Michael Richardson
Senior User Experience Engineer at Google
Leander, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Richardson is a Senior User Experience Engineer with five years of professional experience blending front-end engineering, accessibility, and developer relations at Google. He brings a rare combination of product-minded UX research (Master’s in HCI) and hands-on full-stack implementation, evidenced by contributions to Google's codelabs tooling that improved rendering, metadata handling, Unicode support, and accessibility. Prior to Google he founded and ran a small app studio that shipped 60+ Windows apps, giving him practical experience in end-to-end product development, publishing, and entrepreneurship. His background includes internships and engineering roles at YouTube, Microsoft programs, and web-focused positions where he built cloud-backed apps, scheduling interfaces, and data parsing libraries. Fluent in Portuguese from a two-year mission in Mozambique, he pairs cross-cultural communication skills with technical mentorship and developer advocacy. Based in Leander, Texas, he is a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges design, code, and developer experience to make complex tooling more usable.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado, Interacção Homem Computador, Mestrado, Interacção Homem Computador at Universidade da MadeiraEarly College High School, 3.9 GPA, Early College High School, 3.9 GPA at Utah County Academy of SciencesMaster's Degree, Human Computer Interaction, Master's Degree, Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon UniversityAssociate of Science (AS), Integrated Studies, 3.8 GPA, Associate of Science (AS), Integrated Studies, 3.8 GPA at Utah Valley University
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (7)
go10
html9
markdown-it8
markdown8
parse8
front-end-development8
parsing8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
googlecodelabs/tools
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
Codelabs management & hosting tools
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:62 reviews, 104 commits, 105 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the Codelabs management and hosting tools, focusing on the codebase related to rendering, parsing, and templating. They made several improvements to the rendering of codelab metadata and added features for handling metadata such as authors, duration, and source. Furthermore, the user made changes to improve unicode handling and accessibility aspects within the front-end elements of the project.
hostingcodelabs
gonexwind/tools
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Codelabs management & hosting tools
Contributions:4 commits in 1 day
hostingcodelabs
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