Full Stack Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and scaling production web platforms, with a strong focus on React-based architecture, GraphQL integrations, and frontend performance optimization. Committed to clean code, accessibility, and reusable component libraries. I help teams migrate and modernize systems end-to-end—delivering secure user management, WCAG-compliant UI, and Core Web Vitals improvements for large-scale applications.

Sophia McGee

Full Stack Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and scaling production web platforms, with a strong focus on React-based architecture, GraphQL integrations, and frontend performance optimization. Committed to clean code, accessibility, and reusable component libraries. I help teams migrate and modernize systems end-to-end—delivering secure user management, WCAG-compliant UI, and Core Web Vitals improvements for large-scale applications.

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Full Stack Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and scaling production web platforms, with a strong focus on React-based architecture, GraphQL integrations, and frontend performance optimization.

Committed to clean code, accessibility, and reusable component libraries. I help teams migrate and modernize systems end-to-end—delivering secure user management, WCAG-compliant UI, and Core Web Vitals improvements for large-scale applications.

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Full Stack Engineer at Charles River Laboratories
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2025
Led migration from a Drupal CMS (PHP monolithic) to a headless Next.js (TypeScript) frontend integrated via REST and GraphQL APIs, supporting thousands of SEO-optimized pages. Maintained and extended Drupal content models, structured schemas, and API endpoints to preserve SEO integrity before and during the transition. Built an enterprise React + Chakra UI component library aligned with CMS-driven content architecture, reducing UI development effort by ~40% and delivering 100% WCAG 2.1 AA-compliant interfaces in a regulated environment. Improved Core Web Vitals using code splitting, lazy loading, structured caching, and large-scale frontend performance optimizations. Integrated backend services via Apollo Client for structured fetching and scalable state management. Owned end-to-end development of a secure user management MVP using React, Node.js, and Fastify with authentication/authorization best practices. Enhanced complex SQL queries and backend services for data integrity, contribu
UI Fullstack Developer & Design Intern at The Walton Institute
January 1, 2022 - Present
Created high-fidelity prototypes and interaction flows in Figma and Adobe XD, grounded in usability and accessibility principles. Translated design systems into production-grade Angular applications for live client environments. Built three responsive web applications with structured state management and modular UI architecture. Improved performance through lazy loading, refactoring, and structured asset management (+20%). Strengthened client-side validation and API data handling, reducing integration defects by 25%.

Education

Higher Diploma in Computer Science (First Class Honours) at South East Technological University
January 11, 2030 - July 13, 2026
Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication in Design (2:1) at Waterford Institute of Technology
January 11, 2030 - July 13, 2026

Qualifications

Red Hat OpenShift I: Containers & Kubernetes (RH124, RH134, RH254)
January 11, 2030 - July 13, 2026
React Fundamentals
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2026
JavaScript Fundamentals v2.0
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2026
Oracle SQL Certification
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Education, Professional Services

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