Ritchie Swann
Software Engineer at Freeland Scientific
Ashford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRitchie Swann is a seasoned software engineer based in Ashford, England, with decades-long experience across C/C++, C#, SQL, Node.js and front-end frameworks, currently supporting and developing instrument and server software for the organic recycling sector at Freeland Scientific. He has a strong commercial pedigree from long-term engineering roles at 20-20 and Albany Software, and since 2009 has maintained SABRE, a significant open-source project serving the largest independent collection of out-of-copyright Ordnance Survey maps. Comfortable across low-level systems and full-stack web technologies, Ritchie blends legacy-language expertise with modern stacks like Angular and Node.js. A University of Southampton computer science graduate, he pairs pragmatic problem-solving with hands-on maintenance of production systems. Outside work he’s active in the developer community and on GitHub under Ritchie333, where his profile reflects a mix of technical depth and personal interests in music and real ale.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Southampton
Github Skills (34)
macos-monterey10
opencore9
renderer8
scripting8
svn7
opengl7
forking7
installer7
maps6
macos6
game-development6
map-editor6
disk6
gis6
openlayers6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Ritchie333/chuckie
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Ritchie333/dynamitedan
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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