Summary
Richard 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