Rick Pastoor
Founder at Cirrux
North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRick Pastoor is a founder and product-led engineering leader with 16 years of experience building fast, user-focused digital products and teams. He was an early engineer and later Head of Product at Blendle, where he scaled multidisciplinary teams, led international launches, and shipped features that personalized millions of newsletters. Rick is the author of the Dutch bestseller GRIP, combining practical productivity methods with product instincts—an unusual bridge between writing and product leadership that helped the book reach broad audiences. He now runs ventures including Cirrux and GRIP, continuing to design independent, high-performance workspaces and tools. Based in North Holland, he blends hands-on technical craftsmanship from his Wrep and startup days with strategic product operations and a knack for turning work philosophies into tangible products.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
HAVO, Math, Physics, Information Sciences, Economics, HAVO, Math, Physics, Information Sciences, Economics at Greijdanus College ZwolleBachelor of ICT, Bachelor of ICT at Windesheim
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (104)
webview10
javascript10
laravel10
html10
electron10
nodejs10
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chrome10
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reactive-programming9
swift9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
wrep/bugsnag-php-symfony
Feb 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:31 commits in 8 months
bundlephpsymfony-bundlebugsnag-phpphp-module
rickpastoor/scrummer
Sep 2015 - Nov 2017
A fast and lightweight Trello plugin for working with Scrum
Contributions:25 releases, 6 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 2 months
scrumtrello
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