Elizabeth Samuel
Dev Writer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarElizabeth Samuel is a Dev Writer at Microsoft in Redmond with nine years of experience translating complex developer APIs into clear, usable guidance. She combines full-stack engineering chops with technical writing, contributing practical code fixes and feature work to high-profile open-source projects like DefinitelyTyped and OfficeDev/script-lab, particularly around Outlook/office-js integrations. Her contributions show a focus on interoperability—implementing categories, timezone handling, session data, and attachment/internet header support—paired with pragmatic fixes and workarounds that improve developer experience. Comfortable editing code, configuration, and documentation alike, she bridges engineering and docs to ensure samples and snippet pipelines point to the right branches and environments. Colleagues rely on her ability to spot subtle API issues and deliver both code and communication that make developer tools more reliable and discoverable.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
event-handling10
office-addin10
typescript-types10
apidoc9
api9
code-editor9
git8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OfficeDev/script-lab
Aug 2018 - Jan 2021
Create, run and share your code directly from Office
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Elizabeth primarily contributed to the `script-lab` repository by updating branch names and modifying the code responsible for fetching samples. These changes involved updating the base URL for retrieving snippets, affecting the environment configuration to use the correct branch (main or prod). They also ran prettier to format the code.
typescriptoffice-addinsharecode-editorscript-lab
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:273 reviews, 311 commits, 673 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Elizabeth made multiple contributions related to the `office-js` library, primarily focused on the Outlook integration. The commits demonstrate the user's focus on implementing features like supporting categories, the time zone, and the session data of the item. They also tackled tasks like adding event handlers, and working on the `AttachmentDetails`, and `InternetHeaders` and properties of the Mailbox. Additionally, the user fixed issues related to the API and included a note of workarounds regarding the usage of the API.
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