Senior Mobile Developer · Oddball
- Develop React Native features and platform improvements for the VA mobile healthcare application.
- Support accessibility, mobile architecture, and application workflows across TypeScript and React Native systems.
Caressa Arias
Senior Software Engineer — Mobile & React Native
San Francisco, California · caressa.arias@gmail.com ·LinkedInSummary
Senior software engineer with 9+ years building and stabilizing production cross-platform mobile applications. Experienced in TypeScript, React Native, native module development, CI/CD automation, and end-to-end mobile release ownership. Focused on scalable architecture, testing, accessibility, and long-term maintainability in regulated environments.
Experience
Full Stack Software Engineer (Contract) · Macnew Consulting
- Architected and delivered a multi-tenant governance SaaS platform for enterprise compliance and security workflows.
- Built authentication, RBAC authorization, audit logging, approval workflows, dashboards, exports, and automated task systems.
- Read the compliance-governance case study.
Senior Engineer, Mobile & Frontend Lead · Olympiah
- Standardized architecture across React and React Native codebases to improve maintainability.
- Built CI/CD quality gates that reduced build failures by about 50%, cut deployment time by about 40%, and increased release frequency.
- Read the shared-architecture case study.
Senior Mobile Developer (Public Trust) · Excella
- Led React Native architecture for a federal healthcare app, ensuring secure iOS and Android parity.
- Built Swift and Java native modules integrating ML Kit for on-device image validation; automated App Store and Google Play releases with Fastlane.
- Read the federal mobile case study.
Senior Android Developer · Inland Empire Health Plan
- Sole engineer for Android architecture, modernization, and release lifecycle of a 7k+ user healthcare app.
- Modernized a legacy Java/Kotlin codebase, increasing downloads by about 20% and reducing deployment time by about 50%.
- Read the healthcare Android case study.
Software Engineer (Secret Clearance) · Chesapeake Technology International
- Built Java desktop and Android applications for a plugin-based GIS platform processing real-time sensor data.
- Implemented sensor-integration plugins, mentored four interns, and supported field deployments in classified environments.
- Read the GIS sensor-platform case study.
Skills
- Mobile
- React Native (Expo and Bare), Android (Java/Kotlin), native modules (Swift/Java), Fastlane
- Frontend
- React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Redux, accessibility (WCAG), Jest, React Testing Library
- Backend & cloud
- NestJS, PostgreSQL, Prisma, REST APIs, OAuth/JWT, Docker, Azure, Redis
- DevOps & tooling
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Azure), Firebase, Crashlytics, Git
Education
University of California, Santa Barbara · Bachelor of Science, Computer Science