Preston Richey
Senior Software Engineer at Slack
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPreston Richey is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building production web applications and leading engineering teams across startups and agencies in New York. He’s delivered high-impact front-end migrations and CMS integrations—most recently leading a Next.js/TypeScript accessibility-focused rewrite for Axios and now contributing at Slack. Comfortable across the full stack, Preston has driven performance wins (200%+ improvements on trading UI grids), launched developer documentation pipelines and client SDKs, and prototyped interactive hardware and web installations earlier in his career. He pairs hands-on engineering with people leadership—managing and hiring teams, running pair programming and tech talks—and brings a creative technologist’s curiosity rooted in both computer science and Latin American studies.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Latin American Studies, Latin American Studies at Universidad de BelgranoBachelor of Science - BS Spanish Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Spanish Computer Science at Missouri State University
Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
mailchimp-api-v310
testing10
bots10
browser10
firefox10
static-site-generator10
frontend10
sms10
mailchimp-api10
compiler10
facebook-messenger10
alexa-skills-kit10
auto-generate10
facebook10
chrome10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
prichey/prestonrichey.com
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
Personal website of Preston Richey
Contributions:258 commits, 15 PRs, 144 pushes in 5 years 4 months
decaprox/ofxVokaturi
Nov 2017 - Dec 2021
openFrameworks bindings for Vokaturi emotion recognition library (http://vokaturi.com/)
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 comment in 4 years 1 month
emotion-recognitionhttp-libraryemotionrecognitionopenframeworks
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