Meris Bahtijaragic is a Full Stack Engineer with 13 years of experience and an MSc in Computer Science, currently building CMS and platform tooling with Svelte, TypeScript, Kubernetes and Docker at StickerApp while running his own consultancy. He blends frontend and backend expertise—Scala, TypeScript, security automation and data engineering—with a strong focus on code quality, performance optimization and developer experience. Meris has contributed to notable open-source work on the popular pmndrs/jotai React state library, improving test coverage and reliability for advanced atom utilities. His background includes security-focused roles at Spotify and hands-on frontend work for Apple Maps, giving him a practical edge in secure, production-grade systems. Equally comfortable mentoring teams and engaging stakeholders, he often creates internal tools and practices that streamline development and harden applications.
👻 Primitive and flexible state management for React
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:27 reviews, 12 commits, 17 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Meris primarily contributed to testing and utility functions within the `jotai` repository, a state management library for React. Their work included adding tests for `useUpdateAtom`, `useResetAtom`, `useReducerAtom`, `atomWithReducer`, and `atomFamily`. They also added and modified tests for the `useSelector` and `focusAtom` utilities, enhancing the library's testing coverage for various state management patterns and optics.
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Meris Bahtijaragic - Full Stack Engineer at StickerApp