Robin Heinze is a Director of Engineering with 11 years of experience leading mobile-first teams and currently managing 20+ engineers at Infinite Red, where she shapes high-quality React Native apps across healthcare, finance, eCommerce, transportation, and more. She moved from business-focused tooling (Excel/T-SQL supply chain tools) into web and mobile engineering, bringing a rare combination of analytical, product-minded thinking and hands-on development expertise. An active maintainer on Infinite Red’s widely used Ignite React Native boilerplate, Robin contributes to core generators, accessibility improvements, and cross-cutting UI/UX refinements. She’s passionate about strategic skill development and running community-facing initiatives—cohosting the React Native Radio podcast and helping organize the Chain React conference—while balancing leadership with regular engineering contributions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at Epicodus
Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics and Economics, Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics and Economics at Whitman College
Bowser is now re-integrated into Ignite CLI! Head to https://github.com/infinitered/ignite to check it out.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 23 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Robin contributed to the project by updating the README, fixing plugin examples, and restructuring the codebase. They moved common text styles to a Text component and implemented typography improvements, indicating front-end work. Additionally, they made changes to the navigation store and updated API calls, suggesting involvement in both front-end and back-end aspects.
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 (Focus on React Native)
Contributions:56 reviews, 51 commits, 58 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Robin primarily contributed to the Ignite boilerplate project, focusing on enhancements and updates to the project's React Native components and generators. They added features to the plugin generation process, including README files and additional fields for the `package.json`. Further contributions involved merging branches, fixing screen loading issues, and refining the user interface with accessibility improvements. They also added features to the EpisodeCard component, like linking to the audio in the browser.
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Robin Heinze - Director Of Engineering at Infinite Red, Inc.