Mathieu Acthernoene is a software engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining mobile-first products and developer tooling, currently contributing to Expo from Lille, France. He has strong cross-platform React Native expertise—especially iOS and Android native modules—and has improved widely used open-source projects like react-native-bootsplash, react-native-localize and Expo itself. At Swan he progressed to Staff Engineer, blending deep implementation skills with system-level thinking across mobile and product teams. Pragmatic and curious, he often focuses on careful refactors, compatibility updates and subtle UX fixes (for example improving loading views and edge-to-edge Android behavior) that quietly raise reliability for many apps. His background in product ownership and UI/UX design informs a user-centered approach to engineering and open-source collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Licence Professionnelle RSC Option e-commerce, Licence Professionnelle RSC Option e-commerce at Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale
An unified permissions API for React Native on iOS, Android and Windows.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:89 releases, 35 reviews, 389 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mathieu primarily focused on updating and maintaining the example application within the React Native permissions repository. Their contributions include adding and updating example code, fixing iOS example issues, and modifying the example's build configuration to ensure compatibility with newer React Native versions (0.50 and 0.61.1). They also integrated React hooks into the example and improved the look of the example.
Contributions:14 releases, 103 commits, 33 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mathieu primarily contributed to the cross-platform React Native project by implementing and improving native iOS and Android modules related to internationalization (i18n). They fixed linking issues for both iOS and Android platforms and improved language detection mechanisms. The user also updated the project to support various React Native versions and integrated the i18n library with the native modules, ensuring consistent locale and language handling across both platforms.
i18n-jsreact-native
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