Freelance React Native leadAvailable for a new mission
A React Native app a small team can hold.
Jean Desauw, freelance Lead React Native. Over two and a half years on a production app: Bluetooth, animations and video, on iOS, Android and web from one codebase. I lead the React Native side, and I set up the repo so your AI agents follow your conventions instead of inventing new ones.
See the workOdisei Play · In production
Saxophone or clarinet. The app responds.
Odisei Play supports Travel Sax, Travel Clarinet, acoustic saxophones and acoustic clarinets, with real-time feedback as you play. The audio engine, pitch detection and game screen are the work of Kim Chouard, the CTO. We were two engineers, shipping a release every two weeks.
38% of the repo’s 14,777 commits are mine. Counted September 2026.
Offer 01 · Lead React Native
From Bluetooth to the app stores.
Architecture, code review, animations and builds. I take responsibility for your React Native app and work with your designer. On your team, fully remote. Full-time or part-time, depending on what you need.
Offer 02 · AI methods
A repo your agents can read.
I prepare your codebase for working with AI agents. Your team stays in control of the decisions and the code you ship.
Field notes
The work continues in the notes.
Bluetooth in production, Claude Code, repo rules. I write about what I build, the mistakes along the way and the fixes that hold.
About
I came to code from audiovisual.
Before code, I was an audiovisual technician. That is where I learned to hold a story together, in images and sound. Then I retrained as a developer. I have been freelance for five years now, by choice.
I'd rather be the calm one than the clever one. A messy repo is something to read before it is something to fix.
I don't think the job is to be the best coder anymore. The job is to hold an idea clearly enough that the machine can build it. And to keep the repo clean enough that it doesn't wreck it. AI extends that thinking. It doesn't replace it.
I want the work to reach someone. On Odisei Play, a person learning the saxophone. With sneq-engine, my open-source library, a player in a game that remembers its own story.
Over to you
Let’s talk about your app.
You write, we talk. If I am not the right fit, I say so.