Elizabeth Craig
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElizabeth Craig is a software engineer with 11 years of experience based in the Greater Seattle area, currently building tools and UI at Microsoft. She contributes across the full stack—improving Git integration, publishing workflows, and TypeScript React components—and has meaningful open-source impact on high-profile repos like rushstack, Fluent UI, and DefinitelyTyped. Her work blends backend reliability (Git worktree handling, auth tokens) with front-end polish (TextField/ComboBox fixes, Office UI Fabric), showing a knack for bridging developer tooling and user-facing components. A former teaching assistant and research assistant with a CS degree from the University of Oklahoma, she pairs practical production engineering with a history of mentoring and documentation improvements. An understated strength is her attention to developer experience: she often focuses on small but high-leverage fixes that improve maintainability and readability across large monorepos.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Oklahoma
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
git10
static-typing10
javascript10
component-development10
css10
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
ui-design10
type-definition10
uid10
build210
optional-typing10
dts10
front-end-development10
strong-typing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fluentui
May 2016 - Jun 2022
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:31 releases, 2569 reviews, 859 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Elizabeth primarily focused on developing and improving UI components using React and TypeScript within the Fluent UI library. Their contributions included fixing bugs and resolving versioning issues, enhancing existing components such as the TextField and ComboBox, and improving example rendering. The user also worked on incorporating the React-Monaco-Editor and its corresponding functionality into the Fluent UI React library.
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
microsoft/beachball
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
The Sunniest Semantic Version Bumper
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 291 reviews, 160 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Elizabeth primarily focused on improving the formatting and structure of the package list and change files within the `beachball` project. They refactored code, adjusted the output for enhanced readability, and integrated changes from the master branch. Additionally, the user addressed formatting issues and inferred commit hashes, thereby improving the overall quality of the project's code and documentation.
yarnsemversemantic-versioningversioningbumper
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