Marija Najdova
Senior Engineering Manager at MUI
North Macedonia
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Marija Najdova is a Senior Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience leading and shipping front-end solutions, currently steering core teams at MUI on widely used open-source React component libraries. She combines hands-on engineering—contributing to flagship projects like MUI X and Microsoft Fluent UI—with people leadership, improving developer experience, accessibility, and responsive UI behavior. Her work spans component design, refactors to remove brittle dependencies, and writing demos and tests that raise quality across large ecosystems. Previously at Microsoft she helped evolve Fluent UI used in Teams, bringing enterprise-scale product thinking to open source. Based in North Macedonia, she blends deep UI expertise with a track record of turning subtle UX issues into robust, well-documented components.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering
English, Macedonian
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testing10
css10
typescript10
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uid10
component-kit10
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typescript-types10
jtest10
datagrid10
fluentui10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mui/material-ui
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:52 releases, 6046 reviews, 500 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Marija primarily contributed to the documentation of the MUI library, updating and improving existing documentation for various components, including the Slider and the use of CSS variables, as well as the "Material You" theme integration. Their work included creating demos and code examples to show how to use the components and theme with Tailwind CSS. They also addressed accessibility issues and fixed various bugs, ensuring proper display and functionality of the MUI components.
reactmuimaterialjavascriptmaterial-design
microsoft/fluentui
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
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:55 reviews, 60 commits, 171 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Marija primarily worked on enhancing and refactoring UI components within the Fluent UI web library. Their contributions focused on removing dependencies, such as hard icon dependencies, and improving the structure and styling of components like `MenuItem`, `AccordionTitle`, `ToolbarMenuItem`, `Dropdown`, `Checkbox`, and `Avatar`. They also implemented new features such as the square prop on the Avatar component. Their work involved code modifications across multiple files, including component definitions, styling, and testing suites.
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
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