Mario Zorz is a senior Android engineer and technical lead with over two decades working across mobile platforms, currently leading Android efforts at Automattic from Madrid. He combines deep mobile app and server-architecture expertise with hands-on implementation, having founded a mobile studio, led product teams, and shipped features for high-profile open-source projects like WordPress’s Gutenberg and AztecEditor-Android. Mario’s track record spans consumer apps, rich text editors, media handling, and geographically distributed data systems, with a history of awards and innovation dating back to embedded GPS and Palm-era products. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and a leader, he brings entrepreneurial instincts—he created The Prosciutto Project and ran GravityMakers—plus a knack for bridging native and React Native mobile code to solve real-world UX and performance challenges.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Informatics, Engineer, Informatics at UADE
Contributions:23 releases, 145 reviews, 3052 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mario primarily contributed to the WordPress for Android application, focusing on features related to story creation and editing. They implemented preferences to save and retrieve story slides, modified existing components to integrate story editing capabilities, and introduced new UI elements within the application. They also added event handling for Story actions related to saving and discarding, and also added logic to load and manage story blocks.
A reusable native Android rich text editor component.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:10 releases, 205 commits, 77 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mario primarily contributed to the `azteceditor-android` repository by implementing features related to media handling and text editing within the rich text editor component. They added functionality for deleting media elements, including images, videos, and audio, and integrated a deletion watcher. The user also worked on bug fixes and improved performance for the existing rich text editor, including fixes related to deletion at the start and end of text and improved code readability. The user's contributions demonstrate a focused effort on enhancing core editor functionality.
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Mario Zorz - Sr. Android Engineer & Lead at Automattic