Sophia Ciocca is a frontend engineer with a decade of experience designing dynamic, data-driven UIs and shipping polished web applications across media and music tech. She has driven frontend work at The New York Times and Spotify—building complex editor and dashboard tooling in React, TypeScript, Redux, and Sass—and now contributes to product-facing interfaces at Galaxy. Beyond coding, Sophia has led process improvements, helping teams adopt clearer agile practices, and has written technical articles sharing project learnings for large engineering audiences. Her background spans teaching and product strategy—from mentoring bootcamp cohorts and middle-school students to consulting and Peace Corps education work—bringing strong communication and user-focused design to engineering problems. Based in Saint Petersburg, FL, she pairs rigorous engineering with a knack for translating newsroom and data needs into maintainable, usable interfaces.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics, 3.6 (cum laude), Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics, 3.6 (cum laude) at University of Pennsylvania
Full Stack Web Development, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code Camp
North Allegheny
The Grace Hopper Program, Full Stack JavaScript, The Grace Hopper Program, Full Stack JavaScript at Fullstack Academy of Code
Contributions:42 commits, 61 PRs, 73 pushes in 3 months
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