Emily L
Principal UX Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolEmily L is a Principal UX Engineering Manager in Seattle with nine years of experience building delightful, accessible web experiences at Microsoft, currently leading UX engineering for OneDrive and SharePoint. She blends a people-first leadership style with hands-on front-end craft—contributing to high-profile open source work like Fluent UI to improve UI components, branding, and design-tool integrations. Emily focuses on scaling design systems and design-to-code workflows, harnessing AI to bridge design and engineering so teams can ship polished, consistent products for millions of users. Her background in landscape architecture and anthropology informs a systems-minded, human-centered approach to product design and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Landscape Architecture, Masters, Landscape Architecture at University of Colorado DenverB.A., Antropology, Global Development Studies, B.A., Antropology, Global Development Studies at Grinnell CollegeChinese Language Certification, Chinese Language Certification at Beijing Foreign Studies University
Chinese
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Github Skills (24)
ui-components10
web-components10
automatic-updates10
ui-design10
uid10
autoupdate10
component-kit10
front-end-development10
update-site10
updater10
fluentd10
live-update10
react10
sc9
scs9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fluentui
Aug 2017 - Dec 2019
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:132 commits, 306 PRs, 110 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Emily primarily worked on the front-end of the Fluent UI web component library, focusing on UI improvements and website updates. They removed a Trello reference and replaced it with a GitHub reference. The user updated branding guidance, and the Fabric Core CDN. They also addressed several visual bug fixes, including header position, link colors, and text alignment. Additionally, the user integrated the XD toolkit and its associated assets to the website, while ensuring text was presented in sentence case and updated references.
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
lynamemi/fluentui
Aug 2017 - May 2022
React components for building experiences for Office and Office 365.
Contributions:691 pushes, 332 branches in 4 years 9 months
reactoffice-365experiencesreact-componentsfor-office
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