Salvador Hernandez is an engineering manager and former full-stack practitioner with 11 years of experience building production web and mobile products, currently leading engineering at Seso in New York. He combines hands-on expertise in JavaScript, React/React Native, serverless AWS, and mobile NFC integrations with team leadership—having progressed from senior engineer to lead and now manager while shaping hiring, onboarding, and technical standards. A founder-minded builder, he co-founded Typetura to solve fluid typesetting problems and launched tooling and subscription infrastructure to commercialize it. He’s an active open-source contributor (notably improving the popular react-native-nfc-manager library) and runs a local JavaScript meetup, reflecting a commitment to community and mentoring. Salvador’s background as an automotive technician turned developer gives him a practical, problem-first mindset and a knack for translating complex systems into reliable, user-focused solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Developer, Full Stack Web Developer at General Assembly
High School Diploma Transportation & Engineering Pathway, High School Diploma Transportation & Engineering Pathway at Patterson High School
Automotive Engineering Technology/Technician, Automotive Engineering Technology/Technician at Universal Technical Institute, Inc.
Contributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Salvador primarily contributed to the React Native NFC manager library, focusing on enhancing its functionality and improving the user experience. Their work involved implementing features such as custom alert messages and the ability to close the NFC popup after a tag scan. They also addressed bugs, fixed an error related to data types in the iOS implementation, and refactored parts of the code to make it more efficient. Furthermore, the user added a stop function to the API and updated the relevant documentation.
Contributions:4 PRs, 31 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years
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Salvador Hernandez - Engineering Manager at Seso Inc.