Kelly Gorr
Senior UX Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarKelly Gorr is a Senior UX Engineer based in Seattle with eight years of experience designing and shipping polished, accessible front-end experiences at Microsoft. She blends TypeScript, React, Next.js and CSS-in-JS to build Figma plugins, product prototypes (Loop, Copilot, Office/Outlook features), and public-facing sites like Microsoft Design 2023 while driving privacy, security, CI/CD and telemetry efforts. An active contributor to the popular Microsoft Fluent UI repo, she has improved calendar components, accessibility, and styling—demonstrating both component-level craft and system thinking. Kelly regularly shares her craft as a speaker on Figma plugin development and accessibility tooling, and she pairs rapid prototyping skills with production engineering to move ideas from concept to shipped product.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
component-kit10
ui-design10
react10
ui-components10
react-component9
office-ui-fabric9
react-components9
fluentd9
accessibility9
css8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fluentui
Aug 2017 - Feb 2018
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:24 commits, 31 PRs, 81 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kelly primarily contributed to the `Fluent UI` React components within the repository. Their work included implementing new features like customizing calendar navigation icons and adding week number functionality. They also focused on style updates and accessibility improvements, which shows a deep understanding of component styling and user experience. Further contributions show refactoring and bug fixes within existing Calendar components.
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
kellygorr/office-ui-fabric-react
Aug 2017 - Mar 2025
React components for building experiences for Office and Office 365.
Contributions:278 pushes, 63 branches, 55 tags in 7 years 8 months
reactoffice-365experiencesreact-componentsfor-office
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