Wendy Hsu is a seasoned front-end and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building performant, user-centered web experiences, now a Member of Technical Staff on Microsoft AI in Bellevue. She has driven end-to-end features like Copilot Daily and MSN podcast integrations, served as tech lead on mobile web performance, and created a suite of lightweight mobile components to improve UX and load times. Her background ranges from Figma plugin tooling and Node.js backends to data visualizations and Ruby on Rails admin portals, reflecting strong cross-stack fluency. An active contributor to Microsoft/FAST, she has improved web component behavior and benchmarked fast-element performance—showing a focus on both component correctness and measurable speedups. Colleagues rely on her pragmatic collaboration with designers and PMs to turn polished designs into robust, production-ready interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Political Science and Government, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Political Science and Government at The University of British Columbia
[Dropout] Master's degree International Business/Trade/Commerce, [Dropout] Master's degree International Business/Trade/Commerce at Yonsei University
The adaptive interface system for modern web experiences.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:9 reviews, 41 commits, 89 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Wendy primarily contributed to the `microsoft/fast` repository, focused on enhancing the web components. They fixed bugs related to event propagation in disabled buttons and updated the repeat directive. They also implemented and benchmarked new features within the fast-element library, including adding the "when" directive and observable benchmarks, as well as improving test coverage. These efforts show a focus on component behavior and performance optimization.
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Wendy Hsu - Member Of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI