Tigran Sahakyan

Founded WavyStuff and independently designed, built, and shipped Gradl, a mobile puzzle game, end-to-end on both iOS and Android using React Native and Expo. Owned the full technical stack, including architecture, Firebase backend, and analytics, with sole responsibility for performance and release decisions.

Refactored 1,300+ lines of monolithic legacy React Native code at Homebase into modular, Redux-based components. Rearchitected application state management using Redux to streamline data flow across core screens at Homebase, and configured Jest for unit testing at Shades.

Led the mobile engineering team, setting technical direction and reviewing the team's work. Owned the core technology stack, repository structure, and dependency choices for a production React Native app, and automated CI/CD release pipelines with GitHub Actions.

Worked as a Senior React Native Engineer on a freelance basis via Upwork, contributing to mobile development projects.

Reduced app startup time by over 70% (from 10+ seconds to 3 seconds) by profiling cold-start bottlenecks and implementing lazy loading. Built custom gesture controls and a persistent floating UI component to drive premium feature conversion.

Worked as a React Native Engineer, contributing to the development of mobile applications.

Engineered a high-performance interactive sticker engine supporting touch gesture transformations rendered on a single view layer. Designed a custom image caching system to minimize memory consumption and prevent UI lag.

Worked as an Android Engineer, developing Android applications.

Worked as a Java/JavaScript Engineer, contributing to software development projects.

Bachelor of Computer Science from Yerevan State University, focusing on informatics and applied mathematics.