L Mackrell
Technical Program Manager II at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolL Mackrell is a Technical Program Manager II at Microsoft with eight years of experience blending software development chops and cross-functional program leadership to improve language and accessibility experiences across Office and Windows. With a background spanning biology, legal services, and higher education program coordination, L brings rigorous research habits and user-centered design to technical programs and telemetry-driven feature decisions. Trained at Epicodus and active on GitHub (notably contributing front-end fixes and features to the widely used js-beautify project), they enjoy pair-coding and pragmatic full-stack work alongside PM responsibilities. Known for turning complex stakeholder requirements into clear specs, wireframes, and usability studies, L also served as Accessibility Driver for their team and helped modernize legacy UX through coordinated cross-team delivery. Based in downtown Seattle, they balance analytical rigor with a curiosity for odd natural history—ask them about the Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Biology / Marine Conservation, Bachelor’s Degree Biology / Marine Conservation at Seattle UniversityBachelor's degree English / Comparative Literature, Bachelor's degree English / Comparative Literature at Occidental CollegeCertificate Software Development, Certificate Software Development at Epicodus
Greek, Latin, ruby, javascript
Github Skills (5)
html10
css10
javascript10
user-interface10
json8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
beautifier/js-beautify
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Beautifier for javascript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 39 PRs, 64 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:L primarily contributed to the front-end development of the JavaScript beautifier. Their work involved refactoring the code by creating separate files for code previously within the index.html file, adding a language selector, and implementing features like an "open issue" button with templating and JSON options display. Additionally, the user addressed bugs related to HTML and CSS formatting and maintained the code by updating the copyright dates, and fixing an issue concerning whitespace.
beautifierpythoncssjavascriptnodejs
MacKLess/js-beautify
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Beautifier for javascript
Contributions:83 pushes, 36 branches in 5 months
javascriptbeautifier
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