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Fernando Pailhe

Mobile Engineer — Buenos Aires, Argentina · Remote worldwide

Experience

Aug 2025 — Present

React Native Developer

Techint

  • Stabilized EQM, a deprecated offline-first mobile app with no test coverage, publishing 3 releases in 3 months after a year with no updates.
  • Built a 1,100+ test suite from zero (>80% coverage) and used it to migrate 166 files from JavaScript to TypeScript with zero regressions.
  • Introduced 4 automated quality gates (lint, format, test, type-check) and led the first AI agent shipped inside the product itself.
  • Owned end-to-end release management on App Store Connect and Google Play; primary client liaison shaping the roadmap.
React Native TypeScript Jest

Projects: EQM

Jul 2017 — Present

Filmmaker

Municipalidad de Tres de Febrero

  • Led video recording for municipal audiovisual communication — filming, structuring and scripting each piece.
  • Helped build and grow the communication team from its inception; the team became recognized as one of the best by peer institutions.
Apr 2023 — Aug 2025

Full Stack Developer

Sitio Uno · Remote

  • Spearheaded El Puma Contigo from scratch: CI workflow on Expo, with AI functionality integrated to improve user interaction.
  • Led the re-architecture of Be Soul around Redux and SOLID principles for long-term scalability.
React Native Expo TypeScript Redux

Projects: Be Soul · El Puma Contigo

Jun 2020 — Jul 2025

Full Stack Developer

Freelance

  • HangApp: took a beta MVP to a production-ready public release, with a full UI/UX redesign and architecture overhaul.
  • PassApp: maintained and extended an Android app for 10,000+ active users (Kotlin, MVP architecture).
  • Developed Be Soul's mobile app and backend (React Native, TypeScript, NestJS, MongoDB), including OpenAI assistant integration.
  • Built a native Android prepaid-card app and migrated it to a multi-platform React Native codebase.
  • Integrated Sentry for error monitoring and Jest for automated testing across projects.
React Native Kotlin TypeScript NestJS MongoDB Firebase GCP

Projects: HangApp · PassApp

Nov 2021 — Mar 2023

Full Stack Developer, Part-Time

My Stadium Golf · Remote

  • Maintained and optimized an Android tablet app (Java, MVP architecture) for performance and stability.
  • Built student-app features on a hybrid React Native Expo + legacy Laravel + AWS serverless stack.
  • Extended a PHP/Laravel REST API with API Gateway, Lambda and DynamoDB; optimized image delivery via CloudFront.
Java React Native Expo PHP/Laravel AWS
Jan 2011 — Jan 2020

Photographer & Filmmaker

Freelance

  • Planned shoots around available resources and adapted to last-minute changes in the field.
  • Managed client needs, schedules and small teams end to end.

Education

Mar 2008 — Sep 2014

Audiovisual Design

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Courses

  • 2021

    Basics in Kotlin for Android

    Google Developer Platform

  • 2008

    Interdisciplinary Design Workshop

    UBA & Universidad Javeriana de Colombia

  • 2002

    Microsoft Visual Basic

    Universidad Tecnológica Nacional