Richard Larcombe
Director Of Engineering at Learn Amp
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Larcombe is a seasoned engineering leader and former CTO who has spent two decades building web and mobile platforms across the UK and Bay Area startups, now leading engineering at Learn Amp. He blends hands-on experience from low-level C at Nokia to full-stack Ruby on Rails and mobile platform architecture, having shipped products in recruitment, learning engagement, and food ordering domains. Richard has a track record of founding and evolving platforms—pivoting Rise To into Learn Amp—and growing small teams into delivery-focused organisations. Trained as an aerospace engineer, he brings analytical rigor to product architecture and enjoys solving cross-domain technical challenges that bridge backend systems and user-facing experiences.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng) Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of Southampton
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Github Skills (19)
ruby-on-rails9
html8
ruby7
css7
rails7
mvc7
activerecord6
activeadmin6
scraper6
rspec6
devise6
jquery6
ssl6
faraday6
javascript6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rlarcombe/grabbit
Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:29 commits in 8 months
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learnamp/api-docs
Sep 2020 - Jul 2026
Beautiful static documentation for your API
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 PRs, 60 pushes in 5 years 10 months
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