Carlos Prim is a senior product engineer based in Madrid with 10+ years delivering mobile-first experiences and leading engineering teams across startups and product companies. He blends deep hands-on expertise in iOS, Android and React Native with leadership roles at Lingokids and Automattic, where he contributed to high-profile open-source projects like WordPress mobile and Gutenberg. Carlos has a strong track record of shipping UI/UX improvements, caching and embedding features, and cross-platform tooling—often tackling tricky rendering, dependency and drag-and-drop issues. A former game developer and co-founder, he brings a practical product mindset and an ability to move between legacy codebases and modern component-driven architectures.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería informática, Ingeniería informática at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:1362 reviews, 491 commits, 535 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Carlos primarily contributed to the mobile (iOS) version of the Gutenberg editor within the WordPress project. Their work involved implementing new features related to the embed block, including integrating a web view for previews and adding support for different providers and URL handling. The user also focused on improving and fixing the drag and drop functionality, including the correct display of the selected button and managing of text input focus, and also included improvements to the UI for the help section.
Contributions:188 reviews, 215 commits, 178 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Carlos primarily worked on the WordPress for Android application, focusing on various features and improvements. Their contributions included integrating release branches, adding caching functionality to React Native requests, correcting line length issues, and updating unit tests. They also added functionality related to reusable blocks within the Gutenberg editor and embed capabilities, showcasing their involvement in maintaining and enhancing the application's core features.
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