Des Marks
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDes Marks is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building native mobile experiences for major platforms, currently helping bring Microsoft Office to Apple devices. He has deep iOS expertise demonstrated by significant contributions to microsoft/fluentui-apple—refactoring the CommandBar for mutable items, RTL support, custom views, and scroll-event delegation. Prior roles at Amazon and Microsoft reflect a track record of shipping product-facing features at scale, and early work as a developer and photo editor shows a blend of technical and creative problem solving. Collected experience across internships, teaching, and tooling deployments gives him a pragmatic approach to engineering trade-offs and cross-team collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at North Kitsap High SchoolBachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at Washington State University
Github Skills (7)
swift10
uikit10
ios10
cocoa9
accessibility9
ui-design8
appkit4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fluentui-apple
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
UIKit and AppKit controls for building native Microsoft experiences
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:1 release, 128 reviews, 17 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Des primarily contributed to the `microsoft/fluentui-apple` repository by making significant enhancements to the `CommandBar` component. Their work included refactoring the component to allow for mutable items and multiple leading/trailing items, and also added functionality to show a custom view within a CommandBarItem. Further contributions focused on improving the `CommandBar` implementation, including RTL support, adding an isHidden property, and providing the ability to receive notifications about when scroll events occur through a delegate.
fluentui-appleexperiencesiosappkituikit
nodes11/nodes11.github.io
Jun 2015 - Dec 2021
Contributions:88 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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