Top 5 App Store, 1M+ downloads
- Mobile companion app launched at the height of the Pokémon Go wave
- iOS and Android release pipelines and store rollouts
Work
What our founder built before Nakhoda
Nakhoda opened in 2026, so it has no case study of its own yet. Below is the work of its founder, Antonin Ribeaud, with the company and his role for each entry.
Before Nakhoda
Carsharing, rentals and minicabs in one app
- React Native developer on core app features
- Owned the iOS release pipeline: App Store submissions and production rollouts
53M+ songs streamed to 14M+ users in 180+ countries
- Continuously evolved the React and Redux web stack at scale
- Shipped product features on the music-streaming platform
R&D teams search 100M+ pages and get answers with their source
- Built the pipeline that reads, OCRs and indexes the documents, on Google Cloud
Company incorporation cut from weeks to hours
- Malaysia's first fully online company-secretary service: registration, banking and accounting in one place
- Hired and led the engineering team
Campaign managers create a campaign in half the clicks
- Analytics on 400M+ events a month
- Releases without downtime, through automated deployment
Built a document AI product, then sold its IP and code in 2025
- Teams ask their own files a question and get the answer with its source, scanned PDFs and several languages included
Editorial workflow and site performance rebuilt
- Technology lead on a long-running engagement: product, platform and AI
The full record, with case studies written for each project, is on arelion.dev.
What the people he worked with wrote
Of all the developers and engineers I've worked with (125+ and counting over 21 years), I've never met one who could balance such a calm, tolerant personality with the often insane workloads he took on. If you get the chance to work with him, take it.
Where many before him failed, Anton succeeded, bringing about significant improvements in a short span.
He does not just do the job: he digs into the stakes behind every topic and delivers something that actually creates value.
Able to understand the goals of what we are trying to build and make technical decisions that get us closer to those objectives rather than just directly answering the bell. Strategic technical thinkers like this are often hard to find.
All recommendations, unedited, are on LinkedIn.
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