Leo Picado

Learning to live, code. Chikara superfan, dog person, punk rocker, tattooed, living the dream. Danced with Evan Bacon once. A living, talking, walking WIP.

[wXw Germany @wXwGermany]

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[Leo Picado @leopyc]

Last week I mentioned that my talk was picked up to be presented at @ReactAdvanced in 2026. If you don't want to miss it, make sure to get your Early Bird tickets now, use the code LEOFRIENDS for an additional 10% off.

Get your tickets now https://t.co/RlkPm0PiSa

[Leo Picado @leopyc]

Catch me next March in Toronto or online, as a former iOS Developer sharing my experience leading a React Native migration.

[React Advanced Conference @ReactAdvanced]

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?

[Leo Picado @leopyc]

@thymikee @expo @reactnative @zenjobcom It was fantastic, we can iterate so quickly now, as much as I love Swift OTA updates are a game changer.

[Leo Picado @leopyc]

@expo And we are never looking back! Thanks for giving me a space to share our experience

[Leo Picado @leopyc]

I was invited to share our experience about replatforming our separate Android and iOS applications using Expo, read all about in the latest entry of their blog over here

[Expo @expo]

😲 @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 ↓

[Expo @expo]

📚 From Swift tattoo to React Native migration lead: a business-first approach to mobile development
✍️ @leopyc

Even for someone with a Swift tattoo, the business benefits of React Native with Expo are impossible to ignore.

https://t.co/hUZXDwdVf0

[Expo @expo]

😲 @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 ↓

[Leo Picado @leopyc]

Opinion | From defiance to dignity: CM Punk's redemptive turn toward nihilism https://t.co/dZgHK1hki0

[Leo Picado @leopyc]

@Baconbrix Not meaning to troll but, but I wonder if the current migratory situation, was considered in the selection of the US as the place to host it 😕

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

Has anyone got a spare UUID I can use?

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

"Why did the Swift developer cross the road?"

Thanks to Swift's powerful libraries, you can call a JSON API and decode the results in just a couple of lines. And thanks to @icanhazdadjoke, there's a bad pun waiting on the other side... #DadJoke

[Leo Picado @leopyc]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Leo Picado @leopyc]

@twannl So it begins!

[Leo Picado @leopyc]

To address the rumors, yes I do know how to fish. No, there is no movie about it.

#WWDC24

[Leo Picado @leopyc]

@mr_aixo @aboutberlin This is the one, I used it when my parents visited last year. Got them a ticket for just one month and it worked great.

[Chris Lattner @clattner_llvm]

Wow that's right. This was a big day and Swift has come a long way in the intervening decade: Congrats to everyone who has driven it forward to support such an amazing tech platform! 🍎🐣

[Leo Picado @leopyc]

Preach @Baconbrix
#appjsconf

[Leo Picado @leopyc]

@DonnyWals should have gotten rid of those old reddit posts my man!

[Leo Picado @leopyc]

Thinking about finally dropping my @DonnyWals diss track.