Bernardo Sunderhus is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building accessible, user-centered front-end experiences, currently improving Teams and partner surfaces at Microsoft. He specializes in accessibility engineering—focus management, keyboard navigation, and screen-reader support—and has driven cross-client integrations like Copilot/App Chat for desktop and web clients. Bernardo pairs deep front-end craftsmanship (TypeScript, React, Fluent UI) with practical tooling work, contributing developer-focused enhancements to the popular floating-ui project. He has a history of mentoring engineers, both professionally and at Green Fox Academy, and brings a pragmatic approach to preventing regressions through triage and documentation. Based in Prague and holding a Computer Science degree from Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, he blends product empathy with implementation rigor to make collaboration software more inclusive.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
A JavaScript library to position floating elements and create interactions for them.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:5 reviews, 15 PRs, 50 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Bernardo primarily focused on enhancing the developer tools for the `floating-ui` library. Their work involved migrating components, refactoring, and integrating devtools into the project. They made modifications to the extension's UI, data visualization components, and configurations, and they made changes related to type definitions. The user also addressed code quality by fixing errors and improving messaging.
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches, 2 comments in 4 years
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Bernardo Sunderhus - Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft