Martín Bigio is an engineering manager based in Miami with 13 years of experience leading and building production-grade mobile and backend systems, currently managing engineering efforts at Facebook. He rose through hands-on roles at Facebook and Instagram where he combined iOS and backend expertise to improve React Native’s runtime and developer tooling, contributing notable fixes and performance enhancements to widely used projects like facebook/metro and react-native. Known for bridging native and JavaScript boundaries, he’s shipped improvements to Hot Module Replacement, package resolution, and bundling infrastructure that benefit millions of developers. Martín started his career in Argentina, teaching and developing software at ITBA before moving into industry, bringing a pragmatic educator’s perspective to team mentorship and technical design.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology Engineer, Information Technology Engineer at Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
Contributions summary:Martín primarily contributed to the JavaScript bundler for React Native, specifically focusing on improving the core functionality and performance. The contributions include fixing issues related to package resolution, enhancing logging, implementing features like `require.ensure`, and optimizing caching mechanisms. Further work includes refactoring code to use ES6 features and improving the server-side infrastructure by modernizing the asset serving logic.
The React Native Community CLI - command line tools to help you build RN apps
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:60 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Martín's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and migrating components of the React Native Community CLI. They introduced a configuration template and moved core functionalities, such as the `bundle` and `new-library` commands, to the `private-cli`. The user also addressed command removals, and made improvements to the build and bundling process of the CLI. The user also migrated the `run-android` command to the `private-cli`.
reactyarnreact-nativejavascriptcommand-line-tools
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