JÂ Layne
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJ Layne is a Principal Product Manager in Seattle with 13 years of experience blending product strategy, AI, UX design, and software engineering to ship platform-scale experiences at Microsoft and in startups. He led UX and platform work for Office Copilot, Fluent Design, and React Native developer tooling, enabling partners to deliver dozens of features to millions of users and cutting delivery time from months to hours. Equally comfortable building prototypes in code and rallying cross-functional teams, he accelerates product delivery by demonstrating technical feasibility and integrating design systems into production. Outside Microsoft he helped scale an early-stage health startup to market validation at CES, reflecting a knack for turning research into customer-facing products. He prioritizes growing people and teams as a pathway to better products, combining hands-on technical craft with product-led growth expertise for Office and Microsoft 365.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The Westminster SchoolsMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
Github Skills (25)
react-component-library10
react-native10
react-native-component10
component-library10
fluent-design10
fluentui10
office-ui-fabric10
react10
ui-components9
microsoft9
react-components9
javascript9
web-components9
typescript9
styles6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ejlayne/fluentui-react-native
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
A react-native control library aligned with office-ui-fabric-react
Contributions:18 PRs, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
ui-fabricreactoffice-ui-fabric-reactfabricreact-native
ejlayne/fluentui
Apr 2020 - May 2020
We've moved! UI Fabric is now Fluent UI - A set of React components for building Microsoft web experiences.
Contributions:14 PRs, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
ui-fabricreactfabricfluent-uiexperiences
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