Notes from a lead mobile engineer.
I write about Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Multiplatform, and the occasional Flutter detour — plus what it actually takes to lead a mobile team without losing the plot. No marketing copy, just what worked (and what didn't).
From the field
Mostly Compose and KMP these days, with the odd leadership post when the code needs a break.
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Hey, I'm Ahmad Najar, the person behind this blog.
I lead a mobile engineering team by day and write here by night (well — mostly on weekends, coffee in hand). This blog is where I dump the stuff that doesn't fit in a Slack thread: Compose patterns I keep reaching for, what actually happened when we moved shared logic to Kotlin Multiplatform, and the messier parts of managing engineers instead of just being one.
No sponsored posts, no growth-hacking. Just notes from someone who's still writing Kotlin most days and occasionally still gets paged at 2am.