Bryan Watts
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryan Watts is a Software Engineer II with eight years of experience building responsive, performant web applications for large-scale consumer products at Microsoft. Based in Redmond, he has driven measurable improvements to OneDrive’s web experience—integrating the Monaco editor, migrating legacy Knockout code to React, and reducing initial page load times. He contributes to high-profile open-source work on Microsoft’s Fluent UI library, focusing on accessibility, layout stability, and context-aware component behavior. Earlier roles include architecting a cloud-powered IVR designer and desktop WPF tooling, giving him a strong full-stack and UI-centric background. Known for pragmatic performance optimizations and thoughtful front-end engineering, he blends deep component-level expertise with systems-thinking across web and cloud stacks.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
3.75, 3.75 at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
component-kit10
office-ui-fabric10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
accessibility9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
microsoft/fluentui
Oct 2017 - Jul 2018
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:9 commits, 15 PRs, 7 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily contributed to the Fluent UI web components library, focusing on improving the user interface and component functionality. Their commits include fixing bugs related to state updates and layout, adding new features such as a way to force layout updates in ScrollablePane, and improving the styling and accessibility of existing components. The user also worked on implementing context-aware functionality within the ResizeGroup component.
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
brwatt/office-ui-fabric-react
Nov 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:22 pushes, 15 branches in 4 years 7 months
reactoffice-365experiencesreact-componentsfor-office
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