Steve Ridout
Solo Developer at Readlang SL
Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Ridout is a solo developer and former founder with 14 years of engineering experience building elegant, user-focused language learning tools and desktop applications. He founded Readlang, a web app for language learners that was later acquired by Duolingo, and continued at Duolingo as a Staff Software Engineer, blending product intuition with scalable engineering. His background spans C++/Qt desktop development (Mendeley), rich web apps, and computational mechanics research, reflecting a strong foundation in both low-level systems and polished front-end experiences. Based in the Greater Madrid area, he pairs academic rigor—a PhD in Computational Mechanics and a Computer Science degree from Cambridge—with hands-on product ownership. Notably, he has maintained Readlang post-acquisition, showing commitment to long-term product quality and user value. Collected experience in tooling, plugins, and editor-style apps suggests a specialty in developer-friendly, citation and language-focused UX.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA / MA, Computer Science, BA / MA, Computer Science at University of CambridgePhD, Computational Mechanics, PhD, Computational Mechanics at University of Greenwich
Github Skills (34)
styles10
objectid10
searching10
text-files10
calculation10
timestamp10
editing10
converter9
javascript9
simulation9
csl9
reference-implementation9
nodejs9
cli9
camera9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SteveRidout/mongo-object-time
Nov 2013 - May 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 7 months
timestampmongodbobjectidconverter
SteveRidout/notepad-calculator
Sep 2015 - Jan 2023
Prototype for notepadcalculator.com. A web-based notepad with calculation support
Contributions:3 reviews, 11 commits, 1 PR in 7 years 4 months
notesweb-basedprototypenotepadcalculation
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