Richard Conrad
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Vienna, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Conrad is a Staff Software Engineer with 20+ years of hands-on experience and eight years focused on web infrastructure and developer productivity, currently enabling flagship LinkedIn web teams. He specializes in tooling, libraries, CI/CD, and build systems that make large-scale web development faster and more reliable, with deep practical roots in Node, React, Java, and legacy enterprise stacks. Richard has led UI architecture and technical oversight for global teams, driving modularity, internationalization, accessibility, and performance across rich single-page apps and platform tooling. His background spans front-end, middle-tier, and low-level networking work from startups to IBM, giving him a unique ability to bridge legacy systems and modern developer workflows. He’s based in Vienna, Virginia, and known for quietly improving developer experience through robust, reusable infra rather than flashy product-facing features.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at California Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (31)
ember-cli9
command-line-utility9
syntax-highlighting9
emberjs8
ember8
javascript8
electron7
typescript7
exchange6
graphql5
editor5
hbs5
microsoft5
visual-studio-code5
caching4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
grconrad/vscode-binaries
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
VS Code binaries
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
textlintvscodevscode-extensionbinariesvs-code
grconrad/weighted-promise-pool
May 2021 - Jan 2026
Promise pool with caller-defined task weights
Contributions:1 release, 12 PRs, 30 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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