About Hemanta Sapkota
I've spent my career shipping React Native products at every scale — consumer apps, startup platforms, and enterprise banking.
I'm a React Native lead engineer. I help banks and product teams ship and scale mobile platforms — from first commit at a startup to million-customer migrations inside a $1.6B enterprise program, across Australian enterprise, startup, and consumer products.
I work best where product, engineering, and delivery meet: proving a platform on a controlled pilot, then scaling it without losing release discipline. Alongside client work I've shipped my own App Store products for 8+ years and built free tools used by 10,000+ React Native developers.
Lead Engineer, Project EDGE — National Australia Bank
Led mobile platform delivery inside NAB's $1.6B technology transformation. Proved the React & React Native micro-frontend platform on the NAB Edge Credit Card staff pilot — a live card with real accounts and compliance — then scaled the same foundation to whitelabel partner apps for 1M+ Citi customers. Case study →
Founding Engineer — Freely (backed by Zurich)
Built Freely's travel insurance platform from the ground up as founding engineer — quote-to-cover journeys, onboarding, and customer support on React Native, with foundations that kept startup speed as user, partner, and compliance demands grew. Case study →
Consulting Engineer — Fit For Footy
Ran a phase-gated consulting engagement — Discovery, Build, Launch — taking an elite AFL training app from product definition to App Store release. The result: featured by Apple, an AFL partnership, and a 4.8-star rating across 2K+ reviews. Case study →
3P Learning
Engineering on educational technology products.
Learn to Code with Yolmo®
Replit-style React Native coding playgrounds with AI — shipped monthly for 8+ years, 4.6 stars with 4.5K ratings on the US App Store (7K+ globally), and approved for an Australian Federal R&D grant. Case study →
React Native Pro tools
Free developer tools — including the Icon & Splash Generator used by 10,000+ developers worldwide — plus guides and resources for React Native teams. Explore the toolbox →
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