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Why I finally built this site
Ten years of shipping mobile apps, and nothing written down. This is where that changes.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Mario Norato
Senior React Native Developer
I build mobile applications. For ten years I have shipped React Native apps for banks, retailers, newspapers and crypto startups — from a greenfield project I architected alone to a codebase read by a million people a month.
I care about clean architecture, tests that earn their keep, and code a stranger can read on a Monday morning. This site is my CV and a place where I write about all of it.
Selected work
Read the CV →A few places the code ended up.
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Ditto
2025Senior Customer Experience Agent
Supported enterprise clients integrating Ditto’s real-time data synchronisation technology into both React Native and native Android applications.
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Pets at Home
2025Senior React Native Developer
Built consumer-facing mobile applications for the UK’s leading pet care retailer, serving millions of customers nationwide.
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Relai
2023Senior React Native Developer
Built a consumer cryptocurrency mobile application aimed at mass-market Bitcoin adoption, onboarding new users into the crypto ecosystem.
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MoneyFarm
2022Technical Lead / Senior React Native Developer
Led development of the &Me investment platform, working closely with cross-functional teams.
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News UK — The Times
2021Senior React Native Developer
Part of the mobile team behind the digital edition of The Times, an app with close to a million downloads across the App Store and Play Store.
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Education First
2020Senior React Native Developer
Sole senior developer on the greenfield Campus Coach project: I architected the entire application and owned it from inception to deployment.
What I work with
- Mobile
- React Native Expo Native Android React Navigation Native modules
- Languages
- TypeScript JavaScript Java Kotlin PHP
- State & data
- Redux redux-saga MobX GraphQL Apollo Client REST WebSockets
- Testing
- Jest Detox Appium TDD BDD Storybook
- DevOps & delivery
- Fastlane Bitrise EAS Jenkins Azure DevOps Docker
- Practices
- Clean architecture Agile / Scrum Code review Mentoring OAuth / SSO
Recent writing
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Upgrading React Native 0.67 to 0.73 while the release train keeps moving
Six minor versions, a financial app in the App Store, and no feature freeze. Here is the strategy that made it survivable.