Summary
Jens Riboe is a founder, CEO and CTO with over 20 years of hands-on software engineering experience and 16 years in senior leadership roles, based in Stockholm. He blends deep academic roots in computer architecture and language design with practical expertise across C, C++, Java/JavaEE, Erlang, Ada and modern JVM stacks like Groovy/Grails. Jens has led architecture and technical direction for cloud-deployed SaaS and enterprise projects, and today runs Ribomation providing focused, practitioner-level training for professional developers. Known as a language generalist and Java evangelist, he pairs rigorous engineering discipline with a taste for elegant, robust solutions. A former assistant professor turned consultant and technical lead, he brings rare breadth from telecom and real-time systems to web and performance engineering. Colleagues appreciate his ability to translate deep technical history into pragmatic, up-to-date practices for teams.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD* Computer architecture and language design, PhD* Computer architecture and language design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology