Midhun’s story

Building a Cross-Platform Media Share Plugin

Built a native bridge that removed a delivery blocker in a React Native product.

  • React Native
  • Mobile Development
  • Native Integrations
  • iOS
  • Android

Midhun Darvin

Software Engineer at Builder.io

BBuilder.io
CChistaDATA Inc.
AAmazon
KKeyValue Software Systems
CCareStack™ - Dental Practice Management
10+ years of experience

From their time as

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Senior Software Engineer

KeyValue • 2019 - 2020

Overview

Midhun built a custom React Native plugin to let users share media from other applications into an early-stage social product. The work required native implementation across iOS and Android.

The Story

Midhun worked on an early-stage React Native social product for founders in an accelerator program. The product needed users to bring media from other applications into the app.

The available ecosystem supported sharing media out of an app, but not receiving it from other apps. That gap blocked planned delivery.

He took ownership of a custom native bridge and worked across native iOS and Android technologies outside his main frontend stack at the time.

The plugin removed the blocker and allowed the team to continue delivering the mobile product.

Ownership Snapshot

Broad role

Senior engineer on an early-stage social media product.

Goal

Enable media sharing into the mobile application.

Direct ownership

Built the custom cross-platform sharing plugin across native mobile stacks.

Team execution

Unblocked the team so the product could continue toward delivery.