Raul Riera
Senior Mobile Engineer at Odonto.me
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRaul Riera is a Senior Mobile Engineer and seasoned builder with 17 years of experience leading mobile and engineering teams across startups and high-growth tech companies. He has held developer and management roles at Shopify, Wealthsimple, and Phantom, founded product-centric startups including Odonto.me and Battlesquare, and now shapes mobile strategy at Flipcash. Raul blends hands-on iOS/Swift UI work—evident from his TextFieldEffects contributions—with backend improvements to prominent open-source projects like Strapi, showing a rare full-stack sensibility for data and developer experience. As an engineering manager he has scaled teams and delivery processes while still shipping code, and his academic background in IT management and knowledge innovation underpins a systems-minded approach to product architecture. Based in Ottawa, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with the discipline of long-term OSS collaboration, often tackling cross-platform quirks and database integration edge cases that others leave undone.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master, IT Management, Master, IT Management at Universidad EuropeaInformation Engineer, Information Technology, Information Engineer, Information Technology at Universidad Tecnológica del CentroMasters in Knowledge Management, Internet, Innovation, and Knowledge Management, Masters in Knowledge Management, Internet, Innovation, and Knowledge Management at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English
Github Skills (21)
content-management-system10
javascript10
ios10
animation10
typescript10
wpgraphql10
api10
front-end-development10
content-management10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
graphql10
swift10
textfield10
nodejs10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
raulriera/TextFieldEffects
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
Custom UITextFields effects inspired by Codrops, built using Swift
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 162 commits in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Raul primarily worked on the `TextFieldEffects` repository, focusing on creating and implementing custom `UITextField` effects using Swift. Their contributions include initial implementations of various effects, such as "Kaede", "Hoshi", "Jiro", "Isao", "Yoko", "Minoru", "Madoka", and updates for the "Akira" effect. They also worked on features like LTR language support and addressed issues related to pre-populated data, the text field's alpha, and a iOS 11 bug.
textfieldanimationswiftiosswiftui
strapi/strapi
May 2018 - May 2018
🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 27 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Raul primarily contributed to the Strapi project by enhancing the backend functionality. Their work involved adding options for database connections within strapi-mongoose, improving syntax, and updating the content type builder. Additionally, they merged branches and made modifications to the GraphQL service, introducing features such as amount limiting and polymorphic union types while modifying associated logic. This demonstrates a focus on core framework improvements and data handling.
cmsdashboardcontent-management-systemheadlessjavascript
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