Kai Richardson
Software Engineer at Volunteer
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Richardson is a software engineer in Portland, Oregon with nine years of experience building scalable front-ends, integrations, and DevOps solutions. At Trimble he architects ERP integrations and a Stencil-based web component UI framework while designing CI/CD and monitoring workflows that modernize legacy systems and reduce support effort. He also leads a large open-source videogame community, merging hundreds of PRs monthly, building an in-house React framework, a custom game language/engine, and using Rust for performance-critical systems. Kai combines hands-on implementation—APIs, responsive UIs, Terraform proofs-of-concept, and synthetic monitoring—with community-focused maintainer practices that streamline contributor onboarding. He blends academic rigor (BS in Computer Science, 3.59) with practical ops experience from internships to production deployments. Rare among engineers, he pairs deep integration and DevOps expertise with sustained OSS leadership in a high-velocity collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.59, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.59 at University of PortlandHigh School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, 4.182, Valedictorian, High School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, 4.182, Valedictorian at King Kekaulike High School
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (106)
pixel-editor10
gif-animation10
windows10
animated10
dm10
cpp10
animation10
linux10
aseprite10
space10
draw10
electron10
2d-game10
pixel10
macos10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Kai-Richardson/kairichardson-backend-old
Apr 2019 - Jul 2021
Full Repo for my personal website
Contributions:3 PRs, 39 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
reactnextjs
Kai-Richardson/Kai-Richardson.github.io-old
Apr 2019 - Sep 2021
My website, now with a backend!
Contributions:2 PRs, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
javascriptnodejsbackend
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