Payne Richards
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPayne Richards is a web-focused software engineer with nine years of experience building front-end and full-stack applications, most recently contributing to Algolia after leading frontend teams at Codal. He combines a strong command of Angular, Ionic, JavaScript, Node.js, and PostgreSQL with experience in Ruby, C#, Unity, and data visualization libraries like D3 to solve diverse product problems. Comfortable spanning UI, API, and data layers, Payne has progressed from immersive full-stack training to mentoring and associate engineering leadership roles. Based in Chicago, he brings a practical, creative mindset—treating development as a toolbox for experimentation and elegant problem solving. A background teaching in a data analytics bootcamp and hands-on work across startups and agencies gives him both technical breadth and client-facing delivery experience.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at General Assembly
Github Skills (21)
widgets10
react-typescript10
instantsearch10
experiences9
algolia9
vue9
react9
typescript8
javascript8
search-engine8
boolean5
datatypes4
css-grid4
layout3
declarative-programming3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
paynerichards/barHopper
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
paynerichards/ballMaze
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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