Mike Wheaton is a UX-focused front-end engineer with 11 years of experience building design systems and production React apps, currently consulting from San Antonio to help startups and enterprises scale consistent UI engineering practices. At Microsoft he helped create and evolve the Fabric/Fluent UI system, led OneDrive front-end efforts that boosted signups and app downloads, and implemented large-scale accessibility, performance, and GDPR work. He specializes in design-engineering bridges—prototyping through production—using React, TypeScript, Storybook, and component-based CSS to free engineers from styling toil. As an open-source contributor to Fluent UI and Office UI Fabric Core, he’s fixed theming, dark mode, and icon tooling issues that improve developer and designer workflows. Clients praise his attention to detail and his ability to turn design intent into resilient, scalable UI components.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Technology, Computer Systems Technology at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Informatics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Informatics, Computer Science at Dalhousie University
The front-end CSS framework for building experiences for Office and Microsoft 365.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:34 releases, 478 commits, 446 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mike's contributions primarily revolve around front-end development within the Office UI Fabric Core framework. They focused on updating and modifying icon-related components, including icon classes and documentation for the icon library. The user also made changes to documentation, incorporating example text, and updating the documentation header. Further contributions include integrating the Selawik font and general UI improvements.
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:79 commits, 275 PRs, 207 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the Fluent UI web component library by implementing and modifying UI elements and related documentation. They worked on styling and theming, creating dark mode variants and maximizing the frame of images to fit parent elements. The user also addressed issues like focus border positioning and component theming, demonstrating expertise in UI design and theming using React.
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