Rubin Basha.dev

STUTTGART · SOFTWARE · BUSINESS · FRUIT TREES

Hi, I am Rubin.

Developer since 2013. Businessman since 2025.

Software engineer, co-founder and Geschäftsführer of BasalBit. I write here about building software, running a small company and finances.

Rubin Basha
that is me

I have been building software for more than 13 years. Most of them in mobile: Android first, then Flutter, and for the last years as Head of Mobile, leading the teams that ship the apps.

In 2025 my co-founder Eraldo and I started BasalBit, a software company in Stuttgart. We build custom software, mobile apps and the systems behind them. Our team has shipped apps for:

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My approach to business is simple but demanding. Focus on fair deals. I look for real win-win situations, where the value created clearly exceeds the effort and cost to produce it.

Away from the screen I am a father. I like gardening, walking in nature and biking.

I like gardening, and fruit trees most of all. Beauty and utility in one living thing. I think good software should be the same.

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Fresh from the garden

Each tree is a topic. The more I write about it, the more it grows. Pick a tree to see its notes.

From my notebook

All topics · 25 notes · Seedling is a fresh thought, Evergreen means I stand behind it

Products · 6 minReRune: text changes without another app releaseThe person who notices a wrong text in an app is often not the person who can change and release it. We built ReRune to shorten that path. Finances · 1 minFinancial awareness: the AltersvorsorgedepotOne should be financially aware. A state-backed retirement account for people living in Germany launches in 2027, and the details matter. Engineering · 2 minTrust is a featureSoftware used to be something I could mostly trust to behave predictably. AI changes that relationship. Engineering · 2 minLanguage is a medium that shapes thinkingI speak English, Albanian, German, Italian and a bit of French. I also speak Java, Kotlin, Dart, TypeScript and Go. Craft · 3 minAI is giving developers power toolsA drill does not make someone a carpenter. And AI does not make someone a software engineer. Finances · 3 minThe real price of AIPart 2 of my rant about AI costs. What I do not see in my own work is an 8 to 10 times increase in intelligence.

What we grow at BasalBit

BasalBitCustom software, mobile apps and the backends behind them.ReRuneOwn your product copy.FakturanoTime, clients and German invoices in one place.

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The road so far

rubin / career · branch main

  1. a1c0de · MSc

    init: Informatics, University of Tirana

    Faculty of Sciences.

  2. 3f2b81 · 2013

    feat: start as Android developer

    ENG Group, and freelance work.

  3. 7e91d4 · 2015

    feat: lead Android at UMWERK

  4. c04a2f · 2015 – 2023

    refactor: Android → Flutter

    Lead Android, later Lead Flutter, at UMWERK.

  5. 9b5e10 · 2023

    feat: Head of Mobile at UMWERK

    Leading the teams that ship the apps.

  6. f00d25 · 2025business

    feat!: co-found BasalBit GmbH with Eraldo

    BREAKING CHANGE: the developer now also runs a company. Geschäftsführer, Stuttgart.

    Rubin and Eraldo at Google I/O Connect
    with Eraldo at Google I/O Connect

  7. e1a7c3 · BasalBit

    feat: ReRune: own your product copy

  8. b16b00 · BasalBit

    feat: Fakturano: time, clients and German invoices

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Off the screen

Father
Gardening
Walking in nature
Biking

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If you are building something

A new app, a prototype that needs to become a real product, or a team that needs senior hands. Tell me the problem. I will tell you honestly whether we are a fit.

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Rubin