Richard Lindsey
Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian
McAllen, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Lindsey is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on programming experience and more than a decade in senior engineering roles, currently shaping front-end and platform architecture at Atlassian. He blends deep expertise in JavaScript ecosystems (Node, React, Backbone) with strong backend and database skills spanning SQL, NoSQL, and performance tuning, and has a track record of building internal frameworks and APIs that scale. A longtime advocate for front-end architecture, he has led platform initiatives, authored NodeJS middle tiers, and mentored engineering teams across consumer and enterprise products. Comfortable across legacy and modern stacks—from Apple IIe BASIC and Turbo Pascal to contemporary frameworks—he brings pragmatic engineering judgment and a penchant for polymorphic, maintainable code. Based in McAllen, Texas, he’s the kind of engineer who quietly prototypes blueprints for company-wide adoption while still admitting he has “too much JavaScript on the brain.”
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Network and System Administration/Administrator, Network and System Administration/Administrator at ITT Technical Institute-AustinAssociate, Computer Networking Systems, Associate, Computer Networking Systems at ITT Technical Institute - Austin, TX
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Github Skills (63)
cypress10
svelte-testing-library10
javascript10
angular-testing-library10
grid-control10
webpack10
vue-testing-library10
testing-library10
react-testing-library10
component-testing10
nodejs10
react10
testing9
coffeescript9
amd9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Velveeta/bv-ui-core
Dec 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:38 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 1 month
node-modulejavascriptnodejs
Velveeta/tutorial-sharing
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 day
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