Richard Bettridge
Chief Product Officer at Mirsee Robotics Inc.
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorRichard Bettridge is a product-focused technology leader and founder with 11 years in senior engineering and product roles, now serving as Chief Product Officer at Mirsee Robotics. He blends hands-on expertise across software, hardware, firmware, IoT, distributed systems and devops with a disciplined product mindset that emphasizes asking the right questions, rapid prototyping, and pragmatic trade-off analysis. Previously he led software engineering at Vehikl building enterprise-grade digital-twin tools and founded The Old Net to reconnect vintage computers to the modern internet—a project that illustrates his knack for bridging legacy and cutting-edge systems. His background in large-scale capacity planning, performance engineering and real-time 3D/VR development gives him rare fluency from infrastructure to UX. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous customer needs into practical, testable roadmaps that balance time, cost and operational risk.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
mojolicious10
internet10
connected10
fiddler10
modem10
azerothcore10
sega10
legacy-browsers10
television10
native-android10
vintage10
esp826610
raspberry10
arduino10
wifi10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
ssshake/vintage-computer-wifi-modem
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
TheOldNet.com WIFI Modem Emulator
Contributions:55 commits, 9 PRs, 60 pushes in 2 years
modemwifi
ssshake/retro-computing-internet-resources
Jul 2021 - Aug 2022
A list of the various projects to get vintage computers connected to the internet
Contributions:2 reviews, 90 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year
vintageazerothcorevintage-computersfiddlerconnected
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