Raul Gomez

React & React Native Expert | Mobile Engineer | Product Engineer | Founder

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

About

- Proven Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience in developing and deploying mobile and web applications with a strong emphasis on architectural design, scalability, and performance optimisation. - 8+ years of expertise in React & React Native with a track record of delivering commercial products. - Skilled in creating open-source libraries, with contributions that have garnered over 4K ⭐ from the community. - Published several technical articles on https://reactnative.university - Well versed on leading teams, mentoring colleagues, and creating technology courses. - Authored the Advanced React course for the Meta Front-End Developer Professional Certificate on Coursera, with 4.7 ⭐ and 100K+ students enrolled. - Co-founded Photora, a platform for arranging photoshoots in London, with 2K+ users. - Developed https://www.coursera.org/learn/advanced-react - Created react-native-offline, a popular library for managing offline mode in React Native, with ~40K average downloads per month, and react-native-scroll-bottom-sheet, the first ever library for building performant scrollable bottom sheets in React Native. - Presented at conferences such as React Alicante 2018, React Kiev, and Divante OSS Days. - Led workshops at JSHeroes, React Native EU, and React Alicante. - Created a pet project, Wondrgo, available on Facebook and Google Play. - Available for consultation on mobile architecture, CI/CD, UX product refinement, MVP development, launch strategy, and 1-on-1 sessions. DMs are open for connections and inquiries.

Experience

  • Founder at Rundy App
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    Join runs with other runners like you, and also sign up for training sessions and events from running clubs tailored to your schedule and needs. Train with freedom and meet other runners!

  • Founder at Vulcancode
    Aug 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

    I provide consultancy services in different areas of expertise, with a strong focus on web and mobile: React/React Native development, architecture, design systems, performance optimisations, scalability, continuous integration and deployment, testing, team training, mentoring, education consulting, etc.

  • Mobile Engineer at DSPTCH
    Feb 2023 - Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    - Acted as the mobile app’s technical expert, consistently tackling and solving the most complex challenges as one of only two developers on the project - Designed and implemented a robust offline-first architecture, including a custom Apollo optimistic sync link, ensuring seamless user experience regardless of connectivity - Introduced React best practices, type-checked the entire codebase, and enforced quality standards through CI hooks - Built a scalable design system, with a strong focus on layout optimisation: https://www.reactnative.university/blog/rethinking-layout-practices - Reduced Sentry issues to a minimum through proactive debugging and monitoring - Optimised app performance to the limit, by squeezing out every drop of efficiency - Developed a two-way iOS Live Activity integration: https://www.reactnative.university/blog/live-activities-unleashed - Delivered “Expo wizardry” by migrating all native code to the Prebuild system and leveraging custom plugins

  • React & React Native SME at SureSkills
    Aug 2022 - Jan 2023 · 6 mos

    - Developed the Advanced React course for the Meta Front-End Developer Professional Certificate in Coursera, with 4.7 ⭐ and 100K+ students enrolled: https://www.coursera.org/learn/advanced-react - Developed the Working with Data course for the Meta React Native Specialisation in Coursera, with 4.8 ⭐ and ~10K students enrolled: https://www.coursera.org/learn/meta-working-with-data - Developed the Capstone project for the Meta React Native Specialisation in Coursera, with 4.8 ⭐ and ~7K students enrolled: https://www.coursera.org/learn/capstone-react-app - Collaborated with other Subject Matter Experts and Instruction Designers to guarantee high quality content - Ensured technical accuracy of all content delivered

  • Co-Founder and CTO at Photora
    Mar 2021 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

    - Created the platform from scratch: a React Native application, a web application and the backend infrastructure - Bootstrapped the idea from inception all the way to the stores - Owned all the technical processes in the organisation - Reached 2K users in London in a year - Reached £200 MRR in 6 months