Summary
Fuad Kamal is a principal software architect with over two decades of experience designing and rebuilding native mobile platforms, specializing in health and fitness apps that retain users through better strategy, UX, and AI-enabled features. He partners with founders and product leaders to align tech stack and architecture decisions before code is written, drawing on a track record of award-winning consumer apps, wearables and sensor-data systems used by millions. Fuad has led major modernizations—from migrating enterprise Java and Xamarin codebases to idiomatic Kotlin and Swift with Compose and MVI—to revive app ratings and reduce crashes at companies like Octo Telematics, iFit, and T. Rowe Price. An author and educator, he wrote The Kotlin Book, mentors mobile developers, and teaches mobile design and development, translating deep platform knowledge into practical training. Unusually for a principal architect, he also supplies event and portrait photography for the mobile community, combining technical leadership with creative visual storytelling. Based in Highland, Maryland, he focuses on helping health tech teams get strategy and onboarding right so products stick.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Molecular Biology, Masters, Molecular Biology at Chicago State University
BS, Microbiology, BS, Microbiology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Urdu, Arabic