Matt Race helps product teams design, stabilize, and ship React Native and Expo applications—connecting mobile architecture, CI/CD, release engineering, and technical leadership from first commit through production.
Engagement types
Focused engagements for teams that need architecture judgment, production accountability, and delivery—not a large consultancy handoff.
Establish the application structure, platform boundaries, delivery pipeline, and engineering patterns a mobile team can build on with confidence.
A durable foundation, built to reach production.
Untangle fragile builds, aging dependencies, release risk, and architecture debt without losing sight of the roadmap customers are waiting on.
A healthier codebase and a release process the team trusts.
Add senior technical judgment where it matters: planning, architecture, code review, mentoring, stakeholder alignment, and hands-on delivery.
Technical leadership without another management layer.
Selected work
Architecture decisions matter. So do build systems, app-store releases, team practices, and the work required to keep production moving.
Greenfield architecture
Established a greenfield React Native and Expo foundation designed for a growing product and engineering organization.
Production ownership
Owned the production mobile surface and the release systems required to ship it consistently across environments.
Enterprise technical leadership
Led across engineering and product boundaries to modernize delivery while strengthening the team around the platform.
Why hire Matt
Work directly with the person setting direction and shipping the product. No extra management layer, telephone game, or handoff between strategy and implementation.
Talk with MattHands-on implementation, debugging, reviews, and delivery—not recommendations passed to another team.
Pragmatic decisions shaped by product pressure, team capacity, platform constraints, and long-term cost.
Comfortable moving between mobile, product, backend integrations, CI, signing, and app-store releases.
Direct senior partnership with engineers and stakeholders, plus mentoring that leaves the team stronger.
Core technologies
Independent product
A product Matt designed, built, and ships: a kid-safe YouTube viewer that shows only parent-approved channels. YouApprove gives families parental controls, screen-time limits, and a simple kid-friendly experience without ads or algorithmic suggestions.
Available for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and Android