Rik Scheffer
Lead App Developer at Heris IT
Hillegom, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRik Scheffer is a lead app developer with 13 years of experience building and scaling mobile apps across platforms from BlackBerry and Windows Phone to modern React Native deployments. He currently leads the Amsterdam app team, aligning front-end development, enforcing high code quality, and owning CI/CD for a major municipal app while previously driving 99.9% crash-free metrics at telecom provider BEN. As founder of multiple app businesses and an app success consultant, he blends hands-on engineering with product-led growth tactics to help apps find an audience, evidenced by his Wordfeud case study work. Trained in mathematics and entrepreneurship, Rik pairs analytical rigor with commercial instincts and often mentors developers through complex problems and tooling choices.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Minor Business Administration, Minor Business Administration at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Master's degree, Entrepreneurship, Master's degree, Entrepreneurship at University of AmsterdamVWO Natuur & Techniek, Middelbaar onderwijs, VWO Natuur & Techniek, Middelbaar onderwijs at Vossius Gymnasium
Dutch, English, German, javascript, php, html, css, c#, xaml, xml, java, cascades, sql, qml, typescript
Github Skills (37)
typescript10
domoticz9
zigbee9
home-assistant8
typescript-definitions7
iot7
dts7
home-automation7
firebase-functions6
firebase6
mqtt6
android-sdk6
android5
sdk5
firebase-remote-config5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Heris-IT/vscode-phpunit-watcher
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 7 commits, 6 pushes in 1 month
RikScheffer/DefinitelyTyped
Dec 2024 - Dec 2024
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
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