Mobile engineer building one codebase for Android, iOS, and desktop.

About

I'm Asqar — a mobile engineer based in the Netherlands with 15+ years building apps across Android, iOS, and the web. These days I focus on Kotlin Multiplatform: shipping a single codebase to Android, iOS, and desktop. Having spent years writing both native Android and native iOS, I'm at home helping teams bring the two onto a shared KMP foundation. I like privacy-respecting software, lean dependencies, and owning a project end to end.

I've been building software professionally for over fifteen years, most of it in mobile. I started in native iOS (Objective-C, then Swift) and Android, shipped apps for clients ranging from public-sector services to large enterprises, and led small teams along the way — including a stint as CTO.

My focus now is Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform. Outside mobile I've worked across the web (TypeScript / Vue) and on the backend, with years in the .NET world before that — enough breadth to be comfortable owning a feature from the database to the screen.

I think KMP is where cross-platform development is heading, and the problems I find most interesting are the ones where deep native experience and a shared codebase meet: consolidating two native apps into one without losing what made each platform good.