Justin Poliachik
Senior Software Engineer at Infinite Red, Inc.
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Poliachik is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in mobile and React Native development, now contributing to Infinite Red's battle-tested Ignite boilerplate and CLI. He has led mobile engineering teams at financial and banking firms, architecting white-label iOS/Android apps and financial service APIs that supported digital transformation. Justin pairs hands-on implementation—CLI tooling, TypeScript refactors, and improved test suites—with leadership roles that drove product delivery at startups like Better and Formally. His work on Ignite demonstrates sustained open-source impact on the React Native ecosystem, including improving workflows for Expo and streamlining project generation. Based in Wilmington, NC, he combines a practical computer science background with a creative_minor in digital arts, which informs a user-focused approach to UX and tooling. Known for evolving developer workflows as well as consumer-facing mobile features, he bridges product needs and engineering discipline.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science Minor Digital Arts, B.S. Computer Science Minor Digital Arts at The University of North Carolina at Wilmington
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Github Skills (20)
react-native10
expo10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
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animation9
generator9
css9
boilerplate9
javascript8
testing7
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
infinitered/ignite
Jan 2024 - Oct 2024
Infinite Red's battle-tested React Native project boilerplate, along with a CLI, component/model generators, and more! 9 years of continuous development and counting.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 22 PRs, 33 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on improving the Ignite CLI and core project generation features. They added an Expo workflow decision tree and updated help text for the CLI. Their contributions involved refactoring TypeScript code, enhancing the testing suite, and removing demo code related to MobX-State-Tree for non-demo projects. The user demonstrated proficiency in React Native development, CLI tooling, and project setup configurations.
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Jpoliachik/justinpoliachik
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
Personal Website and Blog
Contributions:99 commits, 6 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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