![LOi company logo]() December 2020 – May 2023 · Uruguay # Mobile Development Chief at LOi As Head of Mobile Development at LOi, I led the mobile engineering division while serving as a principal contributor on the React Native codebase. Defined the architectural patterns, integration strategies, and performance optimization standards for the company's cross-platform mobile applications. Conducted continuous technical research to identify and evaluate emerging mobile technologies, frameworks, and platform-specific capabilities for production adoption. ## Duties & Responsibilities Core duties held during this position. - Architect reusable component libraries and shared packages, define API contracts, versioning strategies, tree-shaking compatibility, and cross-project dependency management - Ship user-facing features end-to-end, from component architecture and state management (React, Redux, Zustand) through API integration to production deployment and monitoring - Solve complex UX problems through systematic decomposition, reduce cognitive load, eliminate unnecessary states, and design progressive disclosure patterns for power users - Architect and ship native mobile applications (iOS/Android), define navigation patterns, offline-first strategies, push notification systems, and app store optimization - Coordinate cross-functional feature delivery, align engineering, design, QA, and product on scope, technical approach, and acceptance criteria from discovery through release - Lead mobile engineering teams, define native/hybrid architecture decisions (React Native, Swift, Kotlin), establish release cadences, and drive platform-specific quality standards - Identify technology inflection points, evaluate AI breakthroughs, platform shifts, and user behavior changes that create strategic opportunities or existential risks - Integrate third-party APIs and external data sources, design resilient integration layers with retry logic, circuit breakers, rate limit handling, and response caching - Triage and resolve production defects, prioritize by user impact and blast radius, implement fixes with regression tests, and conduct post-mortems on critical incidents - Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, AI/ML frameworks, new runtime environments, build tools, and developer productivity platforms through structured PoC processes ## Key Contributions & Achievements Initiatives I personally led, co-led, or was directly accountable for. - Engineered the LOi mobile application from the ground up using React Native, implementing a shared codebase architecture for iOS and Android with native module bridging where performance-critical - Achieved top-3 ranking in the App Store's most downloaded category for three consecutive weeks post-launch, demonstrating market-product fit validation - Achieved top-3 ranking in Google Play's most downloaded category for three consecutive weeks, confirming cross-platform market traction - Orchestrated the end-to-end publication and distribution pipeline across Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and ancillary marketplaces - Developed a purpose-built Huawei AppGallery InstaApp variant, adapting the platform to Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) ecosystem constraints and APIs ## Skills Stack Competencies applied during this role. - ### Front End Engineering 21 years of experience - ### Art Direction for Websites and Apps 22 years of experience - ### Cross Platform Mobile App Development 3 years of experience - ### Innovation Research & Application 8 years of experience - ### Design Thinking 6 years of experience [Back to Work Experience]()