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I'm Carlos Portela, a Senior React Native Team Lead with 10+ years of hands-on mobile development experience, delivering high-quality cross-platform apps for enterprises and startups. I specialize in React Native (Expo & CLI), TypeScript, Redux, ES6, iOS (Swift/Objective-C), Android, and modern DevOps practices. I excel at leading distributed engineering teams, owning architecture end-to-end (mobile + backend), rescuing failing projects and rebuilding them successfully, designing offline-first mobile architectures with background sync, mentoring developers, and shipping 4-5+ production React Native apps on iOS & Android.…I'm Carlos Portela, a Senior React Native Team Lead with 10+ years of hands-on mobile development experience, delivering high-quality cross-platform apps for enterprises and startups. I specialize in React Native (Expo & CLI), TypeScript, Redux, ES6, iOS (Swift/Objective-C), Android, and modern DevOps practices. I excel at leading distributed engineering teams, owning architecture end-to-end (mobile + backend), rescuing failing projects and rebuilding them successfully, designing offline-first mobile architectures with background sync, mentoring developers, and shipping 4-5+ production React Native apps on iOS & Android.

Carlos Portela

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I'm Carlos Portela, a Senior React Native Team Lead with 10+ years of hands-on mobile development experience, delivering high-quality cross-platform apps for enterprises and startups. I specialize in React Native (Expo & CLI), TypeScript, Redux, ES6, iOS (Swift/Objective-C), Android, and modern DevOps practices. I excel at leading distributed engineering teams, owning architecture end-to-end (mobile + backend), rescuing failing projects and rebuilding them successfully, designing offline-first mobile architectures with background sync, mentoring developers, and shipping 4-5+ production React Native apps on iOS & Android.…I'm Carlos Portela, a Senior React Native Team Lead with 10+ years of hands-on mobile development experience, delivering high-quality cross-platform apps for enterprises and startups. I specialize in React Native (Expo & CLI), TypeScript, Redux, ES6, iOS (Swift/Objective-C), Android, and modern DevOps practices. I excel at leading distributed engineering teams, owning architecture end-to-end (mobile + backend), rescuing failing projects and rebuilding them successfully, designing offline-first mobile architectures with background sync, mentoring developers, and shipping 4-5+ production React Native apps on iOS & Android.

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I’m Carlos Portela, a Senior React Native Team Lead with 10+ years of hands-on mobile development experience, delivering high-quality cross-platform apps for enterprises and startups. I specialize in React Native (Expo & CLI), TypeScript, Redux, ES6, iOS (Swift/Objective-C), Android, and modern DevOps practices.

I excel at leading distributed engineering teams, owning architecture end-to-end (mobile + backend), rescuing failing projects and rebuilding them successfully, designing offline-first mobile architectures with background sync, mentoring developers, and shipping 4-5+ production React Native apps on iOS & Android.

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Work Experience

Lead React Native Engineer at BoatyDo

January 1, 2025 - Present

Leading development of a React Native app for yacht maintenance and task automation. Architected offline-first data layer with background synchronization and media capture. Designed modular state management with Redux Toolkit. Introducing CI/CD, automated testing, and code quality standards. Guiding junior developers and defining best practices.

Senior React Native Engineer at BoatCard

July 1, 2023 - January 1, 2025

Built a production React Native app for the boating community. Implemented full MySQL-backed Python/Flask API; later introduced Rust modules for performance. Delivered stable iOS/Android builds, OTA updates, push notifications, and analytics. Improved load time by optimizing bundle structure and caching strategies.

React Native Lead at SB

August 1, 2022 - May 1, 2023

Took over a failing project, re-architected from scratch, and delivered MVP on time. Implemented Node.js backend, secure auth, and state-managed React Native client. Built experimental SwiftUI components (Bluetooth scanning). Led architecture decisions and coordinated with product owners and designers.

Senior Mobile Engineer at Cargill

March 1, 2022 - April 1, 2023

Built a mission-critical React Native app for field maintenance technicians. Fully offline-capable, syncing to SAP backend. Used Redux Toolkit, Axios middleware, and advanced caching patterns. Multi-year cooperation across concurrent projects.

Lead Engineer at Yoke

March 1, 2022 - September 30, 2022

Architected a React Native KIOSK application for retail and hospitality. Led coordination with UI/UX, backend, and hardware vendors. Delivered optimized builds for rugged Android devices.

Senior RN Engineer at Quartzy

January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2022

Bootstrapped a new RN app, setup architecture, i18n, Redux, QR features.

Senior RN Engineer at Ryze Money

January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2022

Lead mobile dev for crypto/FinTech app (Plaid, APEX, PrimeTrust, Socure).

RN Engineer at SOLTECH

January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2022

Social network app (Mastodon/Federated), SwiftUI bridges.

Lead RN Developer at TruckStops

January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2022

Lead RN dev + offshore team lead; virtual payments app.