Irma Solakovic
Software Engineer at Roadie
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Summary
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RockstarIrma Solakovic is a frontend-focused software engineer with about 11 years in the industry and roughly 8 years specializing in JavaScript and React. Based in Bosnia and Herzegovina and currently at RoadieHQ, she blends hands-on UI development with full-stack contributions on Backstage plugins used to build developer portals. Her open-source work on the popular Backstage project includes enhancing Catalog components, polishing UX with features like entity peek-ahead delays, and maintaining package integrations—demonstrating attention to polish and long-term maintainability. She has implemented GitHub Insights UI features (releases, languages, README) and added tests and fixtures to ensure reliable behavior across plugin integrations. Colleagues know her for improving developer experience through pragmatic UI choices and for catching subtle integration gaps that often surface only in large platform projects.
11 years of coding experience
Bosnian, Croatian, English, French
Github Skills (13)
typescript10
backstage10
cypress10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
testing9
javascript9
material-ui8
cicd8
ui-design8
jira7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RoadieHQ/roadie-backstage-plugins
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
All Backstage plugins created by Roadie.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 114 reviews, 611 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Irma primarily contributed to the frontend of the Backstage plugin. They implemented UI components and functionality, focusing on features related to GitHub Insights, specifically the display of releases, languages, and Readme information within the overview and code insights tabs. They also made changes to integrate new plugins related to pull requests and Jira while ensuring code quality by fixing linting issues. Furthermore, they introduced tests and fixtures to ensure the proper behavior of the new added features.
backstagebackstage-pluginpluginroadie
backstage/backstage
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 53 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Irma primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the Backstage developer portal. Their contributions included adding and modifying components within the Catalog page, introducing properties and styling options for the catalog table, and implementing features like a delay for the entity peek-ahead popover. The user also updated packages related to Roadie and removed unused components, indicative of ongoing maintenance and feature development.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
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