In products
Gemini multimodal analysis of photos and text, Google Cloud TTS voice output, OpenAI API integrations.
Open to Lead / Principal roles
13 yrs in software
AI-first workflow
Taras Makota AI Mobile Engineer & Tech Lead
Mobile tech lead with 13 years in software and 10 years of React Native. I design, build and ship production apps end to end, from architecture and backend to CI/CD and store releases. Today I focus on AI-powered mobile products: multimodal LLM features inside the app, built with a workflow where agents write, review and test code under my direction.
13 yrssoftware engineering
10 yrsReact Native
10M+installs (Ada Health)
8+apps shipped to stores
AI in my work
LLMs inside the product, agents inside the workflow
I use AI in two ways: as a feature users touch, and as the engine of how I build. I own the architecture and the review.
Feature development
Claude Code and Cursor agents implement features from specs, while I own the architecture and the review.
Code review
An AI review pass on every change before merge, to catch bugs, regressions and style drift.
Tests & QA
AI-generated unit and E2E tests (Detox, Maestro), plus crash and log analysis.
Docs & estimations
AI-drafted specs, setup and release docs, presale estimates and onboarding guides.
The result
Solo delivery of a full product, CarboLens, with the scope and quality you'd usually expect from a small team.
Selected work
Products I've built and shipped
From my own AI products to apps with millions of installs, built for health, smart-TV, fintech and hosting companies.
CarboLens
Own product · 2026 · iOS & Android
An AI calorie and macro tracker: snap your meal and CarboLens names every item, estimates the grams, and adds up calories, protein, carbs and fat in seconds.
- Built solo, end to end: product idea, UX, architecture, backend and the release pipeline.
- Gemini multimodal pipeline that turns a photo plus text into structured nutrition data, run as durable background jobs on Trigger.dev.
- Clerk auth, Postgres with Drizzle, Sentry monitoring, and EAS builds for dev and production.
- Localized into 5 languages: English, Ukrainian, German, Spanish and Polish.
Ad
10M+ installs
Ada, your health guide
An AI-powered symptom checker used worldwide.
- Sole mobile owner of the React Native app: architecture, features, releases.
- Led the app reboot onto a modern RN + TypeScript codebase.
- Moved the symptom assessment from native code to an SDK-based assessment.
Te
100K+ installs
Telly, the smartest TV
A companion app plus an Android TV app for a free, ad-supported dual-screen smart TV.
- Tech Lead / Architect for the mobile and TV apps; led, mentored and hired.
- Android TV app in RN, with AWS IoT pairing between phone and TV.
- Ordering and onboarding with Braze, Zendesk and Google APIs.
o.
100K+ installs
one.com Companion
Website, domain and hosting management for one of Denmark's largest hosting providers.
- Led the team and built the app from scratch: architecture, CI/CD, docs, tests.
- Localization for many EU markets through a Phrase workflow.
IN9
iOS · visionOS
IN9 Lifestyle
A concierge app for a private members' club, with built-in fintech features.
- Built the payments & cards module: card issuing, usage tools, transactions.
- Prepared and published the app to the App Store.
HL
5K+ installs
HLRBO
A marketplace for finding and leasing private hunting land.
- Built the full app from scratch and released it to both stores.
- Maps & geo search over listings, plus booking and payments.
CM
Godot 4
Cyber Monster Hunter
A neon endless runner-shooter. Prototyped in Python, then rebuilt and released in Godot 4.
- Solo design, development and release.
HW
Native Kotlin
Holidays Wallpapers
A native Android app, released and maintained solo.
Google Play ↗Earlier work
Western Digital's NAS app at Luxoft, an HTML5 LiveOps platform inside Unity slot apps at Product Madness, and canvas games built with Phaser, Pixi and Three.js.
Full experience ↓
For companies
Two ways I can help your product
Whether you need one person to build the whole thing, or a lead to take a new product from idea to a working team.
Solo builder
For startups and teams that need a mobile or AI product shipped, without hiring a whole team first.
- End-to-end delivery: UX, architecture, mobile app, backend, CI/CD and store release.
- AI features that work in production: vision, speech and LLM pipelines with structured output, and background jobs.
- An AI-first workflow with agents for code, review, tests and docs, so one engineer delivers the scope of a small team.
- Clean handover: documented setup, release guides and a codebase your future team can own.
Proof: CarboLens, built solo from idea to production. HLRBO, built from scratch and released to both stores.
Tech lead for a new product
For companies starting a new product or rebooting an existing one, who need someone to own the technical side.
- Architecture from day one: stack choice, system design, and quality and release standards.
- Building the team: hiring plan, technical interviews, onboarding, mentoring and code review culture.
- Presale and planning: estimates, technical proposals and roadmaps, discussed directly with stakeholders.
- Bringing AI into the team: agent workflows, AI review and test generation, with guardrails.
Proof: led the Ada app reboot (10M+ installs), architected Telly's mobile and TV apps, and led teams of up to 6 senior engineers.
Discovery & estimate
Goals, scope and risks, including whether the AI part is feasible, turned into a clear plan and estimate.
Architecture & MVP
A blueprint you can review, then a working MVP in your hands early, in short iterations.
Ship to the stores
CI/CD, monitoring, store listings and releases, so users get the app, not just a demo.
Scale or hand over
Grow the team around the product, or hand it over with docs your engineers can run with.
Open to:
Full-time Lead / Principal
Contract
MVP builds
Architecture consulting
Remote · EU / US time zones
Discuss your product
Tech stack
Tools I use to ship
Mobile-first, full-stack TypeScript, with AI built into both the product and the process.
AI & LLM
Gemini APIOpenAI APIMultimodal / VisionText-to-SpeechPrompt engineeringMultilingual promptsLLM features in mobile
AI-assisted development
Claude CodeCursorChatGPTGeminiAI code reviewAI test generationAgent-driven featuresClaude skills & workflows
Mobile
React NativeExpoNew ArchitectureExpo RouterEASiOS · AndroidAndroid TVReanimatedNative modulesiOS Live ActivitiesRevenueCatBiometricsMMKVMaps & GeoKotlinGodot 4
State & UI
ZustandTanStack QueryRedux · SagaNativeWindTailwind · UniwindGluestack UIReact Hook FormZodRecoil
Full-stack
TypeScriptNode.jsNestJSExpressSocket.ioPostgreSQLMongoDBSupabaseFirebase · Cloud FunctionsPythonReact · ViteREST · GraphQLOpenAPIJWT authAWS IoT
DevOps & quality
FastlaneGitHub ActionsGitLab CICircle CITestFlightPlay ConsoleFirebase App DistributionDetoxMaestroJestSentryESLint · BiomeMSWAmplitude
Integrations
BrazeZendeskAuth0ClerkGoogle APIsPhrase (i18n)Payments & cardsKYCIn-app subscriptions
Experience
13 years, from canvas games to AI products
Software Architect / Tech Lead
2021 – nowBrightgrove
React Native lead for US clients (Ada, Telly). Brought AI agents into the team workflow.
Freelance Mobile Engineer
contractHLRBO · IN9
End-to-end React Native delivery.
React Native Team Lead
2020 – 2021TRM Solution
one.com Companion, built from scratch.
Senior Frontend / Team Lead
2018 – 2020Product Madness
HTML5 LiveOps platform inside Unity slot apps.
Senior Frontend / Team Lead
2017 – 2018Avocadotechnology
React Native apps for EU/US clients: Redux-Saga, GraphQL.
RN Developer / Team Lead
2016 – 2017Luxoft
Western Digital NAS app; led 6 senior developers.
HTML5 Game & FE Developer
2013 – 2016Booming Games · Platipus · iLogos · Intellias
Slot engines and canvas games: Phaser, Pixi, Three.js, AngularJS.
Leadership
ArchitectureDesigned mobile apps from scratch for 6+ products.
HiringTechnical interviews and building RN teams.
PresaleEstimates, technical proposals, client discussions.
PeopleMentoring, learning programs, 1:1s and code review standards.
Languages
TypeScript / JavaScriptexpert
Pythonworking
Kotlin · Swift · Javanative modules
GDScript · C#games
Ukrainiannative
EnglishC1
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