Michael Thomas Richards


Frontend / UI Engineer
Los Angeles, California

I'm a UI engineer with over a decade of full-time experience that spans from seed-stage startups to publicly traded companies. I take pride in developing simple, easy-to-use, scalable components, and love all things typography. I believe users are the greatest stakeholders, and currently apply my craft on the Design Systems & Libraries team at GoodRx.

When I'm not in front of the screen, I'm busy being a devoted husband, dog parent and golf enthusiast in Los Angeles, CA. I may also have been a Wheel of Fortune champion at some point in my life.

Experience

2020-Present

Senior Frontend Engineer at GoodRx

Los Angeles & Remote

As a part of the Design Systems and Libraries team, I help create reusable components consumed by the entire organization, so that we can spend less time making tech debt and more time helping Americans find affordable healthcare solutions.

2019-2020

Senior Frontend Engineer at Tradesy

Los Angeles & Remote

Our small-but-powerful frontend team helped bring the vision of sustainable fashion to life, migrating a legacy codebase onto React and increasing the performance of our ecommerce platform in the process.

2017-2019

Senior Frontend Engineer at Purple Squirrel

Los Angeles

As the sole frontend engineer at Purple Squirrel, I designed, engineered and maintained our user-facing sites and products, helping HR teams find qualified candidates, while helping candidates get their feet in the door at their dream companies.

2014-2016

Frontend Engineer at eHarmony

Los Angeles

I was responsible for engineering, testing, and optimizing our registration funnels, and hopefully helping others find love in the process. While not confirmed, I'll venture that I was responsible for at least one marriage in my time there.

2012-2014

Frontend Engineer at Wantickets

Los Angeles

EDM was a big deal in the early 2010s. At my time at Wantickets, I designed and overhauled their mobile shopping experience, while allowing our partner clubs access to the custom ticketing platform via personalized homepage consultancy.

Contact

LinkedIn
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