Rich Bachman
Senior Design Technologist at Fivetran
Wichita, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolRich Bachman is a Senior Design Technologist with eight years focused on building accessible, component-driven design systems and scalable CSS for React-based products. Based in Wichita, he has led design system initiatives at Fivetran, Twilio (Paste), SendGrid and PaySimple, shipping themed component libraries, documentation sites, and token systems that improved consistency and reduced support load. He blends a visual design background (BFA/Graphic Design) with hands-on front-end engineering, enabling tight collaboration between designers and developers. Notably, his open-source work includes front-end contributions to Twilio SendGrid’s widely used docs repo, enhancing UI and UX across developer-facing documentation. He’s especially skilled at turning design intent into reusable, accessible components that scale across product and marketing surfaces.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of KansasBFA, Graphic Design, BFA, Graphic Design at Wichita State University
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Github Skills (15)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sendgrid/docs
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
Repository of Twilio SendGrid's product documentation.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:96 commits, 30 PRs, 53 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Rich primarily contributed to the front-end development of the SendGrid documentation website. Their work focused on styling and UI improvements, including updating home page styles, adding icons to resource cards, and implementing a developer callout section. The commits demonstrate proficiency in React, particularly in modifying existing components and creating new ones to enhance the user interface and overall user experience.
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sendgrid/design-primitives
Dec 2018 - Aug 2019
SendGrid design primitives
Contributions:90 commits, 24 PRs, 46 pushes in 8 months
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