Sérgio Estêvão
Senior Mobile Developer On Pocket Casts at Automattic
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolSérgio Estêvão is a senior mobile engineer and architect with 15 years of experience building consumer-facing iOS and Android apps from Lisbon, currently driving product and payments work on Pocket Casts at Automattic. He has a strong track record delivering paid features and monetization—having launched multiple subscription and tipping systems that generated six-figure monthly revenues at Tumblr and a referral program at Pocket Casts—and architected the Gutenberg-powered WYSIWYG editor and media picker for the WordPress mobile app. His hands-on expertise spans native and React Native development, location services and augmented reality, and notable open-source contributions include UI and rich-text work on WordPress’ Gutenberg and the Aztec iOS editor. Comfortable leading teams and defining architecture, he pairs product-minded engineering with experience scaling CI, cross-platform integrations, and complex media workflows.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (16)
wordpress10
editors10
uid10
swift10
blocks10
javascript10
blockly10
ios10
react-native10
mobile-development10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
editor10
android9
ui-testing9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
wordpress-mobile/AztecEditor-iOS
Aug 2016 - Jan 2021
A reusable native iOS visual HTML text editor component.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 3 reviews, 1466 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sérgio made various changes to the Aztec editor's user interface. They implemented features such as video attachments, with controls for adding and removing them. The user also worked on the styling, including adding visual cues for selection and implementing support for color styling with spans. The changes also include code to toggle html and improve the general behavior of different HTML elements.
html-text-editorios-nativeiosios-libraryhtml-text
WordPress/gutenberg
Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS/Android)
Mobile Developer (iOS/Android)Contributions:953 commits, 222 PRs, 449 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Sérgio primarily contributed to the React Native implementation of the Gutenberg block editor for WordPress. Their work included developing and integrating various features such as a rich text editor with formatting controls, image upload and copy/paste functionality, heading and list block support, and video settings. They also focused on improving the mobile UI, implementing dark mode support, and refactoring media upload methods.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
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