Matt Revell
Staff Engineer at Zopa Bank
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Revell is a seasoned mobile and front-end tech lead with 11 years’ experience building React and React Native apps, currently leading UPL at Zopa. He combines deep JavaScript/TypeScript expertise with practical Swift, Objective-C and occasional Go work, shipping multiple commercial iOS apps and B2B healthcare solutions for clients like Bupa and Samsung. A hands-on engineer who rose through roles from lead iOS developer to Head of Mobile, he’s delivered cross-platform, REST-driven systems with CI, Docker and AWS while driving UI automation and testing best practices. Matt is an active open-source contributor to React Native ecosystem projects (notably improvements to a popular react-native-icons repo) and has a track record of prototyping novel cross-platform approaches. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, client-facing collaboration, and turning complex mobile requirements into production-ready apps.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ilford County High Grammar SchoolIT & Information Systems Computer Science, IT & Information Systems Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of London
Github Skills (4)
react-native10
ios10
javascript9
swift6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
corymsmith/react-native-icons
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Quick and easy icons in React Native
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on improving the React Native icon library. Their commits involve refactoring code, removing dependencies on external libraries (e.g., `invariant`, `merge`), and updating the codebase to use modern JavaScript features, such as `Object.assign`. The user also addressed component styling and incorporated type checking for improved code quality. Additional changes included updates to the iOS specific code.
react-native
admmasters/react-native-starterkit
Apr 2017 - Jan 2026
A React Native Starter Kit
Contributions:27 PRs, 56 pushes, 57 branches in 8 years 10 months
react-native-starter-kitboilerplatereactreact-native
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