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Hannah Gilino

Product engineer & founder

Hannah Gilino

8+ years building software. Two apps I designed, built and launched myself. Now I help founders do the same.

Work with meHiring? See my resume
  • Founder of Luna Focus & Pink Moon
  • Software engineer by background
  • Web, iOS & Android

About

I started out as a software engineer, with a B.S. in Software Engineering. Over 8+ years I’ve built everything from 3-D simulation software used by scientists worldwide to mobile and web apps for client product teams. These days I work as a product engineer and founder of two apps I designed, built and grew myself: Luna Focus, a lunar guided goal-setting and self-reflection app, and Pink Moon, an end-to-end encrypted period, pregnancy and menopause tracker.

I started Luna Focus on nights and weekends in 2021 and went full time on it in 2024. Running my own products taught me everything a feature touches after the code is written: onboarding, paywalls, ads, App Store review, privacy law, and real users telling me what they need. What I care about most is protecting women’s health data and helping creators bring their ideas to life.

When I launched my first bootstrapped app, I wished I’d had someone beside me who’d done it before. Now I get to be that person, whether I’m on your team or helping you launch.

Off-screen, I’m hiking Pacific Northwest trails with my husband, on my yoga mat, checking what the moon and stars are up to, or reading - usually fantasy or self-improvement depending on the week.

Years building software
8+
Apps founded & shipped
2
Based in
Portland, OR · Remote
Hannah Gilino at dusk on a forested hilltop, with a snow-capped mountain and a full moon in a pink sky behind her

Selected work

Two apps I took from idea to the App Store & Google Play

Both are products I designed, built, launched and grew myself: what each set out to solve, the decisions behind them, and what happened after launch.

  • Live on iOS & Android since 2022

    Luna Focus

    Organize your life with the moon

    A lunar guided goal-setting and self-reflection app with moon inspired journaling, intentions, habits, vision boards and audio meditations, organized around the 29.5-day lunar cycle. Helping users gain clarity and follow through on their life goals.

    • 11.5K+ signups
    • 4.8★ from 127 ratings

    As featured in Bold Journey

  • Live on iOS & Android (US & Canada)

    Pink Moon

    Private by design. Encrypted lunar cycle tracking.

    A period, pregnancy and menopause tracker that encrypts your health data on your phone before it’s ever backed up. Only you hold the key, so not even we can read it or hand it over. Six modes support you from your cycle through pregnancy, postpartum and menopause. Synced with the moon.

    • End-to-end encrypted
    • Cloud backup
    • No third-party analytics

Work with me

From idea to launch, with someone beside you

Whether you’re starting from a sketch, a half-built prototype, or an app you made with tools like Cursor or Claude, I’ll help you get it into people’s hands. I’ve taken my own products through every step - the first version, App Store review, and the websites behind them. I’ll work through yours with you, hands-on in the code. Already live? I can help you revamp it or launch what’s next.

Launch partner

Founders at any stage, including non-technical founders. Maybe you have an idea and don’t know where to start, an app that’s half built, or one that works on your laptop but isn’t in people’s hands yet. I especially love working with female founders and anyone building in wellness and women’s health.

A product engineer beside you from “where do I start?” to “it’s live.” We shape the first version together, build or fix what’s needed, and get it live: on the web, in the App Store, Google Play, or all three.

How it worksFixed-scope packages, starting with a launch check-up

  • Shaping your idea: what to build first, and what can wait
  • Design and build alongside you, or picking up where your AI tools left off
  • A launch check-up: a review of your app, launch readiness and plan, with a prioritized fix list
  • Hands-on fixes: debugging, crash fixes, payments, privacy disclosures
  • Going live: deploying your web app on your own domain, or App Store and Google Play submission (including Google’s closed-testing requirement)
  • A simple launch plan: landing page or store listing, screenshots and your first users
  • Revamps and new features for apps that are already live, rolled out smoothly to your existing users
Talk about your launch

Have a different project in mind? Tell me about it.

Open to roles

For hiring teams

I love making things people use: digging into a problem, designing the experience and building it until it feels right. I’m open to remote roles where product thinking, design and engineering overlap. If your team is building something you’re excited about, I’d love to hear about it.

Target roles (remote)

  • Product Engineer
  • Design Engineer
  • Front-end Engineer
  • Mobile Engineer

Highlights

  • Built the new version of a fleet-payments app from scratch in Flutter as one of its first three engineers, now 4.6★ across 23K+ ratings.
  • Designed, built and grew a 4.8★ subscription app solo over 5+ years, from Flutter code to onboarding, paywalls and ads, to 11.5K+ signups and revenue that covers its own ad spend for continual growth.
  • Designed and shipped an end-to-end encrypted period and pregnancy tracker with cloud backup (AES-256-GCM, Argon2id key hierarchy), giving women a way to track their cycles privately - not even the company can read or hand over their health data.

Skills & stack

Front end & web
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Tailwind
  • Accessible and responsive UI
  • Component libraries
  • Unit testing
Mobile
  • Flutter/Dart
  • iOS & Android releases
  • RevenueCat subscriptions
  • Push & local notifications
Back end & infrastructure
  • Firebase (Firestore, Cloud Functions, Auth, Hosting)
  • REST APIs
  • Cloudflare
  • Microsoft Azure
  • CI/CD
  • End-to-end encryption (AES-256-GCM, Argon2id)
  • Health-data handling
Product & design
  • Funnel analytics
  • Onboarding & paywall optimization
  • A/B testing
  • User interviews
  • Prototyping
  • Figma

I pick up new tools quickly. I’ve shipped production work in React, Flutter, C# and C++, and I’m happy to learn whatever your stack uses.

Get in touch

Hiring, launching an app, or building something you’re excited about? Tell me about it!