Paul Gildea
Senior Product Manager - Fluent UI React at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Gildea is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft with over 15 years focused on UI/UX, design systems, and developer platforms, currently leading the vision and growth of the open-source Fluent UI React library and Fluent Design System. He combines deep cross-platform experience—from C++/Win32 and C#/XAML to TypeScript/JS/HTML/CSS—with product-led execution to make consistent, accessible web experiences that boost developer productivity. At Microsoft he has driven technical strategy across Edge DevTools, WinUI/XAML virtualization, and the open sourcing of WinJS, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on shipping platform-level UI capabilities. Known for translating accessibility and theming requirements into practical SDKs and samples, he blends hands-on engineering empathy with metrics-driven product management. Based in Seattle and grounded in a Computer Software Engineering degree from RIT, he brings institutional knowledge of Microsoft’s UI ecosystem and a knack for turning legacy platform constraints into modern, reusable components.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (33)
javascript10
react-components10
react-component-library10
microsoft10
ui-components10
typescript10
web-components10
component-library10
fluentui10
office-ui-fabric10
react10
jekyll7
microsoft-edge7
diagnostics7
intellisense6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
paulgildea/fluentui-components
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:30 PRs, 26 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 2 months
paulgildea/fluentui-directory
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 4 days
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