iOS, cross-platform and the backend that feeds them.