Sophie L
Software Engineer at upryzing
the UK, France
Summary
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RockstarSophie L is a software engineer with seven years' experience building front-end and full-stack features, currently contributing to Upryzing and formerly a frontend developer at Revolt. She’s an active open-source contributor, notably enhancing GitHub Desktop’s editor integrations and improving the Revolt Preact client with UI, i18n, and UX fixes. Comfortable across the stack, Sophie focuses on maintainable, extensible code and pragmatic UX improvements that reduce friction for users and developers alike. Based between the UK and France, she brings a global perspective and a collaborative, community-minded approach to projects. Outside work she’s a self-described fan of trains, sushi, cats and open source—small signals of curiosity that surface in thoughtful, user-centered features.
7 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
atom-editor10
git10
javascript10
electron10
typescript10
github-desktop10
typescript-types10
preact10
typescripts10
react10
rails-i18n9
linux9
vite9
css9
ember-i18n9
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
revoltchat/revite
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Revolt client built with Preact.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 34 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Sophie primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Revolt client, focusing on UI enhancements and feature implementations. Their work includes adding tooltips and help icons, translating UI elements using preact-i18n, and integrating new UI components. They also addressed various styling issues and improved the user experience by adding features like the display of role IDs and fixing bugs related to message editing and iOS detection.
reactrevoltvitepreacttypescript
desktop/desktop
Jul 2019 - Oct 2021
Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 60 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Sophie's primary focus was enhancing the GitHub Desktop application's editor integration, specifically adding support for Atom Beta and Atom Nightly, and Visual Source Codium. They implemented code changes to support these new editor options across multiple sections of the application, including configuration and execution. Their contributions also included refactoring existing code to better accommodate the addition of new editors, demonstrating a focus on maintainability and extensibility.
fightingelectronmattersgithub-desktoptypescript
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