Benjamin Kaiser
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolBenjamin Kaiser is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance front-end experiences for Microsoft products including OneDrive, SharePoint and Azure. A former Google competition winner, he blends deep UI/UX craftsmanship with practical full-stack tooling—contributing accessibility and component improvements to Fluent UI and build/versioning fixes in the Rush Stack monorepo. He has led PWAs and SPA architecture work that improved performance and navigation across large-scale web apps, and earlier in his career rebuilt e-commerce and CMS systems that processed millions in orders. Based on the Gold Coast and passionate about Linux and open source, he brings a mix of hands-on implementation, developer tooling insight, and a long-running curiosity about the future of web technologies.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Information Technology, Bachelor of Business Information Technology at Swinburne University of TechnologyThe University of MelbourneBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computing Studies, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computing Studies at RMIT University
English
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Github Skills (25)
accessibility10
javascript10
accessibilityservice10
ui-components10
typescript10
rush10
build210
component-kit10
typescript-types10
monorepo10
acessibility10
nodejs10
typescripts10
fluentd10
react10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fluentui
Jun 2017 - Oct 2021
Fluent UI web represents a collection of utilities, React components, and web components for building web applications.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the enhancement of UI components within the Fluent UI React library. Their work included adding accessibility features such as the `aria-haspopup` and `ariaHidden` attributes to buttons and integrating new icons like "Comment" and "LikeSolid." They also addressed UI-related issues, such as ensuring coachmark layers correctly in the example page, and made styling adjustments. Their contributions focused on improving the usability and functionality of the library's React components.
fluentuireact-componentreact-componentsweb-componentsreact
microsoft/rushstack
Apr 2018 - Oct 2022
Monorepo for tools developed by the Rush Stack community
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the `rushstack` monorepo, focusing on enhancements and fixes related to versioning and build processes. Their work includes implementing logic to handle alternative versions within the dependency management system, modifying the version checking process, and fixing broken imports. Additionally, they applied specific headers when serving web bundles and addressed an eslint issue within the project. These changes touch upon core aspects of the build tooling and plugin functionality.
monoreporushtypescriptapiapi-extractor
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