Summary
Jose Portocarrero is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building mobile SDKs, native apps, and backend services across Android, iOS, and React Native ecosystems. Based in Jersey City, he currently leads Android and iOS SDK development at AdaptMX while also contributing to backend work in Ruby, Python, Java, and Kotlin. His background includes tech leadership and Android platform expertise at MasterCard and full-stack engineering at Verizon, where he developed real-time log management and infrastructure tooling using Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, and Jenkins. Jose pairs systems-level thinking from his Linux administration days with a strong app-focused product sensibility, enabling him to bridge DevOps, backend reliability, and client SDK design. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from NJIT and has a track record of shipping production-grade integrations for payments and mobile platforms. Colleagues would note his pragmatic approach to cross-platform engineering and his ability to move between low-level infrastructure and polished user-facing SDKs.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Computer Science, Computer Science at Rutgers University, Newark/New Jersey Institute of Technology (Joint
English, Spanish