Joseph Richardson
Sr. Full Stack Engineer at United States Postal Service
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Richardson is a senior full-stack engineer based in San Jose with 11 years of experience building data-rich web and mobile applications, spanning React, TypeScript, Node, Python, GraphQL, and production GraphQL services. He combines deep expertise in semantic HTML, front-end performance and D3-style data visualizations with back-end system design and caching strategies that have reduced latency and request counts at scale. As a founder and volunteer leader he’s shipped multilingual civic tech and nonprofit platforms (including a prescreening system that supported citizenship workshops) and led AWS migrations and cost reductions. At SunPower and Apple-facing projects he drove GraphQL adoption, monitoring improvements, and rapid MVP delivery, often accelerating team onboarding through thorough documentation. Beyond coding, he leverages local AI tools for documentation and prototype generation, and has a track record of optimizing processes to boost team velocity and product impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityAssociate of Science (A.S.), Math, Physics, Computer Science, Associate of Science (A.S.), Math, Physics, Computer Science at Cuesta College
English
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Github Skills (116)
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open-government10
transparency10
immigration10
facebook10
javascript9
openstreetmap9
django9
ansible9
testing9
python9
elections9
mapbox-gl-js9
webpack9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
JMStudiosJoe/ReactPractice
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
React practice
Contributions:2 PRs, 125 pushes, 20 branches in 7 months
reactnodejswebpacktypescriptreactjs
codeforsanjose/SJPL-MealTally
Feb 2018 - Dec 2020
Web app to help San Jose public libraries coordinate free community meals.
Contributions:300 commits, 30 PRs, 167 pushes in 2 years 10 months
djangojosecoordinate-freemealssan-jose
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