Johanna Hawkins
Principal Software Architect - Office Of The CTO - Executive AI Team at Microsoft
Renton, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohanna Hawkins is a Principal Software Architect with 11+ years at Microsoft, now leading Executive AI strategy in the Office of the CTO after a long tenure driving core messaging and Outlook web experiences. She blends deep front-end expertise—evidenced by contributions to the popular Fluent UI calendar component—with strong architecture and UX judgment across large, cross-functional teams. Johanna has repeatedly led migrations and feature crews to global releases, owning design, instrumentation, and on-call/process improvements that improved reliability and delivery. Her background spans full lifecycle delivery from prototyping to production monitoring, and she mentors engineers while formalizing design review and incident processes. A high-achieving engineer academically (MS and BS with near-perfect GPAs), she pairs rigorous technical craft with practical product sensibility. Colleagues know her for raising the bar on quality and for pragmatic enhancements that quietly improve user navigation and accessibility in widely used UI components.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, 3.98, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, 3.98 at Universidad de Puerto Rico
Github Skills (13)
typescript10
javascript10
component-kit10
typescripts10
calendar-view10
react10
calendar-widget10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
calendars10
react-component9
react-components9
fluentd9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fluentui
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
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:45 commits, 32 PRs, 25 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Johanna primarily contributed to the `fluentui` repository by implementing features related to the Calendar component. The contributions include adding support for different DateRange types (Day, Week, Month), incorporating the ability to hide the "Go to today" link, and supporting auto-navigation within the calendar. Additionally, the user made several minor fixes and addressed issues related to focus and navigation within the component.
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
johannao76/office-ui-fabric-react
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 30 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
reactoffice-365experiencesreact-componentsfor-office
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