Mark Polak
Principal Architect at Microsoft
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolMark Polak is a Principal Architect based in Oslo with 13 years of web engineering experience, currently shaping front-end architecture at Microsoft. He combines deep hands-on expertise in JavaScript, React and RxJS with a strong emphasis on code style, testing and long-term maintainability. Mark has worked across both front-end and back-end stacks on projects ranging from small apps to large platform rewrites, including significant contributions to the widely used Fluent UI React component library. His background includes leading teams and shipping core platform work for DHIS2 at the University of Oslo and founding product-focused ventures, showing a blend of enterprise and entrepreneurial experience. Known for pragmatic refactors and UI component craftsmanship, he quietly improves developer ergonomics as much as user-facing features.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of OsloBachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology at Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen
English, Dutch, German, Norwegian
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
react-components10
ui-components10
typescript10
react-component10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
jsx10
component-kit9
html6
jasmine6
dom6
angularjs6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fluentui
Jan 2018 - Jan 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:1 review, 60 commits, 85 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the development of Fluent UI web components, React components, and web components for building web applications, as indicated by the repository description and commit messages. The user's work involved implementing new features such as file type icon registration options and jsx key enabling, addressing issues by removing optional typings and fixing menu button behavior, and refactoring code to improve functionality and fix truncation issues. The contributions demonstrate expertise in UI component development and improvement within the context of a React-based UI library.
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
Markionium/office-ui-fabric-react
Jan 2018 - Jan 2020
React components for building experiences for Office and Office 365.
Contributions:2 PRs, 254 pushes, 60 branches in 2 years
reactoffice-365experiencesreact-componentsfor-office
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