Richard Skogeby
Chief Executive Officer at Gastrogate AB
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Skogeby is a tech-driven CEO and former engineering lead with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack web and mobile products and leading small engineering teams. He progressed internally at Gastrogate AB from developer to Head of Engineering, Deputy CEO and now CEO, blending product ownership with deep technical fluency in React Native, TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS Lambda and Terraform. Earlier roles at Quantum Detectors and CERN show a strong background in scientific software, data analysis, firmware and microservices, demonstrating an ability to translate complex physical systems into scalable software. He holds an MSc in Engineering Physics and a Full Stack Nanodegree, reflecting both formal science training and practical modern web expertise. Based in Oxford, Richard pairs entrepreneurial optimism with pragmatic engineering, often moving between low-level device firmware and high-level cloud architectures. A not-obvious strength is his track record of integrating legacy scientific code and hardware control into modern microservice and web ecosystems, making him effective at bridging research and product.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree Full Stack Web Developer, Nanodegree Full Stack Web Developer at UdacityMaster of Science - MS Engineering physics, Master of Science - MS Engineering physics at Umeå UniversityMedical physics, Medical physics at Heidelberg University
English, Spanish, French, Swedish
Github Skills (27)
android10
frontend10
react-native9
javascript9
ios9
typescript9
expo9
mobile9
react9
web-framework8
app-framework7
detectors6
detector5
python5
solace4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rSkogeby/game-timer
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 review, 74 PRs, 47 pushes in 4 months
rSkogeby/dockerized-fastapi-redis-rq-task-queue
Jan 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:4 reviews, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 4 months
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