Kushal Yarlagadda
Software Engineer at Meta
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKushal Yarlagadda is a software engineer based in the New York City area with nine years of experience building fast, user-focused web experiences. Currently at Meta, he brings deep front-end expertise in React and component styling, with hands-on work migrating and refactoring UI components for large-scale libraries. His open-source contributions to Microsoft’s popular Fluent UI project demonstrate attention to cross-browser compatibility, accessibility (keyboard navigation), and precise visual behavior like focus and hover states. An IIT Kanpur computer science graduate with a 9.3 GPA, Kushal combines rigorous academic foundations with pragmatic engineering at scale. He excels at simplifying complex UI interactions and fixing subtle positioning and input-handling edge cases that improve everyday product polish.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, GPA: 9.3/10, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, GPA: 9.3/10 at IIT Kanpur
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
fluentui10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
checkbox9
context-menu9
combobox9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fluentui
Jul 2017 - Oct 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:26 commits, 32 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kushal primarily worked on migrating and styling React components within the Fluent UI web framework. They focused on refactoring existing components, such as the Checkbox and ComboBox, to utilize a Glamor-based styling package. The contributions involved implementing styling changes, including focus and hover states, addressing browser compatibility issues, and adapting component behavior with respect to user input. The user also made improvements to the Callout and ContextualMenu components, focused on addressing positioning issues and handling keyboard navigation.
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
whykushal93/office-ui-fabric-react
Jul 2017 - Nov 2019
React components for building experiences for Office and Office 365.
Contributions:157 pushes, 32 branches, 44 tags in 2 years 4 months
reactoffice-365experiencesreact-componentsfor-office
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