Kawtar Choubari
FullStack Engineer @ Alobees
Kawtar Choubari is a software engineer specializing in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, and React Native.
Featured at Next.js Conf (2023) and React Conf (2024) with other community members, she has delivered 10+ talks and workshops with top-notch organizers including O’Reilly Media, Devoxx, BeJS, Reactjs Day... Passionate about sharing knowledge, she makes complex topics accessible to developers worldwide.
Also, Kawtar mentors students, guiding their tech careers, creates tech videos part-time on her YouTube channel (under her name). Dedicated to educating, she actively engages on social media platforms, sharing her expertise and extending her impact with the tech community.
Kawtar's work is encapsulated by these three words: Engineering, Educating, Entertaining.
Legacy React Native to Expo: What we learned migrating in the age of AI
Migrating a production React Native app to a modern Expo stack isn't just a technical challenge, it's a lesson in decision-making under pressure. In this talk, I'll walk through what it actually looked like to go from a legacy codebase to a fresh Expo setup: the navigation rewrites, the UI system, the things that broke, and the things we wish we'd done differently. I'll also be honest about where AI tooling helped us move faster and where it introduced bugs we didn't catch until it was too late.