Billy Richardson
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBilly Richardson is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in the Greater Seattle Area with seven years of professional experience driving cloud and lifecycle engineering at Microsoft. He has progressed through hands-on engineering roles into leadership within One Engineering System and 1ES CloudTest, shepherding reliability and delivery for large-scale developer platforms. Billy combines a computer engineering foundation with practical full-stack experience from early freelance work to contributions in open-source projects like OctoPrint, where he improved UI text, refactored temperature displays, and added JavaScript unit tests. He brings a pragmatic focus on quality—unit testing and UI polish are consistent threads in his work—and a background that spans embedded sensor R&D and PCB design. Known for translating product needs into maintainable systems, he pairs technical depth with team coaching to accelerate delivery. An often-overlooked strength is his long-running habit of contributing small but high-impact improvements to community projects, showing attention to detail beyond headline features.
7 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and TechnologyMinor, Computer Science, Minor, Computer Science at South Dakota MinesDatabase Systems, Database Systems at North Dakota State University
Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
javascript10
qunit10
html9
octoprint8
3d-printer6
python4
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
OctoPrint/OctoPrint
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
OctoPrint is the snappy web interface for your 3D printer!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Billy primarily contributed to the OctoPrint project by fixing spelling issues in documentation and the UI. They also refactored the temperature display functionality, replacing the HTML entity degree symbol with the Unicode degree symbol. Furthermore, the user added unit tests for JavaScript helpers, specifically focusing on testing webcam URL validation, external host URL retrieval, and size formatting. These contributions improve the software's user interface and ensure the quality of the codebase.
3d-printeroctoprintpythonraspberry-pi
richardsondev/githubrepocloner
Jun 2023 - Jul 2026
Simple command-line tool that clones GitHub repositories of a specific organization to a local folder
Contributions:5 releases, 57 PRs, 62 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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