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From Swift Skeptic to Migration Lead 🧭 What React Native taught @leopyc about being a better iOS Engineer. Former designer, teacher, & full-stack dev, now Staff Engineer at @zenjobcom. Catch his talk at React Advanced Canada on March 24 & 26?

😲 @leopyc loves iOS development. He has a Swift tattoo on his right thigh. And he recently led a migration to @reactnative. Here are some of the outcomes for @zenjobcom since making the migration: ♢ Feature lead times dropped dramatically, with development cycles shrinking from weeks to days and sometimes even to hours. ♢ Deployment frequency increased by an order of magnitude thanks to over-the-air updates. ♢ Perhaps most significantly, mobile development transformed from a bottleneck to a company-wide capability. ♢ The shared design system improved consistency across platforms while reducing design debt. ♢ From a talent perspective, hiring became easier as we could tap into the larger pool of React and TypeScript engineers. ♢ Engineering satisfaction improved dramatically. Since the migration they haven’t had a single complaint about mobile development. Drink this one in slowly. Savor the logic the blog below ↓

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