Augusto
From Colombia (UTC-5)
Augusto – Python, React, Node.js
Augusto is a Mobile-first Full-Stack Engineer with around 9 years of React Native experience and strong JavaScript fundamentals. He demonstrates senior-level depth in React Native architecture, CI/CD, and AI-assisted workflows, with middle-level proficiency in React (web) and TypeScript. He has led small teams, owned architectural decisions, and is comfortable with direct client communication. Augusto is best positioned for mobile-focused roles where his practical ownership and adaptability stand out.
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Senior Software Engineer
A fast-growing digital marketing platform for real estate agents, teams, and brokerages, serving 80,000+ professionals through award-winning websites, CRM, AI marketing tools, a home-search portal, and a white-label mobile app. The product ecosystem includes a React Native mobile app, GraphQL data layer, Python ETL pipelines, and an internal AI-agent/MCP platform.
- Set the mobile architecture — state management, screen patterns, and component structure — for the React Native (Expo) app, contributing to a 20% performance gain on slow initial builds and mentoring 2 engineers transitioning from web to mobile;
- Delivered features from 0→1 with design and product — Notes on Boards (used daily) with a rich-text client using react-native-pell-rich-editor (images, Markdown, and links) and the Boards sharing experience at the product core;
- Built an internal MCP gateway on a fork of IBM ContextForge with a team of 5, gating access behind SSO and replacing the third-party Mint MCP server — eliminating vendor costs and per-seat limits;
- Built agent-based pipelines triggered by Datadog alerts during on-call and iterated on how each is handled, cutting alert volume from ~10/day to 2–5 and triage from a week to 2–3 days;
- Built and deployed 5+ new data feeds for Python ETL pipelines on AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and DynamoDB, normalizing third-party API payloads into a standard internal schema;
- Owned test automation: Detox → Maestro → Appium for E2E, Jest + React Native Testing Library for unit testing, and Playwright for web;
- Optimized federated GraphQL queries for 15% better performance and architected the schemas and consumption patterns behind that layer;
- Migrated state from Zustand to XState state machines; managed OTA updates and releases with EAS; profiled and fixed Android render/runtime and Expo memory-leak bottlenecks.
Senior Software Engineer
A gaming technology platform offering free-to-play sports games and daily fantasy sports products for major sports and entertainment partners. Its mobile applications support interactive sports experiences, social features, and fantasy gaming across the presentation, server, event, and storage layers.
- Implemented new game formats and social features across the presentation, server, event, and storage layers of React Native mobile applications;
- Participated in road mapping, daily stand-ups, and ongoing discussions about best practices and design patterns;
- Participated in the design, testing, and evaluation of new products and features for the Free-to-Play Sports and Daily Fantasy Sports divisions;
- Refactored the React client and applied best practices using Redux, React Router DOM, and Hooks;
- Refactored and added new client-side functionality using the factory architecture pattern to provide more granularity.
React Native Developer
A Spanish-language meditation and sleep platform offering 300+ guided meditations focused on mental wellness and better sleep. The product includes a React Native mobile app and a React-based web back office for managing users, subscriptions, and content.
- Delivered features for the 4.9/5-rated app using React Native and Firebase Realtime Database, including a HealthKit integration showing users the effect of meditation on their sleep;
- Built offline mode so users without connectivity could still play meditations, combining two audio libraries to prevent background music from clashing with the guide's voice;
- Migrated React Navigation from v4 to v5, improving performance by ~50% and unlocking newer navigation capabilities;
- Built admin tooling in the React web client — user editing, premium activation/deactivation, and RevenueCat integration — and onboarded new team members to it.
Software Engineer
A white-label telehealth platform supporting clinician workforces for digital-health companies, pharmacies, and labs across all 50 U.S. states. The product includes a patient mobile app, patient–clinician messaging, and web-based administrative and clinical services.
- Forked Rocket Chat React Native and customized it for SteadyMD Chat;
- Used React-Native-Navigation, Redux, Redux Saga, React-Native-Notifications, and Realm for persistence;
- Used the Rocket Chat SDK for making API requests;
- Delivered new features on the admin Sails.js application using MySQL and injected Vue.js on the client side;
- Added new features to a Meteor application on both the client and server sides using MongoDB;
- Created and deployed new CI/CD infrastructure in Jenkins;
- Refactored the Next.js client and improved client-side performance;
- Delivered new features on the Django backend and client side;
- Wired infrastructure using AWS SNS and SQS;
- Mentored junior developers and peers in building enterprise-grade software and establishing QA processes;
- Led development of front-end applications to replace legacy software;
- Managed and outsourced a team of engineers for React Native development to scale the engineering team with company growth.
React Native Developer
A software development agency serving startups and enterprises across Latin America and the US. The work included a shipped NFL mobile app and the foundation of client React Native applications, with a focus on cross-platform development and reusable components.
- Built JavaScript animations for a shipped NFL app as part of a team of 3 using React Native, React, and Webpack;
- Defined the foundation for a client's RN app from an existing design — tool selection, Redux structure, and initial architecture;
- Contributed to a write-once-run-on-web initiative exporting RN components to server-side-rendered web, working through react-native-web limitations.