Jordi Català Amat
Senior Software Engineer. Full-stack, mobile and applied AI.
jordi@jordiamat.com / +52 958 116 9947 / +34 611 144 170
jordiamat.com / linkedin.com/in/jcamat / github.com/jcatalaamat
Mexico, UTC−6, remote. EU citizen (Spain) with UK settled status. Elsewhere I contract through my US LLC.
Profile
Software engineer with 13 years shipping production software: C#/.NET backends at PwC and in SaaS, React and React Native at London startups, Python/Django and TypeScript since. I have been a startup's only in-house engineer and taken an app from prototype to a cross-platform product. Since 2025 I run my own small studio, build with Claude Code agents every day, and review, test and own what ships.
Experience
Equity-based
Founding Engineer, Sherppi
Took an audio-tour startup to production.
- Built the React web app and the Django backend: AI recommendations, geolocation-verified tours, Stripe payments, Spanish and English.
- Delivered with Claude Code agents.
Founder
Founder & Principal Engineer, Astral Studio (formerly Astral Integration)
My own studio. It builds and runs platforms for founder-led teams, mostly wellness and practitioner organisations.
- Run 40+ services on self-managed Linux: systemd, Docker, Caddy, Node.js, PostgreSQL.
- Build with Claude Code agents every day, including parallel sessions, and review, test and own what ships.
- Built a multi-tenant SaaS platform and an automated prospecting pipeline.
Contract
Software Engineer, Hostology
Worked directly with the CTO and founders on a production events platform, delivering features from the CEO's specs and the design team's Figma.
- Built in the C#/.NET domain layer on Entity Framework Core and a GraphQL API: itinerary menus, food allocations, document and PDF generation, rolled out behind feature flags.
- Wrote API tests that call the GraphQL endpoints as each user role.
Contract
Contract Engineer, Astral Integration (freelance)
React Native and Node.js wellness and education apps for international clients.
Contract
Software Engineer, Tinto
The only in-house engineer at an early-stage app for mothers.
- Took the product in-house from an outside agency: codebase, AWS, GitLab and App Store accounts.
- Shipped through TestFlight and App Store review, and hired an engineering intern.
Contract
Frontend Engineer, Just Insurance
Frontend contractor on React Native pay-per-mile car insurance apps.
- GPS tracking, crash analytics, and CI/CD through App Store and Play Store releases.
Full-time, then contract
Software Engineer, Movebubble
Joined as a backend engineer in C#, then worked full stack with React and React Native.
- Took the Negotiator app for agents from prototype to a fully functioning cross-platform mobile app.
- Worked on the renter web app.
- Full-time from April 2016 to July 2017, then back as a contractor from January to November 2018, in two engagements.
Full-time
Software Developer, PwC
C# ASP.NET backends for enterprise tax systems.
- Event sourcing and RabbitMQ; an ESB/SOA proof of concept.
Full-time
Software Developer, MRW
C# ASP.NET backends for a package-delivery platform.
- SOA, event sourcing and CQRS, with domain-driven design and TDD.
Skills
- Product engineering
- TypeScript, React, Next.js, React Native, Expo, Node.js, Python, Django
- Backend and data
- C# / .NET, Entity Framework Core, GraphQL, REST, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Supabase, Drizzle
- Infrastructure and delivery
- Linux, Docker, Caddy, Nginx, AWS, Railway, CI/CD, App Store and Play Store releases, Stripe
- Applied AI
- Claude Code, multi-agent workflows, LLM extraction, Ollama
Education and languages
BSc Computer Software Engineering, UPC Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB), 2009 – 2013.
Catalan (native), Spanish (native), English (fluent).
Recommendations
“It's great working with a full-stack engineer who is always willing to take on a requirement or feature and own it from start to finish, and who is always looking to improve.” Mark Somerfield, CTO at Hostology.
“In a very short time he took the Movebubble Agent App from a prototype to a fully functioning, cross-platform mobile app — now a vital part of the business.” Tom Allen, Technical Lead at NEVERBLAND (formerly Movebubble).