Sydney Achinger
Full Stack Engineer at Spotify
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSydney Achinger is a Full Stack Engineer with four years of experience building user-focused web applications at companies including Spotify and JPMorgan Chase. She brings a pragmatic blend of front-end polish and full-stack reliability, demonstrated by her contributions to the popular open-source Backstage project where she improved TechDocs UX, fixed complex scrolling/navigation bugs, added tests, and implemented theme override and redirect handling. Comfortable shipping features in large, distributed teams, she has experience across fintech and consumer music platforms and a Computer Science degree from the University of Florida. Known for turning tricky UI/UX edge cases into robust, testable solutions, she pairs a detail-oriented mindset with steady delivery in production environments.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Florida
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
user-interface10
jestjs10
react10
jtest10
jes10
material-ui9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 61 PRs, 95 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Sydney primarily focused on improving the user experience of the Backstage TechDocs platform. Their contributions involved fixing scrolling issues within the TechDocs reader, refactoring code for better performance, and adding tests to validate the navigation logic. They also implemented features to handle meta redirects, including adding UI notifications for users. Furthermore, they worked on the ability to override theme options for the TechDocsReaderPage.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
squid-ney/radr
Mar 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:17 PRs, 24 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
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