Kristen Schau
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristen Schau is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with over a decade of professional experience and four years in her current senior role at Microsoft. She specializes in front-end and full-stack work for Windows UI components, notably contributing to the WinUI WebView2 implementation and UWP AdaptiveCards renderers to improve navigation, rendering consistency, and test coverage. Her background includes long-term development on IBM’s TPF Toolkit, giving her deep familiarity with maintaining and evolving complex, legacy systems. At Microsoft she has focused on practical refactors and robustness—fixing non-ASCII URI handling and collapsed-webview interactions—demonstrating attention to edge cases that often evade automated tests. Kristen pairs a BA in Computer Science from Vassar with a pragmatic engineering approach that balances user-facing polish and underlying reliability. Colleagues would describe her as a thoughtful problem-solver who improves developer and user experiences through small, high-impact changes.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Vassar College
Github Skills (16)
uwp10
adaptive-cards10
winui10
renderer10
webview10
xaml10
dotnet-core10
testing10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
windows9
javascript8
html8
csharp8
desktop7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
WinUI: a modern UI framework with a rich set of controls and styles to build dynamic and high-performing Windows applications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 32 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Kristen primarily contributed to the WebView2 component within the WinUI framework, a modern UI framework for Windows applications. Their work focused on improving WebView2's functionality, including fixing navigation issues with non-ASCII URIs and addressing interactions with collapsed webviews. The user also implemented and updated several tests to ensure functionality and reliability, while also making improvements to the underlying JavaScript and HTML assets that are used for testing and demonstration.
windows-10wpfwindows-app-sdkuwpuwp-apps
microsoft/AdaptiveCards
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
A new way for developers to exchange card content in a common and consistent way.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:35 reviews, 44 commits, 35 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kristen primarily worked on the UWP Renderer, modifying code to ensure consistency in the handling of namespaces and the use of helper functions. They focused on refactoring the code base, simplifying inclusions, and improving the rendering of images and containers. The user's commits included changes to the AdaptiveImageRenderer, AdaptiveColumnSetRenderer and AdaptiveCardRendererComponent, indicating a focus on UI component structure and styling.
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