Marius Tennøe is a Principal Software Engineer based in Oslo with 11 years of professional experience at Microsoft, progressing from intern to principal since 2011. He specializes in front-end engineering and UI component design, contributing to high-impact open source projects such as Microsoft’s Fluent UI—where he improved Persona and DocumentCardImage components to enhance visual polish and image-handling robustness. Known for shipping pragmatic, user-focused improvements, he blends deep product understanding with hands-on implementation across large-scale web apps. His MSc in Computer Science from Universitetet i Oslo underpins a methodical approach to architecture and developer experience. Colleagues value him for translating subtle UX needs into reliable, reusable components that scale across teams.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at Universitetet i Oslo (UiO)
Fluent UI web represents a collection of utilities, React components, and web components for building web applications.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:18 reviews, 9 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Marius primarily contributed to the UI component library Fluent UI, specifically working on the Persona component. Their work included reserving and customizing colors in the PersonaCoin palette and adding a callback to handle image loading state changes within the Persona component. They also introduced a simpler DocumentCardImage component, adding new functionality and improved existing ones. These modifications reflect a focus on enhancing the visual elements and user experience of the Fluent UI library.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 83 commits in 5 years 2 months
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Marius Tennøe - Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft