Diogo – React, React Native, Node.js

The customer was a secure digital vault that helped households organize, store, and share essential documents, records, and memories with AI-powered classification and enterprise-grade security.

Diogo was responsible for the following:

• joined the company as the third mobile developer, helping with delivering features and fixing bugs on the React Native application;
• started the effort to share more code between the mobile and web teams, which resulted in the creation of a private npm package with shared code used by both apps;
• increased the project’s TypeScript coverage, translating business concepts to descriptive types;
• established navigation patterns to follow mobile UX best practices;
• introduced features folder architecture to match the growth of complexity of the application, making it easier to navigate the project and split new feature tickets.

The service provided a solution to Marketing Agencies and Brands, allowing them to track campaigns, connect them to freelancers, and manage the impact of their investment.

Diogo's main scope of responsibilities included the following:

• developed new features on the web project using Elm/React on the client and Node/F#/ GraphQL on the server;
• helped design and specify new features alongside the designer and product owner;
• worked on project management culture, implementing new processes and adapting Agile methods that made sense for the team.

The app was a ride-sharing mobile app with a different business model. It gave the drivers freedom to set their prices and charge them a fixed fee.

Among others, the contributions were:

• led the effort to adopt Apollo Client as the technology to communicate with different API services and make it the single source of truth inside the application;
• helped improve how the project was managed with suggestions on how to handle new tasks and sprint organization;
• launched the beta version of the app for drivers and riders in Tampa Bay and started improving the app based on feedback and new features;
• worked through defining the patterns and architecture that the Node.js back-end would follow;
• set up CircleCI for automated deployment of the server;
• deployed the first version of the server on Google App Engine;
• worked on continuous improvement of the codebase and porting/adding new features.

This project was the React Native Android version of a pre-existing health and fitness app targeting women's health. The app featured free and paid workout videos and also live workouts that featured a real-time chat with other participants.

Diogo's contributions were:

• developed and launched an Android React Native project from the ground up;
• implemented a React Native bridge of a native Android live streaming SDK;
• translated an iOS app design to Android specific UI.

The project was a smart contacts app that was initially written as a native iOS app and then ported to a React Native app.

Among others, he was tasked with:

• developed a native iOS app that got great feedback from beta testers;
• created a React Native Android and iOS app;
• presented suggestions to improve the back-end API;
• teamed up with the designer and product manager to discuss and decide on new features.