Sophia Andren is a Technical Director and front-end engineer in San Diego with seven years of experience crafting polished React-based interfaces that blend thoughtful design with robust engineering. As head of candycode, she partners closely with artists and developers to deliver creative digital experiences and has hands-on experience shipping UI/UX improvements and components. She contributes to notable open-source projects like pmndrs/jotai, where she implemented atom persistence to local storage and improved website UX—demonstrating both library-level thinking and product-focused polish. With a BS from Georgia State and a background in collaborative, design-forward development, she excels at turning visual concepts into maintainable, user-centered front-end systems.
7 years of coding experience
Associate of Science, A.S., Associate of Science, A.S. at Georgia Perimeter College
Bachelor of Science, B.S., Bachelor of Science, B.S. at Georgia State University
👻 Primitive and flexible state management for React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:40 reviews, 39 commits, 78 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Sophia contributed to the implementation of a new utility function, `atomWithStorage`, to persist Jotai atoms to local storage. They also developed tests for this functionality and integrated it. Furthermore, the user added a website component, and performed website UI/UX improvements, including the addition of a popover menu and layout optimizations.
Contributions:22 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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