Gerardo Sicart is a Senior React Native Developer based in Madrid with over a decade of experience building mobile and web products, recently returning from a brief sabbatical and open to frontend roles. He spent five years at Automattic driving the Gutenberg editor on WordPress mobile, contributing notable cross-platform React Native improvements to image handling, block UI, and native integration that improved the editing experience for millions of users. His background spans performance optimization, deep linking, E2E testing, and native-module bridging across startups and agencies, including Lingokids, Gudog and Vizzuality. Comfortable across React, TypeScript/JavaScript, Redux and native iOS/Android, he pairs hands-on implementation with a history of resolving platform-specific quirks and shipping polished UX. A pragmatic open-source contributor, he has hands-on commits in high-profile repos like WordPress-Android/iOS and Gutenberg, reflecting a focus on editor tooling and media workflows.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS/Android)
Contributions:779 reviews, 521 commits, 587 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Gerardo made numerous contributions to the Gutenberg editor project, specifically focusing on the React Native mobile implementation. The commits centered on adding, improving, and refactoring UI components, including the Cover, Media & Text, Image, and Button blocks. A significant portion of the work involved implementing and refining features related to colors, gradients, and overall styling across different block types and addressing specific iOS/Android platform-specific quirks, and fixes.
Contributions:82 reviews, 198 commits, 193 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Gerardo primarily contributed to the WordPress for Android application, focusing on the Gutenberg editor integration. Their work involved fixing issues related to the Gallery block, including updating linkTo values and test content. They also removed feature flags and made improvements to the image handling within the editor, specifically using the optimal image URL. These changes indicate a focus on improving the editing experience and ensuring correct media display.
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