Mohammad
Haidar
AI-Native Mobile Engineer
Android & React Native• 10 Years of Shipping Mobile Apps
About Me
Mobile Engineer with 10 years of experience and deep expertise in Android, Kotlin, and Jetpack Compose. Former EU Blue Card holder with 4+ years at Omio in Berlin. I operate at 3x productivity through AI-augmented development — leveraging Copilot, Claude Code, and ChatGPT for code generation, architecture decisions, and debugging. Heavy contributor to both native Android and React Native codebases.
Technical Skills
Work Experience
Senior Mobile Engineer(Platform Team)
Dec 2021 — Present
- ▸Working on the native Android side — Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines/Flow, and Clean Architecture
- ▸Started on the post-booking team, building features serving 2M+ monthly active users
- ▸Moved to the Platform team, owning overall app structure, release process, and deployments
- ▸Drove a weekly release train — RC cut, Maestro E2E gate, staged rollout, and production deployment — all orchestrated through Jenkins pipelines
- ▸Built AI-augmented Maestro E2E testing framework, using AI to handle flaky selectors, dynamic content, and non-deterministic UI states that break traditional E2E approaches
- ▸Heavy contributor to the React Native migration — built native-to-RN bridging layer and delivered cross-platform features alongside native Android work
- ▸Owned CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and app-wide migrations
Android Software Engineer
Apr 2018 — Nov 2021
- ▸Single-handedly built social platform from concept to 100K+ users (4.7★ rating)
- ▸Architected scalable MVVM architecture supporting 10x user growth
- ▸Implemented WebRTC real-time communication handling 50K+ daily conversations
- ▸Established CI/CD pipeline reducing deployment time from 2h to 15min
Android Software Engineer
Jun 2017 — Mar 2018
- ▸Integrated Mastercard MCBP Mobile Payment SDK processing $5M+ monthly
- ▸Led ZainCash v2.0 development serving 400K+ users across MENA (99.9% uptime)
Mobile Developer
Aug 2015 — May 2017
- ▸Developed Flugen Rides — Uber-like platform for Lebanese market with real-time ride matching
- ▸Created Abu Dhabi Laws app for UAE government, improving citizen access to legal information
Featured Projects
Highlights from 10 years of building mobile products across travel, social, fintech, and government sectors.
Omio
10M+ downloads on the Play Store. Built post-booking features serving 2M+ MAU, then moved to the Platform team owning app structure, release process, E2E integration, deployments, and migrations.
mysay Social Platform
Built a social platform from scratch as the sole Android developer — from concept to 100K+ users with a 4.7 Play Store rating, featuring WebRTC real-time communication.
ZainCash v2.0
Led the development of ZainCash mobile wallet v2.0, serving 400K+ users across the MENA region with 99.9% uptime and Mastercard payment integration.
React Native Migration
Led the initiative to migrate Omio's native Android features to React Native, building the native bridging layer and enabling true cross-platform development.
Maestro E2E Framework
Built an AI-augmented E2E testing framework with Maestro, using AI to tackle flaky selectors, dynamic content, and non-deterministic UI — the problems that usually make E2E tests unreliable.
Flugen Rides
Developed an Uber-like ride-hailing platform for the Lebanese market with real-time ride matching and driver tracking.