Yimin Wu
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYimin Wu is a Principal Engineering Manager based in Bellevue with over a decade of experience leading front-end engineering at Microsoft, where he progressed from senior engineer to principal roles since 2009. He blends hands-on React and component design expertise with people and project leadership, driving improvements in usability, accessibility, and robustness across large-scale UI libraries. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed critical bugs and refactored core behavior in the widely used Microsoft Fluent UI project, improving components like DocumentCard, Checkbox, and Slider. His background includes a master's in computer science from UMass Amherst and early industry internships at Siemens Healthcare and MERL, signaling a long-standing focus on applied software engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces subtle regressions and trade-offs that others might miss, enabling smoother deliveries at scale.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (13)
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typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
component-kit10
fluentd10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
accessibility9
css8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
microsoft/fluentui
Mar 2016 - Jan 2019
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:5 reviews, 47 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Yimin primarily contributed to the front-end development of Fluent UI web components. Their work focused on fixing bugs related to component behavior, particularly addressing infinity loops and accessibility issues within the DocumentCard component. The user also improved the component's functionality by updating and refactoring its core elements, including props and styles. Furthermore, they made significant improvements to existing components, like Checkbox and Slider, resolving regressions and providing additional flexibility, like custom label rendering in the checkbox.
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
yiminwu/office-ui-fabric-react
Jul 2016 - Jan 2019
React components for building experiences for Office and Office 365.
Contributions:39 pushes, 51 branches, 2 tags in 2 years 5 months
reactoffice-365experiencesreact-componentsfor-office
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