👋 Hey, I'm Hirbod - a software engineer in Frankfurt and part of the team at Expo. I care a lot about making software feel fast, reliable, and carefully made - from the pixels people see to the platform details they never should have to think about.
Where I Spend My Time
- 📱 React Native and Expo experiences that feel sharp, stable, and production-ready
- 🎨 Pixel-perfect interfaces, interaction polish, and the tiny details that add up
- ⚡ Performance work across UI, data flows, builds, and runtime behavior
- 🍏 Native modules and cross-platform details in Swift, Kotlin, and TypeScript
- 🚀 Product engineering across frontend, backend, automation, and CI
- 🛠️ Open source work that solves real problems instead of adding more noise
Right now I'm working on the Expo website and dashboard, along with other parts of the product where design, performance, and developer experience all meet. That is the kind of work I like most: taking something important, making it cleaner, faster, easier to trust, and nicer to use every day.
I can get obsessive about the details - layout, motion, render timing, loading states, logs, edge cases, the weird bug that only appears after three unrelated things happen in the wrong order. To me, that is where good software starts feeling genuinely good.
💖 Open source has done a lot for me, so I try to give back: maintaining packages, sponsoring other developers, and helping the React Native and Expo ecosystem get a little sturdier.
