I turn ideas and average apps into outstanding mobile products.

Gabriel Tekombo, senior Android engineer. I design and build Kotlin apps for startups and product teams, through my studio Nativia.

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I'm Gabriel Tekombo, a senior software engineer specializing in Android and mobile apps, from Douala, Cameroon. Coding since 2014, shipping to production since 2018. 8 years building mobile products for a , a , a and a used by millions. Same craft every time: architecture that lasts, , and code the next engineer will thank you for.

Gabriel Tekombo, Senior Android Engineer
02selected work

Case studies,
not screenshots.

ElectronIPTV, series detail screen

Founder buildElectronIPTV · Nativia Solutions · 2026 → now

An IPTV player people actually pay for.

Problem
IPTV apps are cluttered, unstable and choke on huge playlists, especially on low-end devices.
Solution
One premium player across phone, tablet and Android TV. Intuitive, uncluttered, fast. Playlists of hundreds of thousands of items on entry-level hardware, EPG that syncs itself, Cast, and playback that stays smooth.
Impact
5K+ downloads and paying customers on the Play Store, holding steady on the playlists that make other IPTV apps run out of memory.
  • Kotlin
  • Compose
  • Media3
  • Room
  • RevenueCat
  • Play Billing
Pictet Wealth app, portfolios overview screen

ModernizationPictet Tech · Private banking · 2025

Killing a legacy SDK without killing the app.

Problem
A wealth management app locked into Backbase: slow delivery, XML layouts, poor testability.
Solution
Progressive replacement with Clean Architecture, MVI and a Compose atomic design system across Onboarding, Portfolio, Payments and Transactions.
Impact
Fewer crashes, faster feature delivery, a codebase the bank's team can own long-term.
  • Compose
  • Clean Architecture
  • MVI
  • Design System
  • Banking

// three apps, one shared platform

PlatformWelltech · Mobile App Platform

The platform three fitness apps run on.

Problem
Several product teams shipping separate Android apps, each re-solving the same architecture, tooling and release problems.
Solution
Reusable platform components and SDKs, modularization and scalable architecture, plus CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling shared across the apps.
Impact
Product teams ship faster on a common foundation, behind apps totalling 70M+ downloads worldwide.
  • Kotlin
  • Compose
  • SDK design
  • Multi-module
  • CI/CD
  • Datadog
Picta x Walgreens photo printing app, home screen

ScalePictarine · Walgreens, CVS, Walmart · 2021 → 2024

Photo printing at retail scale.

Problem
Three retail giants, millions of users, zero tolerance for regressions on photo orders.
Solution
Owned development across the printing apps: creation, editing and ordering flows, with heavy investment in monitoring and code quality.
Impact
1M+ downloads, 500K monthly actives, 99.97 percent crash-free sustained for over two years.
  • Kotlin
  • Coroutines
  • Image processing
  • Room
  • Bitrise
  • MVVM
BlaBlaCar app, search screen

Growth featuresBlaBlaCar · Booking squad · 2024

Removing friction from millions of bookings.

Problem
Every extra step between search results and a confirmed seat costs conversions at massive scale.
Solution
Shipped Message As You Book, One Step Booking Flow and driver phone sharing inside a multi-module Compose codebase.
Impact
Smoother booking experience on one of the world's largest travel marketplaces: 100M+ downloads and 10M monthly active users, across carpool, bus and train.
  • Compose
  • Multi-module
  • Flows
  • Jenkins
  • A/B testing
03experience

Career, as a
Logcat stream.

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  1. 2026.02 → nowFull remote I/Welltech

    Senior Android Engineer · Mobile App Platform

    Platform SDKs, modularization and CI/CD tooling powering WalkFit, Yoga Go and Muscle Booster, used by millions worldwide.

  2. 2026.01 → nowDouala, Cameroon I/Nativia

    Founder · Nativia Solutions

    My own app studio: native Android and multiplatform products for companies and individuals, from concept to Play Store, plus technical consulting. Running in parallel, like any good coroutine.

  3. 2025.05 → 2025.11Remote · Luxembourg I/PictetTech

    Senior Android Engineer · Private banking

    Led the modernization of the Pictet Wealth app at Pictet Technologies: removed the Backbase legacy layer, rebuilt the UI in Jetpack Compose on an atomic design system and Clean Architecture.

  4. 2024.01 → 2024.06Paris, France I/BlaBlaCar

    Android Engineer · Booking squad

    Contributed to the Compose migration of the Pixar design system, and built a companion debug app exposing deep links and live API calls.

  5. 2021.09 → 2024.01Toulouse, France I/Pictarine

    Android Engineer · Photo printing

    Integrated Stripe in-app payments, moved navigation from FragNav to the Navigation Component, and wired Smartlook and BigQuery for observability.

  6. 2020.08 → 2021.01Remote · Lyon, France I/WHO

    Android Engineer · WHO Academy

    Migrated the app from Java to Kotlin with Clean Architecture, built custom UI components and an AR onboarding module teaching hygiene measures.

  7. 2017 → 2020Douala, Cameroon I/Foundations

    Android Engineer · Variance, IUC, Digital House

    White-label mobile banking from scratch, a university super-app on the Play Store, fintech and payments. Where the craft was forged.

04stack

Building for
the long run.

Structure is a feature. It’s what keeps an app fast to change on month twenty‑four, not just month one.

build-logic :app :feature:auth :feature:media :feature:billing :core:ui :core:domain kmp :core:analytics :core:data kmp :core:network kmp
build-logic

Convention plugins. One place for every module’s compiler flags, lint gates and test setup.

DetektktlintLeakCanaryJUnitMockitoRobolectricGitHub Actions
:app

Assembly only. Wires the DI graph and hosts navigation. No business logic lives here.

HiltKoinGradle KTS
:feature:auth

Screens, state and events. Talks to the domain layer, never to data directly.

Jetpack ComposeMVIMVVM
:feature:media

Playback surface, session handling and transcoding, isolated from the rest of the app.

Media3ExoPlayerFFmpegJetpack Compose
:feature:billing

Paywall, entitlements and restore flow behind a single contract.

Google Play BillingRevenueCatMVI
:core:ui

The atomic design system: tokens, components and motion, shared by every feature.

Jetpack ComposeMaterial 3 ExpressiveAtomic design
:core:domain

Pure Kotlin, not one Android import. Depends on nothing, so it compiles for iOS untouched.

Kotlin MultiplatformCoroutinesFlowkotlinx.datetime
:core:analytics

One funnel for product events, crashes and real-user monitoring.

Datadog RUMFirebase AnalyticsCrashlytics
:core:data

Implements the contracts the domain declares. Owns persistence and mapping.

Kotlin MultiplatformRoomDataStorekotlinx.serializationFlow
:core:network

HTTP, serialization and error mapping, with the engine swapped per platform.

Kotlin MultiplatformKtor Clientkotlinx.serializationOkHttp

Story

I code to create. Not for the code itself, but for what it becomes: solutions I'm proud of, that quietly change someone's ordinary day. That sense of completeness feels almost divine. Gabriel Tekombo.

What I do

Platform engineering, app modernization, greenfield products. I replace legacy stacks with Compose and Clean Architecture, design modular codebases, and build the CI/CD and tooling that let teams ship faster. Kotlin-first across the board: native Android today, iOS via Kotlin Multiplatform when sharing the core multiplies the impact.

How I work

Product-minded and metric-driven. I care about crash-free rates, build times and time-to-feature as much as elegant code. Remote-first since 2020, fluent in French and English.

Beyond the IDE

Off the clock

  • readPsychology
  • readScience
  • readTech
  • playSolo adventures on PS5
  • shootFujifilm X-M5 ↗
  • a bit ofAnime
  • a bit ofMMA
  • always onMusic
  • love toTravel
  • playPortable consoles
  • playRetro gaming
  • eatGrilled meat
  • goHiking
  • loveCreating stuff
  • watchFootball

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