Richard Bustos
Bay Area Realtor at TurboHome
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Bustos is a Bay Area Realtor and former frontend engineer turned Developer Advocate with about 4 years of professional engineering and developer-relations experience, now applying tech-savvy product instincts to real estate in San Francisco. He has led developer relations efforts at MUI—contributing UI/UX improvements to a widely used Material UI library and launching community channels that quickly grew to 1k+ members—and has built developer communities and content at companies like XMTP Labs, Wix, and Cookbook. Equally comfortable writing demos, managing social outreach, and shipping frontend features, Richard blends design-system sensibilities with hands-on engineering. Outside work he’s an avid jiu-jitsu practitioner, food content creator, and a vocal advocate for financial freedom, mindfulness, and fitness—interests he often weaves into his community-building and educational work. Known for curiosity and constant learning, he brings a practical, people-focused approach to both tech and real-estate challenges.
4 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
General Education, General Education at Skyline CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Stanford University
Stackoverflow
2,960reputation
818kreached
1answer
42questions
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
react-components10
react-component10
material-design10
react10
system-design9
system9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
babeljs6
create-react-app6
css-animations6
npm-install6
css6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mui/material-ui
May 2023 - Aug 2023
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:57 reviews, 13 PRs, 84 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the front-end of the MUI (Material UI) React component library. Their work included adding a new team member to the "About" page, linking the MUI X Stack Overflow in the footer, and updating demo footers. The user also contributed by adding a Discord link to the footer and updating the charting examples. Their work demonstrates a focus on UI/UX enhancements and integration of new features within the documentation and marketing pages.
reactmuimaterialjavascriptmaterial-design
richbustos/richbustos.github.io
Nov 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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