Savannah Bourgeois
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Greater Sacramento United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSavannah Bourgeois is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with seven years of professional experience and a Summa Cum Laude BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from Northeastern. She has progressed through individual contributor and leadership roles at Microsoft, shipping shared UI components for Office and contributing accessibility and UX improvements to the popular Fluent UI open-source library. Proficient in C++, Java, C#, SQL and front-end technologies, she blends hands-on implementation with team coaching to deliver robust, testable interfaces. Her background includes data- and ML-focused work at Intuit, where she helped prototype ML pipelines and build analytics distribution tools, showing a rare mix of product-facing analytics and interface engineering. Colleagues know her for improving keyboarding, high-contrast theming, and ARIA semantics—details that underscore a pragmatic commitment to inclusive, production-ready software.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude at Northeastern University
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
typescripts10
component-kit10
fluentd10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
ui-design9
accessibility9
testing8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
microsoft/fluentui
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
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:14 reviews, 14 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Savannah primarily contributed to the Fluent UI web repository, focusing on UI component enhancements and bug fixes. Their work included modifying dropdown and modal components, addressing keyboarding issues, and updating styles to support high contrast themes. They also added features like aria descriptions to contextual menu items and added UnitTests to SwatchColorPicker. The user's contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience and accessibility of UI elements.
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
SavannahBourgeois/office-ui-fabric-react
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
React components for building experiences for Office and Office 365.
Contributions:59 pushes, 18 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 6 months
reactoffice-365experiencesreact-componentsfor-office
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