Álvaro Ballester
Engineering Manager at Veo Technologies
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolÁvaro Ballester is an engineering manager and seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience building and scaling product and mobile teams across Europe. Currently leading Monetization at Veo Technologies after driving acquisition, conversion and retention engineering at Packlink/Auctane, he blends hands-on development with strategic leadership to deliver measurable business impact. He has led large public-sector engineering organizations—coordinating pandemic response systems and vaccine booking platforms for over a million users—demonstrating strength in mission-critical delivery and cost-saving operations. A long-time React Native contributor and creator of popular OSS components, his mobile work includes UX-focused improvements to widely used libraries like tcomb-form-native and keyboard-aware scroll views. Based in Copenhagen, he combines product-driven engineering, hiring and process design with a pragmatic coaching style. Outside work he signs his GitHub bio “Dadveloper,” hinting at a practical, family-rooted approach to life and engineering.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PDD Administración y gestión de empresas general, PDD Administración y gestión de empresas general at IESE Business SchoolIngeniero Informático, Ingeniero Informático at Universitat de les Illes Balears
English, Catalan, Spanish
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
scrollview10
ui-components10
keyboard10
android10
react10
react-components9
react-component9
cllocationmanager9
props8
prop8
swift6
coredata6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
APSL/react-native-keyboard-aware-scroll-view
Oct 2015 - Aug 2019
A ScrollView component that handles keyboard appearance and automatically scrolls to focused TextInput.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 39 commits, 93 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Álvaro primarily contributed to the development of a React Native component for handling keyboard appearance and scrolling. Their work involved implementing features such as automatically scrolling to focused text inputs, adjusting the scroll view's content inset based on keyboard visibility, and adding props to customize behavior. The contributions enhanced the component's usability and functionality by supporting features like extra height and extra scroll height to handle elements above the keyboard. Moreover, the user updated code to match the latest version of the React Native pull request.
reactscrollview-componentanimationscrollviewreact-native
gcanti/tcomb-form-native
Oct 2015 - Sep 2018
Forms library for react-native
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:7 releases, 17 commits, 72 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Álvaro primarily contributed to the form library for React Native, focusing on improvements and features specific to Android and iOS platforms. Their work includes adding support for date and time pickers, implementing default values for these pickers, and fixing issues related to padding and labels in UI components. They also addressed antipatterns and refactored code related to the controlled and uncontrolled components in the library.
react-nativereact
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