Himanshu Mathpal

Experience

1. Sep 2026 — present

   Lead Developer · YallaMashoor.com

   • Lead development of YallaMashoor, a community launch board for MENA founders and a side product of Basha Technology Solutions LLC, Kumba.ai's parent company.
   • Built the launch board, Toast / Meh / Roast reactions and a transparent ranking score where paying publishes a listing but never buys a higher rank.
   • Shipped on Vinext (Next.js on Vite) on Cloudflare Workers with D1, Clerk sign-in and Stripe; 50+ MENA startups paid $1 to publish ahead of the official launch.

   VinextCloudflare WorkersCloudflare D1ClerkStripe

2. Jan 2025 — present

   Team Lead · Kumba.ai

   • Kumba.ai was valued at $10M on The Falcons of Majlis with funding from 2 Falcons, won the IMAGES Retail TechNXT Award in 2026, and partners with brands including Dabur, Bajaj, DigiYatra, Soch and Glassbox.
   • Lead a cross-functional team of 8 developers across backend, UX and more, owning frontend development end to end while contributing to backend architecture, cloud infrastructure and debugging.
   • Building Kumba.ai, an AI marketing platform with smart image and video tools, multi-platform social posting and scheduling, and an AI copilot that plans a 15-day campaign in a few steps, powered by Kling, Gemini, Seedance and Omni.
   • Built Kumba.ai's integrations beyond its own app: a Canva integration, a plugin for the Shopline e-commerce platform, and white-labeled versions of the product rebranded per client.
   • Own go-to-market across Google AdSense and Meta Ads to drive user acquisition and measure campaign performance.
   • Set up the web deployment pipeline on Cloudflare, integrated Mixpanel, Microsoft Clarity and Sentry on AWS, and am now building the Kumba.ai mobile app for Android and iOS.

   Next.jsReactFlutterAWSGCPCloudflareMixpanelSentry

3. Oct 2023 — Dec 2024

   Software Developer · NewsTok.ai

   • Built NewsTok, a multilingual news aggregator for Android and iOS in Flutter, and grew it to 50,000+ combined downloads on the Play Store and App Store.
   • Built the website in Flutter Web, then migrated it to Astro JS on Cloudflare for better SEO and performance, with Google Ads for monetization.
   • Integrated Dynamic Links, Firebase Cloud Messaging, AdMob and AppLovin to drive engagement and revenue.
   • Shipped in-app podcast and YouTube Shorts playback, expanding content formats and engagement.
   • Set up and maintained a Codemagic CI/CD pipeline for simultaneous Android and iOS releases.

   FlutterDartFirebaseAstro JSCloudflareCodemagic

Selected projects

• AI SaaS · Jan 2025 – present

  Kumba.ai

  An AI marketing platform: image and video tools, multi-platform posting and scheduling, and a copilot that plans a 15-day campaign in a few steps.

  $10M valuation on The Falcons of Majlis

  Case study Live site

• Open Source · 2026

  Image Ultra

  A free, fully typed image editor for React and Next.js: crop, adjust, filter, annotate, redact and export, with every edit saved as JSON.

  300+ npm downloads in the first week

  Case study Live site

• Web App · Sep 2026 – present

  YallaMashoor.com

  A community launch board for the MENA region: founders launch products, the community reacts, and a transparent score ranks them, with no pay-to-play. Launching soon.

  MENA launch board built for founders in the region

  Case study Live site

• Mobile App · Oct 2023 – Dec 2024

  NewsTok.ai

  A multilingual news aggregator for Android and iOS, with podcasts and YouTube Shorts in-app and an Astro website built for SEO.

  50,000+ downloads

  Case study Live site

What I bring

• Leadership

  I lead a cross-functional team of 8 developers at Kumba.ai across backend, UX and more.

• End-to-end ownership

  I own frontend development end to end and also work on backend architecture, cloud infrastructure and debugging.

• Product and growth

  I set up analytics (Mixpanel, Clarity), error monitoring (Sentry) and go-to-market with AdSense and Meta Ads, so what we ship gets measured and found.

What colleagues say

• “I've worked with Himanshu twice, first at NewsTok.ai and then at Kumba.ai, and both times he made the work feel lighter. He looked after the app and the frontend while I handled the backend, and everything just fit together. He thinks about the whole product, keeps everyone in the loop and always delivers. I'd happily work with him again.”

  Amit Chaudhary(LinkedIn)Software Engineer at CivicDataLab, ex-NewsTok.ai & Kumba.ai

• “Himanshu was my lead at Kumba.ai and one of the best people I've worked with. He kept our frontend clean even when we were moving fast, took the time to explain the why behind every review, and never made me feel bad for asking questions. A lot of how I write React and Next.js today comes from him.”

  Vivek Jha(LinkedIn)Frontend Developer at DKC Exports, ex-Kumba.ai

• “As a designer, working with Himanshu is a treat. He cares about the small details as much as I do, builds what's on the screen faithfully, and speaks up when something won't feel right for users, usually with a better idea in hand. Handing a design to him never feels like letting it go.”

  Tarun Dixit(LinkedIn)Product Designer, Kumba.ai

Skills

Mobile

FlutterDartFirebase / FirestorePush notificationsDynamic LinksCodemagic CI/CD

Frontend

ReactNext.jsVinextAstro JSTailwind CSSHTML

Cloud & backend

AWSCloudflareGCPVercelBackend architecture

Growth & analytics

MixpanelGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag ManagerMicrosoft ClaritySentryGoogle AdSense & Meta Ads

Integrations

Canva integrationShopline pluginWhite-labeling

Leadership

Team leadership & mentoring