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Ezekiel Wamala, BS, MEng

Senior Tech Editor (Productivity & Notes)

12 years in software engineering and tech editorial

About Ezekiel Wamala

Ezekiel Wamala is the senior tech editor at whichapp.report and the writer behind most of the publication’s productivity, note-taking, and AI-assistant decision trees. His thesis is that the consumer-app review category overweights features and underweights what he calls “use-case fit” — the question of whether the app’s underlying data model maps onto how the user actually thinks. He spent eight years building productivity software, and he writes about it from the inside.

After completing his BS in Software Engineering at Makerere University in Kampala in 2012, Ezekiel moved to Toronto for an MEng in Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He joined Atlassian in 2015 and spent four years on the Confluence engineering team, owning a chunk of the rich-text editor stack. In 2019 he moved to Roam Research and spent two and a half years on the block-graph engine, which gave him an unusually deep understanding of the outliner-vs-document divide that animates so much of the note-app discourse.

He left Roam in late 2024 because he wanted to write about the category instead of build inside it, and joined whichapp.report in September 2025 as the founding senior tech editor. His coverage philosophy is that every productivity-app recommendation should answer the question “what mental model does this app assume the user has?” rather than “what features does this app ship?”

Credentials in detail

Editorial focus

Ezekiel writes the productivity, note-app, AI-assistant, and workout decision trees. He owns the question of “which app fits which mental model” across these verticals. He does not accept contract work from any app developer.

Conflicts of interest

Ezekiel holds no equity in any app developer covered on this site. He held a small amount of restricted stock during his Atlassian tenure (2015-2019) which he sold prior to joining the publication. He has no current financial relationship with Atlassian, Roam Research, or any other developer covered here.

Recent Work