Seth Donohue
Software Engineer at Highspot
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSeth Donohue is a user-experience focused software engineer based in Seattle with eight years of experience building polished front-end interfaces and design-system components. He specializes in TypeScript, React, and web components, contributing notable UX improvements to high-profile Microsoft open-source projects like Fluent UI and FAST. At Highspot and Microsoft he reduced experiential debt by shipping core components, fixing focus and styling bugs, and enabling realtime-configurable prototypes for product teams. His background in manufacturing and embedded systems gives him a pragmatic, test-driven approach to UI engineering and a knack for bridging hardware-minded rigor with delightful web experiences. Curious and collaborative, he pairs strong implementation skills with documentation and Storybook-driven workflows to make components fast, accessible, and reusable.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - Plastics Engineering and Vehicle Design Composites Manufacturing Design and Testing, Bachelor of Science - Plastics Engineering and Vehicle Design Composites Manufacturing Design and Testing at Western Washington UniversityFull Stack Software Development Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Software Development Computer Software Engineering at Code Fellows
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
react-components10
css10
typescript10
web-components10
ui-design10
react-component10
uid10
component-kit10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
fluentd10
react10
microsoft9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fast
Oct 2019 - Mar 2022
The adaptive interface system for modern web experiences.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:129 reviews, 28 commits, 56 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Seth primarily contributed to the development of React components within the `microsoft/fast` repository, focusing on the `fast-components-react-msft` package. Their work included adding features like looping to the carousel component and incorporating RTL support into progress bar animations. The user also made styling adjustments and added tests. Additionally, they worked on documentation through Storybook stories and UI adjustments.
litweb-componentsadaptivedevelopment-toolsweb-components-schemas
microsoft/fluentui
Aug 2020 - Oct 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:18 reviews, 17 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Seth primarily contributed to the `fluentui` repository by implementing and refining web components using web technologies. Their work focused on fixing bugs, ensuring correct styling, and adding new features to existing components such as text fields, buttons, accordions, select, and menus. The user updated styles, corrected focus states, added new examples and addressed visual inconsistencies to improve the user experience. They also collaborated on updating dependencies and incorporating new features.
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
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