Rick Kleinhans
Co-Founder CTO at Nile
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolRick Kleinhans is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building full‑stack products that scale, currently serving as Co‑Founder and CTO of Nile, a B2B marketplace transforming agricultural trade across Africa and Europe. He blends hands‑on engineering (Go, TypeScript, Swift) with product and operational leadership, having led mobile and engineering teams at Luno and founded multiple startups including Baobab Logic and Activity Explorer. Rick excels at taking early ideas to market-ready platforms that solve real-world problems—price discovery, traceability and payments in food systems are recent examples. Based in Valencia, he favors remote-first, cross‑continental teams and brings a rare mix of fintech, payments and agri-commerce domain experience. An early adopter of building across web, mobile and backend stacks, he’s as comfortable shipping iOS features as architecting Go services.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. in Computer Science Computer Science, B.Sc. in Computer Science Computer Science at Stellenbosch UniversityA and AS Levels, A and AS Levels at University of CambridgeHigh School Certificate, High School Certificate at Somerset West Private School
English, Afrikaans, Dutch, Spanish, flemish
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Github Skills (99)
command-line-tool10
corona10
cli10
gatsby9
golang9
security9
react-table9
github-api-v49
react9
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git9
java9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
marula/baobablogic
Jul 2015 - Jun 2020
The corporate site for Baobab Logic.
Contributions:17 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 11 months
railsbaobabjavascriptrubycorporate
rickkln/corona
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
A Covid-19 tracking website focused on the rate of change in death count globally.
Contributions:92 commits, 1 PR, 60 pushes in 2 months
reactdeathjavascripttrackingfocused
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