Richard Machielse is a CTO with 11 years of hands-on software engineering experience, leading the technology strategy at FeedbackFruits—a mission-driven EdTech scale-up—since 2016 after rising through its engineering ranks. Based in Amsterdam and grounded in a Computer Science degree from Delft, he blends product-focused leadership with deep frontend and web development roots from earlier roles. He’s comfortable shifting between hands-on development and scaling platform-level concerns, ensuring education-focused software meets both pedagogical and technical needs. A pragmatic technologist, he pairs startup velocity with academic rigour and has maintained long-term commitment to a single mission-driven company—a signal of both operational focus and domain expertise.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Minor, Minor at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Delft University of Technology
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