Aaqua - Social Media App

Jens Van Steen

iOS Developer
Mobile Engineer
React Native Developer
GraphQL
React Native
Redux
Aaqua

Overview

Social media app around communities and passions.

Context

As an engineer on the core team, and also serving time on two feature teams (Messaging and Community), I gained experience in various fields of Mobile Engineering.
Performance optimizations: Improving app startup time and enhancing the performance of screens and components by leveraging memoization and other techniques.
Bug fixing: Unresolved bugs from feature teams were escalated to the core team, requiring me to often dig into library and native code to identify and fix the issues.
App security: Drawing on my previous job experience, I improved the app’s security, implementing techniques such as code obfuscation and safer handling of credentials.
Monorepo setup: Using NX, I set up a monorepo to improve codebase sharability and maintainability, which also led to significant reductions in build times, saving up to 330 hours monthly.
Design system: I built a design system for feature teams, ensuring that the API and component documentation were clear to enhance the user experience for the teams.
Messaging integration: I worked with GetStream to add messaging functionality to the app.
Testing: Applying a shift-left mindset, developers were responsible for writing E2E tests for their flows. We also maintained 100% test coverage for our codebase.
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