Question 1

Who is Arun Jalota?

Accepted Answer

Arun Jalota is a Technical Director in Toronto with 13+ years across consumer mobile, gaming, and applied AI. He currently leads a 12-engineer cross-functional team at a Toronto consumer mobile company, shipping iOS, Android, React Native, and Unity-based products. The last year has focused on team-wide adoption of AI engineering tooling — Claude Code, Cursor, eval harnesses, and structured-output guardrails as default workflows.

Question 2

What does Arun Jalota work on?

Accepted Answer

Arun currently leads a 12-engineer cross-functional team across iOS, Android, React Native, and Unity at a Toronto consumer mobile company. The last year has focused on team-wide AI tooling adoption — Claude Code, Cursor, eval harnesses, and structured-output guardrails as default engineering workflows.

Question 3

What is Arun Jalota's tech stack?

Accepted Answer

Arun's team works across iOS (Swift, Objective-C), Android (Kotlin, Java), React Native, Unity/C#, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, AWS, Firebase, Docker, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI APIs, eval harnesses, and structured output schemas. Plus the standard React / Postgres / Redis stack on the web side.

Question 4

How can I contact Arun Jalota?

Accepted Answer

Email arun@arunjalota.com, or connect via LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/arunjalota) and GitHub (github.com/arunjalota).

Question 5

What is Arun Jalota known for?

Accepted Answer

Arun Jalota is known for engineering leadership in consumer mobile and applied AI — leading cross-functional teams across iOS, Android, React Native, and Unity, and for driving team-wide adoption of AI engineering tooling including Claude Code, Cursor, and eval harnesses.

Question 6

How large a team has Arun Jalota led?

Accepted Answer

Arun Jalota currently leads a 12-engineer cross-functional team at a Toronto consumer mobile company, shipping iOS, Android, React Native, and Unity-based products on a 24-month shipping cadence.

Question 7

How many years of experience does Arun Jalota have?

Accepted Answer

Arun Jalota has 13+ years building software — Software Engineer (2012–2016), Technical Lead / Gameplay Programmer (2016–2021), and now Technical Director at a Toronto consumer mobile company. He has led teams of up to 12 engineers and shipped products across iOS, Android, React Native, Unity, and the web.

Question 8

How does Arun Jalota approach AI tooling for engineering teams?

Accepted Answer

Arun drove team-wide adoption of AI engineering tooling at his current company — rolling out Claude Code, Cursor, eval harnesses, and structured-output guardrails as default workflows across a 12-engineer team. The focus was on making AI tooling a first-class part of the engineering process rather than an individual productivity hack.

Question 9

What does Arun Jalota write about?

Accepted Answer

Arun Jalota writes engineering-voice essays on applied AI and software delivery: what AI tooling adoption actually looks like across a 12-engineer mobile team, why edge cases decide whether people trust your product, and designing AI features that fail soft instead of hard-failing. The essays are at arunjalota.com under Writing.

Question 10

How does Arun Jalota choose which technologies to use?

Accepted Answer

Arun Jalota favors proven, well-documented, recoverable technology — Postgres, Node, plain deployments — where edge cases are already solved problems. He focuses technology novelty on the product's actual differentiation (applied AI and mobile experiences) and keeps the infrastructure layer dull on purpose. A team of 12 can't afford to be on-call for six exotic dependencies.

Question 11

How does Arun Jalota approach engineering leadership?

Accepted Answer

Arun Jalota believes a leader's output is other people's output. He sets the technical bar, builds the team that clears it, and stays hands-on in the codebase. He drives team-wide standards on code quality, AI tooling adoption, and delivery cadence — while removing blockers so engineers can do their best work.

Question 12

What is Arun Jalota's job title?

Accepted Answer

Arun Jalota is a Technical Director at a Toronto consumer mobile company, where he leads a 12-engineer cross-functional team across iOS, Android, React Native, Unity, and cloud services. He progressed from Software Engineer (2012–2016) to Technical Lead / Gameplay Programmer (2016–2021) to Technical Director (2021–present).

Question 13

How does Arun Jalota know whether a product is working?

Accepted Answer

Arun Jalota tracks whether people come back — return and retention — because that single behavior tells him the product earned its place. Signups, traffic, and likes are noise that feels like progress. As a Technical Director, the metric he watches for team health is measurably faster delivery with no uptick in defect rate.