Open to TPM, EM, Product, and contract roles
Manasa Timalapura.

Mobile engineer who learned to think like a product owner.

Twelve years shipping mobile products across native Android, Flutter, React Native, and full-stack Node. Lately, building Nookly solo, from architecture to production, and finding my skills extend well beyond code into product thinking and end-to-end delivery.

location Bengaluru, IN
currently Founder, Nookly
status available, May 2026
stack android, flutter, rn, node
contact manasatimalapura@gmail.com
the short version

I started in native Android and grew into Flutter, React Native, and backend systems. Somewhere along the way I noticed what energizes me beyond shipping features: understanding users, defining the right problems, and making the trade-offs nobody else wants to make.

So I built a product alone to test the theory. Engineering, QA, release management, vendor evals, every hat. It worked. I want to do this with a team next.

a note from Manasa Timalapura, May 2026

what i'm building now
founder & product lead, live

Nookly.

A relationship-focused social app for the 30 to 50 demographic in India, built end to end, solo.

Conceived, built, and launched Nookly, owning every hat from product vision and user research to architecture, implementation, QA, release management, and post-launch iteration.

Defined the roadmap, scoped MVP flows, made every trade-off between user experience, safety, scalability and what one person could realistically ship.

flutter node.js express mongodb socket.io gcp
Play Store
Nookly app discover screen showing potential connections
selected work, before nookly

A decade of shipping, across every kind of stakeholder.

what i bring

Less about technologies, more about how I move.

01

End-to-end ownership

Idea to production. Vision, scoping, build, ship, measure, iterate. I've done every step alone, so I know what each step actually costs.

02

Product thinking with real technical depth

I can sit in a roadmap meeting and a code review on the same day. The trade-offs make more sense when you understand both rooms.

03

Comfortable in ambiguity

Most of my career has been early-stage. Constraints, half-defined problems, missing inputs. That's the default operating environment.

04

Cross-functional by default

Engineering, design, business, ops. Translating cleanly between them is most of the job, and I enjoy that part.

what i lead on

The competencies behind the work.

product & delivery

MVP scoping, roadmap planning, release management

mvp scopingroadmap planningrelease managementprioritisation under constraintstrade-off analysis

Scoped and shipped the full Nookly MVP solo: every roadmap call, every cut, every release decision. Managed Play Store releases at Synup and Colearn from RC build to production rollout.

process & methodology

Agile, Scrum, and choosing what fits the team

agilescrumsprint planningretrospectiveskanbantdd-driven delivery

Practiced Scrum across enterprise and startup contexts. Drove TDD-based no-QA delivery at Colearn. Comfortable defining ceremonies that match team maturity, not dogma.

people & stakeholders

Communication across engineering, design, business

stakeholder communicationconflict resolutionpeople managementcross-functional collaborationmentorship

Led a team of 3 at Divum: code reviews, mentorship, conflict navigation. At Synup, scoped product features alongside PMs in a fast-moving B2B environment. Comfortable translating between rooms.

technical leadership

Architecture, code review, vendor & tool evaluation

architecture decisionscode reviewtechnical mentorshipvendor evaluationperformance instrumentation

Owned full-stack architecture for Nookly. Built reusable framework modules at Neuu Labs and Widas adopted across products. Comfortable making and defending technical calls.

the full timeline

From gaming to healthtech to edtech to social. The same skillset, sharpened across domains.

2025 to present
Founder & Product Lead
Nookly

Building a consumer mobile app end-to-end. Product vision, MVP design, full-stack Flutter + Node implementation, release management, user feedback loops.

2021 to 2023
Android Lead Engineer
IQ Edu (Colearn), Abu Dhabi, UAE

Edtech for Indonesian students. Live classes, automated doubt solver, Zoom SDK integration. TDD-driven no-QA delivery model.

2019 to 2021
Senior Android Developer
Synup Digital, Bangalore

Built the Synup Android app from scratch for enterprise brand-visibility customers. Solo delivery from design through Play Store, scoping alongside PMs.

2018 to 2019
Senior Android Developer
Neuu Labs, Bangalore

Vending-machine kiosk apps. Crashed-to-zero legacy clean-up, payment integration, performance instrumentation, reusable base framework.

2017 to 2018
Senior Android Developer
Widas Concepts, Bangalore

Medical IoT (3nethra Specto) and school-bus tracking (MyBusTracker). MVP architecture, BLE + classic Bluetooth, reusable library modules.

2016
Senior Application Developer
Divum Corporate Services, Bangalore

Led a team of 3 across Lakmé Makeup Pro (real-time AR) and Pravachan (offline-encrypted streaming). Code review, mentorship, profiling.

2011 to 2015
Android Developer
Demansol & Tech Active, Bangalore

First-decade range: wearables (baby kick counter), 2D physics games, REST-driven utility apps for UK transport and banking clients. Started here.

what i'm open to

Three doors. Walk through any one.

primary interest

Full-time
TPM, EM or Product

Especially with teams building consumer or platform products where thoughtful prioritisation and execution matter. Open to senior IC roles where engineering and product overlap.

also open to

Contract & interim work

End-to-end mobile and full-stack projects. Discovery, scoping, delivery. Bring me in for the stretch where ownership matters most.

always open to

A good conversation

Collaborations, advisory chats, product critiques, or just comparing notes with other founders and operators. Reach out, no agenda needed.

let's talk

Tell me what you're trying to build.

Hiring, collaborating, or just curious? The inbox is open. I usually reply within a day.

manasatimalapura@gmail.com ↗ linkedin ↗ download cv ↗