# Ashot Kirakosyan

> I lead and ship cross-platform mobile apps end-to-end - from architecture and team leadership to App Store review and the second year of maintenance.

Role: Mobile Tech Lead · React Native + Expo
Site: https://kirakosyan.dev
Email: hello@kirakosyan.dev

## About

I'm a mobile tech lead with 10+ years building cross-platform apps that ship and survive past App Store review. Led teams end-to-end: architecture, delivery, App Store and Google Play releases. Built apps with real-time features, payments and subscriptions (RevenueCat and Native), crash and error monitoring (Sentry, Crashlytics). Set up CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Fastlane, and Expo EAS. Comfortable across Detox / Maestro testing and Supabase / Firebase / REST / GraphQL backends.
Currently a senior React Native engineer at Goji Labs (LA, remote), where I lead complex consumer app builds and unblock the messy parts of legacy projects - performance, native bridges, store rejections, the unfun bits. Before that I led the mobile build at MOOW from zero - a large-scale React Native crypto wallet - through architecture, scaling, and on-device blockchain integration.
Outside work I run OKA, an indie app studio where I ship side projects that test ideas before they need to be polished. Engineering for me is a long game - the apps that compound are the ones built quietly, well, and on schedule.

## Experience

### Senior React Native Developer - Goji Labs (2021 - Present)
Lead mobile engineer on complex consumer app builds and legacy refactors. Drive RN-vs-native trade-offs, performance budgets, and store-review readiness. Established code review standards and integrated new tooling across the mobile team.
Stack: React Native, Expo, TypeScript, Redux Toolkit, MobX, Jotai, React Query, Firebase, RevenueCat, Stripe, Fastlane, EAS

### Lead Mobile Engineer - MOOW (2022 - 2024)
Built and led the React Native crypto wallet from zero. Owned architecture, hiring input, and the launch - including on-device wallet integration via Ethers, real-time market data over sockets, and cold-start / battery tuning.
Stack: React Native, Expo, Ethers.js, Recoil, D3, Sockets, Firebase, Health Data, Fastlane, CodePush

### Senior React Native Developer - Napoleon IT / Auxility (2020)
Two consecutive client engagements: rapid client app delivery in small teams at Napoleon IT, then refactoring an Expo app for real-time multi-device sync (camera, accelerometer, gyroscope) at Auxility.
Stack: React Native, Expo, Kotlin, Swift, Flutter, Firebase RTDB

### Software Engineer - Realizeit (2015 - 2018)
Main developer at the company. Drove the migration from native Android and iOS to React Native - set the cross-platform strategy, ran the cutover, brought up video / audio calls, maps, 3D rendering, and animations.
Stack: Android, iOS, React Native, Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift

## Selected projects

### OKA · App Studio
Indie mobile studio I run on the side. End-to-end ownership: design, engineering, App Store strategy, and the studio site itself.
Stack: React Native, Expo, SwiftUI, Astro, Cloudflare Workers

### UnBuy
iOS app under OKA. Pause before you purchase - adds 24 hours of friction between you and an impulse buy.
Stack: React Native, Expo, SwiftUI, StoreKit

### MOOW · Mobile Wallet
Led the React Native crypto wallet build from zero - on-device wallet via Ethers, real-time market data, scaled to a wide audience.
Stack: React Native, Expo, Ethers.js, D3, Sockets

## Stack

### Mobile
- React Native
- Expo
- TypeScript
- Swift / iOS
- Kotlin / Android
- Reanimated, Rive, Lottie

### State & Data
- Redux Toolkit, MobX
- Zustand, Jotai
- React Query, WebSockets
- Firebase, Supabase
- REST, GraphQL

### Quality & Release
- Sentry, Crashlytics
- Detox, Maestro, Jest
- Fastlane, EAS Build
- GitHub Actions
- RevenueCat, StoreKit
- App Store Connect, Play Console

### Leadership
- Architecture & native-bridge design
- Code review culture, mentoring
- Architectural decision records
- Roadmap, estimation, scope shaping
- Cross-team collab (PM, design, backend)
- Onboarding new engineers

## Contact

I'm open to Mobile Tech Lead roles at product companies - the kind where I own the mobile product end-to-end, work close with product and design, shape architecture, and grow the team. Remote only. If that's where you are, I'd love to hear from you.

Email: hello@kirakosyan.dev
Availability: Available for new opportunities

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/gish94
- Email: mailto:hello@kirakosyan.dev