Levi Thomason is a Principal Software Architect with 12 years of experience designing and unifying large-scale front-end systems, currently leading the convergence of Microsoft’s web frameworks into Fluent UI. He blends deep hands-on engineering—authored core React components, async-refresh improvements for less.js, and modernized Node tooling—with strategic architectural leadership on Teams’ React rewrite. Based in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Levi is known for shipping pragmatic, testable UI libraries and improving developer experience across major open-source projects like Fluent UI and Open UI. He pairs technical mentorship and team-building with a history of product-focused delivery, from scaling MongoDB in startups to shepherding releases and CI for community tools. Outside the obvious, he brings a creative background in music and audio engineering, which informs a thoughtful, user-centered approach to UI and interaction.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Music, Music at North Idaho College
Audio Engineering, Audio Engineering at Spokane Falls Community College
Contributions:2 releases, 1795 commits, 1560 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Levi was primarily involved in developing and enhancing the user interface of the Semantic-UI-React library. They focused on implementing and updating various UI components like Accordion, Icon, and Form. The user’s work included both the creation of new components and the improvement of existing ones, such as fixing bugs, adding new props, and restructuring for better maintainability. The user also contributed to the documentation of the components.
Contributions:15 commits, 23 PRs, 29 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Levi focused on improving the project's release process and command-line interface. They implemented a more robust release script, incorporating checks for clean working directories and up-to-date branches before publishing new versions. Additionally, the user updated the CLI to pass interval options in seconds, fixing a bug. These modifications indicate a focus on build automation, version control, and deployment, demonstrating a DevOps skill set.
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Levi Thomason - Principal Software Architect at Microsoft