Kisha Richardson
Founder CEO at Stealth Startup
Earth, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKisha Richardson is a founder, engineering leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building products that bridge operations, logistics and creative economies. She moved from investment banking into software, teaching herself Rails to build Seed It and later launching and scaling cleanME across San Francisco, Oakland and New York while leading product and engineering. Kisha has led backend and API work at startups and scaleups (Habit, Particle) and most recently managed AI engineering initiatives at GitLab, combining product strategy with hands-on implementation in JavaScript, Ruby and emerging Rust/Axum. She also founded Culture Purveyor to design systems and physical spaces that increase prosperity and ownership for artisans and experience makers, winning the NOEW 2023 Mayors Tech Innovation Pitch. Known for applying Lean Sigma logistics thinking to “unsexy” markets, she pairs data-driven decision science and customer segmentation expertise with a passion for inner-city STEM and neighborhood-level economic revitalization.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Economics & Statistics, Economics & Statistics at Columbia UniversitySoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at Recurse Center
Github Skills (17)
jwt-authentication9
placement9
passport-jwt9
javascript8
jwt7
authentication7
open-source6
ruby6
mongoose6
expressjs5
postgresql5
nodejs4
backend4
mongodb4
web-development2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kisha/node-auth-jwt-mongodb-
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Node Auth JWT MongoDB Example for Engineer Mentees
Contributions:8 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
expressjsauthenticationexpressjwt-authnodejs
kisha/authentication-passport-jwt-strategy-postgresql
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Authentication Example using Passport + JWT Strategy + Postgresql + Knex
Contributions:28 commits, 13 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years 2 months
authenticationstrategypassport-jwtjwt-authenticationknex
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