Elise Richards
Android Software Engineer at GitHub
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolElise Richards is an Android software engineer with 7 years of experience building user-facing mobile apps and platform services, currently at GitHub in San Francisco. She spent several years at Mozilla contributing to Firefox for Android, Lockwise, and the android-components ecosystem, where she focused on PWA features, telemetry, and onboarding improvements. Elise also worked full‑stack on Mozilla’s Nimbus experimentation platform, touching Django, React, Rust SDKs, and Kotlin/Swift platform integrations for A/B rollouts. Her background includes backend test automation and feature-matching logic for application services, showing a strong emphasis on correctness and maintainability. Notably, she has contributed to high-profile open-source projects used by millions of users, adding telemetry and lifecycle analytics that improved product insights. Practical, detail-oriented, and cross-functional, she blends mobile UX sensibility with backend and tooling experience.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Mills College
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Github Skills (48)
kotlin10
unit-testing10
edelivery10
testing10
progressive-web-apps10
continuous-delivery10
ui-design10
android-development10
uid10
front-end-development10
android10
pwapp10
rust10
telemetry10
react10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla-mobile/fenix
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
⚠️ Fenix (Firefox for Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:435 reviews, 134 commits, 365 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Elise primarily focused on improving the user interface and functionality of the Firefox Android app. Contributions include relocating UI elements within the account preferences, updating the AppCompat library, and implementing and refactoring features related to login management, such as the ability to edit and delete saved logins, which involved creating new views, menu options, and associated telemetry. The user also implemented enhancements for various onboarding experiences, including new telemetry events for PWA features.
firefoxbrowserandroidfirefox-for-androidmozilla
mozilla/experimenter
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
A web application for managing user experiments for Mozilla Firefox.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:530 reviews, 32 commits, 367 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Elise primarily contributed to the Mozilla Experimenter web application, focusing on both frontend and backend aspects. Their work included fixing bugs, adding new features such as the reporting CSV frontend, and refactoring existing code for rollouts. They also worked on adding isRollout to the v6 API, cloning rollouts, and enhancing the user interface for experiment management. Furthermore, they implemented the audience page and made it accessible on the sidebar.
firefoxproduct-deliveryweb-applicationmozillamozilla-firefox
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