Felipe Loyola

SPAN builds the smarter electrical panel that gives homeowners complete control over their home's energy.

• Scaled and led the mobile team from 2 to 7+ engineers across the US and India, including hiring, onboarding, and defining collaboration strategies.
• Secured buy-in from leadership, product, commercial, and the CEO for a monorepo migration — reducing duplicated code by up to 50% and increasing team velocity by ~30%.
• Transformed release cadence from roughly bimonthly to every two weeks for both apps, automating the release pipeline end-to-end with GitHub Actions.
• Champion adoption of AI-assisted development tools across the team, setting up agent rules and guidelines to accelerate delivery.

• Identified and resolved a memory leak that had impacted the mobile apps for over a year, within the first month on the team.
• Architected and implemented the new look and feel across both Span mobile apps, establishing a comprehensive design system that accelerated development cycles.
• Led the mobile implementation of the company's largest initiative — a complete system rewrite — coordinating across firmware, cloud, web, and mobile teams.
• Increased test coverage from 40% to 80%, significantly improving release confidence and code quality.

Hipcamp is a growing community and the most comprehensive resource for unique outdoor stays.

• Led the development and enhancement of numerous React Native features and directed high-impact tech debt initiatives, boosting performance and developer experience.
• Coordinated a multidisciplinary team to establish and integrate a cross-platform design system.
• Successfully managed the company's largest mobile project, overhauling the entire user experience end to end.

• Early member of the mobile team responsible for developing and launching the React Native app for BitMEX, a P2P crypto-products trading platform.
• Drove performance improvements, built new features, and owned on-call rotations.

An early-stage startup funded by the Chilean government, building a lifestyle mobile app that centralizes credit card discounts and offers.

• Designed the database schema and app architecture; built the MVP as a responsive web app (React, MobX-State-Tree, Firestore) and later the mobile app in React Native.

• Built a full-stack web platform (React, GraphQL, Node.js, PostgreSQL) for AI-driven DNA design and analysis. Led component architecture and API development.