# Star Richardson

> Senior Full Stack Software Engineer @ Replicated | React, TypeScript, Golang Developer

Location: Greater St. Louis, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/star

Senior full stack engineer with 4+ years of experience architecting scalable React/TypeScript applications, leading modernization initiatives, and collaborating closely with Product, Data, and Design to deliver intuitive, performant user experiences. Passionate about UI quality, accessibility, developer experience, and building reliable, maintainable systems across the stack to deliver clean and professional end products.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Replicated
Jan 2022 – Present
- Designed and built a new customer portal enabling Kubernetes-based app installations, improving end-customer install experience and laying the groundwork for future self-service workflows.
- Added pagination to Golang endpoints to improve P99 UI load times by 30%.
- Built new CRUD endpoints using Golang and MySQL while learning on the job, delivering critical features on time despite restricted team capacity.
- Developed design system architecture and reusable React component patterns, improving visual consistency and reducing duplicated UI effort across teams.
- Built rapid prototypes to validate UX flows with customers, accelerating feature discovery and reducing rework.
- Authored feature proposals outlining architecture, scope, and UX requirements, and led their iterative implementation.
- Improved onboarding for new engineers by updating and maintaining internal project documentation, reducing the amount of time it takes for new engineers to contribute code in their first week.
- Increased unit test coverage by 40% across 1,000+ components, and reduced CI runtime by 50% through optimized GitHub Actions pipelines and automated release note generation, improving confidence in UI releases.
- Modernized a large-scale React codebase to React 18, improving performance, maintainability, and developer efficiency.
- Integrated TypeScript into legacy JavaScript projects, improving code reliability and reducing runtime bugs.

### Software Engineer II @ Replicated
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer I @ This Dot, Inc
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
- Built and shipped Twilio SIGNAL’s event platform in under 6 months, supporting 10,000+ attendees.
- Collaborated with designers to deliver pixel-perfect UIs from Figma mockups with accessibility and responsiveness in mind.
- Developed shared GraphQL API endpoints used by 3 teams, serving 1M+ requests during conference events.
- Improved website accessibility across React and Vue projects, meeting WCAG compliance targets.
- Architected automated localization workflows using GitHub Actions, streamlining multilingual deployments.
- Presented on GraphQL DataLoaders at This Dot’s JavaScript Marathon, demonstrating strong communication and mentoring skills.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alicenstar
- GitHub: https://www.github.com/alicenstar
- Website: https://www.cointracker.me/

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Last updated: 2026-03-29