— Portfolio · 2026 — Manas Luthra
Scaled Apptile's Live Selling vertical to $1M+ ARR from zero as the solo founding engineer. Now Head of Engineering at Tile.dev, leading 12 engineers plus a 4-person R&D pod.
Leading the technical roadmap and rebrand of Tile.dev — the next-generation platform Apptile is transitioning into. Managing 12 engineers day-to-day, plus a dedicated 4-person R&D team on next-gen platform work. Partnering with enterprise clients to translate complex requirements into shippable systems.
- 99.9% uptime maintained through the entire rebrand
- Leading a 12-eng org + 4-person R&D team
- Primary technical POC across backend, infra, frontend
Owned the full stack end-to-end — real-time video, streaming engine, cart and checkout, moderation, host tooling, analytics. First revenue-bearing vertical of its kind in Apptile's catalogue. Now a team runs it in production while I continue to lead strategy and take enterprise customer calls.
- $1M+ ARR, scaled from zero
- Solo build — architecture, backend, mobile, infra
- First real-time commerce product in Apptile's catalogue
Engineered the "Tiles" framework — a modular UI system for mobile apps. Reduced end-to-end development cycles by 70% for over 250 brands. Owned the tile workflow end-to-end: the tools designers use, the runtime that renders them, the variants engine, and the platform stability layer around it.
- 70% shorter development cycles
- 250+ brands shipping on Tiles
- Multi-tenant analytics pipeline handling millions of real-time events
A quick intro.
Founding engineer turned engineering leader. Seven years shipping product across web, mobile, and systems — through research labs, freelance scale, contract gigs, and now platform-scale leadership.
At Apptile I engineered the Tiles framework (70% shorter dev cycles, 250+ apps), architected the multi-tenant analytics pipeline, and single-handedly scaled the Live Selling vertical from zero to $1M+ ARR. In July 2025 I moved into the Head of Engineering role at Tile.dev, where I lead 12 engineers plus a 4-person R&D pod rebuilding how mobile apps are built and deployed.
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