Richard Hess
Principal Architect - UI UX at Shield Legal
Spokane, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Hess is a Principal UI/UX Architect with four decades of experience evolving interfaces from Lisp machines and SGI workstations to modern, spec-driven web and AI-assisted platforms. He specializes in declarative, inspectable systems—spec-first UIs, action–state patterns, and web components—that enable deterministic runtimes shared by humans and agents. Recent enterprise work built a YAML-driven UI platform orchestrated across multiple MCP servers, unifying portfolio-scale design systems and agent-driven workflows. Hands-on across React, Vue, Lit, Stencil, Tailwind, and Node, he pairs deep front-end expertise with a mechanical engineering background that informs resilient, failure-aware architecture. Based in Spokane, he focuses on roles at the intersection of AI tooling, MCP, and spec-driven UX and prefers remote opportunities. A lifelong learner, he brings rare continuity across decades of UI technology shifts and practical system-level thinking.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Github Skills (128)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
eswat2/wc-tinker
Dec 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:570 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
eswat2/s4e-autos
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
simple Svelte app which displays data retrieved from a GraphQL endpoint...
Contributions:729 commits, 4 PRs, 1060 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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