Skylar Barrera
Staff React Native Engineer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSkylar Barrera is a Staff React Native Engineer with 7 years of experience building high-performance mobile products, currently focused on React Native at Aave Labs in New York. Previously a founding engineer at a blockchain-native ticketing startup, Skylar shipped greenfield iOS and Android apps, designed cryptographically secure ownership flows, and optimized checkout and live check-in systems under real event load. At Rainbow, they led core mobile architecture and reliability work for a leading crypto wallet, drove major swaps and DeFi features, and built a high-performance in-app browser using advanced React Native techniques. Comfortable across product, infra, and release engineering, Skylar also architects CI/CD and E2E testing pipelines and has a track record of translating complex crypto primitives into user-facing experiences. With a CS degree from William & Mary and a background that spans legal-tech infrastructure and service-design MVPs, they bring both engineering depth and product-minded systems thinking. An enthusiast for tech, music, food, and travel, Skylar often pairs rigorous engineering with practical operational playbooks that keep fast-moving teams shipping.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Management & Organizational Leadership Minor, Management & Organizational Leadership Minor at William & Mary – Raymond A. Mason School of BusinessBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at William & Mary
Spanish
Github Skills (106)
testing10
microfrontend10
pocket10
cryptocurrency10
native-module10
framework710
wallet10
javascript10
mbaas10
shamir-secret-sharing10
ethereum-wallet10
test-automation10
localstorage10
uniswap10
connect10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
skylarbarrera/skybar
Jul 2018 - Jul 2020
Personal Website V1
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
react
skylarbarrera/skylarbarrera
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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