Uruguay

Product Design

Customer Experience (CX)

iOS Engineering

Android Engineering

Semester Abroad

Engineer's degree

Matias Jurfest

Mobile Team Leader

Monetisation

Problem-solving

Project management

React Native

Swift

Amplitude

GitHub

Google Ads

JavaScript

Mixpanel

Monday

Usability Testing

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

We are a high-tech Startup created between Silicon Valley and Uruguay with the mission of building cutting-edge, massive-scale GenAI-first products designed to create positive impact.

Creators of https://zapia.com

Created a Flutter mobile app that helps users collect their World Cup Sticker Album.
Owned the design and engineering for product definition, UX, monetization strategies, ads, conversion optimization, monitoring, in-app purchases and analytics.
Achieved 2 million downloads. Reached #1 in App Store (Sports) in Brasil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador and Uruguay.
Maintained a 4.9 rating based on 60,000+ user reviews in AppStore and PlayStore.

Built full-stack products that empower users to promote and manage their business online, such as Facebook Ads, SEO, Email Marketing, Social Posts and Video Maker.
Implemented features within the Owner App and the Business Manager website using JavaScript, TypeScript, React Native and React.
Worked in the SEO Dashboard, establishing connections with Google APIs to enhance website indexing, improving Wix users sites' SEO metadata.
Collaborated in a team of Developers, Data Analysts, QA, UX Designers and Product.

Led daily meetings tracking team efficiency and coordinated weekly between Engineering and Product/Design.
Responsible for sprints planning and ensuring the quality of the agile processes to deliver solid results, keeping project timelines and scope.

Rewrote the mobile app using Swift, enhancing the architecture and adding CI/CD.
Led and planned 2 projects from design to release.
Worked in coordination with QAs, Product and Designers, being the team’s Scrum Master.
Drove implementation of a feature that improved app usage time by 50% (Hackathon Winner).
Collaborated in a distributed team around Israel, Ukraine, Argentina and Colombia.

Built native iOS apps for USA startups, using Swift, Objective-C, MVC and MVVM.
Collaborated in 9 projects with cross-functional teams to design, develop and ship software.
Worked with peer code reviews, usage of linters, design patterns and CI/CD.
Participated in the development of an open source iOS base project.
Worked closely with internal and external clients in an agile environment using Scrum.
Developed REST APIs using Ruby on Rails, Heroku and PostgreSQL.

Developed features for a farming company's management website.

Encouraged students to get involved in programming and develop their coding skills in Java.
Supervised students’ laboratory work.

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