Drew Carlson
Founder & Principal Engineer
Built and scaled mobile products for startups and financial institutions. Expert in native and Kotlin Multiplatform development.
- Android/iOS
- Kotlin Multiplatform
- SwiftUI/Compose
- AI Workflows
About us
Built by engineers who’ve lived it.
New Path exists because we’ve seen how hard — and how worthwhile — moving to native can be. We’ve done it from the inside, and now we help others do it well.
Our story
A new path, not a detour.
Our engineers have spent years building and maintaining native mobile apps at large scale — from the first design and prototype through productionization, platform teams, and the CI/CD and build infrastructure that keeps it all moving.
Along the way we watched many teams hit the ceiling of their cross-platform stack: performance they couldn’t tune, platform features they couldn’t reach, and upgrades that took longer every year. The move to native was clearly right, but the path there was anything but clear.
New Path was founded to make that path clear. We plan the transition, prepare the team, and execute it alongside you — by hand, or with AI workflows built on the same hard-won experience.
What we believe
Principles we work by
Honest over easy
If a full migration isn’t right for you, we’ll say so. Sometimes the best path is partial, phased, or not yet.
Incremental by default
Big-bang rewrites are where migrations go to die. We keep your app live and improving at every step.
Your team, stronger
We measure success by what your engineers can do after we leave, not how long we stay.
Quality is non-negotiable
Whether by hand or AI-assisted, every change meets the bar we’d hold for our own production apps.
Experience
Where we’ve spent our careers
Deep, hands-on experience across the whole native mobile lifecycle.
- Native iOS & Android at large scale
- Design, prototyping & productionization
- Mobile platform & architecture teams
- CI/CD & build infrastructure
- Kotlin Multiplatform in production
- Developer tooling & AI workflows
Team
The people you’ll work with
Let’s talk about your app.
Tell us where your app is today and where you want it to be. We'll come back with an honest take on the options — no obligation.