Luke Ribchester
Founder at Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolLuke Ribchester is a founder and software engineer based in Delft with a decade of experience building production software, from industrial network tools to airline crew scheduling and healthcare integrations. He leads LGR.DEV and recently founded Kegari Labs, where he focuses on digital signal processing and Rust development—bringing research-grade DSP into practical engineering. His background spans cloud systems, security research at Thales, and hands-on product work at ING and KLM, combining stakeholder-driven product design with low-level technical craft. An invited open-source contributor to Kadena, he has implemented language tooling (BNF grammar, lexer/parser, and IntelliJ assistance), showing a taste for developer experience and formal language work. He also participates in journalistic innovation via a national incubator, reflecting a curiosity for interdisciplinary impact beyond traditional engineering roles.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computing and IT, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computing and IT at The Open UniversityFull Stack Web Developer Nanodegree, Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree at Udacity
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (47)
intellij-idea10
intellij-plugin10
intellij9
intellij-platform9
monorepo8
extensible8
cli8
angular8
react8
javascript8
nodejs8
cypress7
build-system7
typescript7
kadena7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lukeribchester/pact-intellij
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 28 commits in 5 months
intellij-platformpactkadenalanguage-supportintellij-plugin
tessagreiner/tessagreiner.art
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:39 commits, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
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