Natalie Ethell is a Software Engineer with a decade of experience building polished, user-focused web experiences and shipping features used by millions. Currently at Adobe after several impactful years at Microsoft, she led front-end work on Microsoft Lists, OneDrive, and SharePoint—helping deliver a new Lists UI to over 17 million scenarios and modernizing core rich-text and field experiences. A strong advocate for accessibility and UX, she contributes to Fluent UI (microsoft/fluentui), fixing ARIA issues and improving components like Breadcrumb and dropdowns used across Microsoft’s web apps. Beyond product work, she has a track record of mentoring interns and revamping developer documentation tooling, reflecting both technical depth and a penchant for developer experience.
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:145 commits, 268 PRs, 80 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Natalie primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of Fluent UI web components within the `microsoft/fluentui` repository. Their commits focused on fixing UI-related issues such as color inconsistencies, incorrect aria attributes and text wrapping, and ensuring accessibility, especially in dropdowns. Furthermore, the user added features and enhancements to existing components, including improvements to the `Breadcrumb` component by adding an optional aria label.
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