merlin - all in one ai

merlin was already shipping fast when i joined: a flutter app talking to multiple ai backends, growing across ios and android. my job was to push the surface area outward: native android touchpoints, sharper ux, and a second app under the same brand.

android users expected the app to feel native, not just look like a flutter shell. i added home-screen widgets via jetpack glance, app shortcuts, and share-sheet intents so merlin could be invoked from anywhere on the system.

push notifications got rebuilt around action affordances so a tap opens the right thread instead of dumping you on the home screen.

the team was rewriting api calls in every feature. i built a dart client library that wrapped auth, retries, and typed responses, so feature work stopped being plumbing work.

alongside it: http streaming for chat responses and config caching to cut cold-start latency on flaky networks.

i led wallflower end to end as a standalone ai image-gen app powered by flux 1.1 pro and ideogram 2.0. generation flows, prompt ux, gallery, and sharing, soup to nuts.

it shipped on both stores and reused merlin's component vocabulary so the brand felt continuous across products.