Dear Hiring Manager,
A mobile app lives in a pocket on a flaky train connection, not on a fast office network, and I build for that reality. At Tideway Travel I cut our crash free session rate problem at the root and watched our store rating climb from 3.4 to 4.6 over two releases. Shipping apps that feel solid in the real world is what I would bring to your team.
Mobile engineering rewards a particular kind of discipline, because you cannot hotfix a binary the moment it leaves your hands. I plan for offline first behaviour, I watch memory and battery as carefully as I watch features, and I treat the release train and staged rollouts as core tools rather than admin. I am comfortable across the platform specific quirks that separate an app that passes review from one that delights.
At Tideway Travel I led the offline rewrite of our journey planner so it kept working through tunnels and dead spots. By moving to a local first data layer with background sync, I lifted the crash free session rate from 97.1 percent to 99.8 percent and cut cold start time by 35 percent. The release pushed our average store rating to 4.6 and halved support tickets about lost data.
I saw that you are expanding the app into new markets, which brings interesting questions around localisation, low end devices and store compliance. I would enjoy talking through how I would prepare the codebase for that. Could we arrange a brief conversation?
Yours sincerely, Lewis Adeyemi