André Junges is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building web and mobile products using JavaScript, React, React Native and Node. He has led front-end teams, mentored engineers, and collaborated across back-end and AWS-driven architectures to deliver production-ready features and integrations. André contributes to prominent open-source projects like Material-UI, where he improved React components and documentation—bringing practical UI polish to widely used libraries. Comfortable from product breakdown to implementation, he’s handled interviewing, code reviews, and technical architecture for databases and microservices. Based in Brazil, he combines a pragmatic engineering mindset with a constant curiosity for new tools like Next.js and GraphQL. Clients and teams benefit from his mix of hands-on coding, mentorship, and attention to user-facing detail.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Analysis and Systems Development, Information Technology, Analysis and Systems Development, Information Technology at Unisinos
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 14 PRs, 39 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:André primarily contributed to the development and improvement of React components within the Material UI library. Their work included adding new features like the `overlayStyle` property to the Dialog component and the `disabled` property to the DatePicker component. They also addressed bugs, such as fixing tooltip hover behavior in IconButton and resolving type errors in the RaisedButton. Additionally, the user updated and maintained the library's documentation, and fixed color overwriting issues with FontIcon.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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