Problem Solver · Operator · Developer

Building systems and
solving problems with
code and common sense.

Leanne Rybintsev is an operations lead, developer, and problem solver with six years at Scrimba, an online coding education platform.

She has built and run community programmes, maintained and developed platform features, reviewed and edited technical courses, and managed email campaigns reaching over 9 million sends.

She gets things organised, gets things fixed, and gets things shipped.

See my work

9M+

Emails sent

Years at Scrimba

100+

Livestreams hosted

Cats

Scrimba · 2020 – Present

Work I’ve Shipped.

Email · Scrimba

Email System & Campaigns

Full ownership of Scrimba's email system and content. Over 9 million sends to a list of 250,000. Built campaigns, sequences, and the infrastructure behind them.

Platform · Scrimba

Site Updates & Development

Contributes to development and maintenance of the Scrimba platform. Building and shipping features, fixes, and improvements in Imba.

Operations · Scrimba

Internal Tools & Apps

Built internal tooling to support operations across the company. Identifying the gap, designing the solution, shipping it.

Operations · Scrimba

Community Management Systems

Implemented and maintained customer support systems and documentation from scratch. Wrote the guides, built the flows, kept them up to date.

Support · Scrimba

Student Success Page

Created and maintains Scrimba's Student Success page. A resource hub for learners navigating the platform and their coding journey.

Editorial · Scrimba

Course Review & Editorial

Reviewed and edited courses across the Scrimba catalogue. Technical accuracy, clarity, and learner experience all checked before release.

Community · Scrimba

Events I’ve Run.

JavaScriptmas

Annual festive coding challenge series running throughout December, with daily challenges and a live grand finale stream. Run across multiple years for tens of thousands of Scrimba learners.

Weekly Web Dev Challenge

Recurring community challenge series giving Scrimba learners a weekly prompt to build, share, and get feedback. Ran consistently to keep the community active between courses.

Scrimba Challenge Weeks

Intensive challenge weeks pushing community members to build and ship in a structured, time-boxed format. Designed from scratch and run end to end.

Personal Projects

Things I’ve Built.

Automation · Google Suite

Receipt Extractor

Automatically pulls receipt PDFs from emails and saves them to Google Drive. Built to solve a real and deeply tedious personal problem.

Chrome Extension

Vinted Cat Slap

A Chrome extension that hides Shein and similar fast-fashion listings from Vinted. Built because life is too short to scroll past things you don’t want to see.

Automation · Python

Book Journal Updater

A Python script that appends new book entries to a GitHub reading journal and pushes the changes automatically. Removes all friction from keeping the journal up to date.

Experience & Education

Where I’ve Been.

Operations & Project Management

Scrum Master & Administrator

Scrum Master at the University of Brighton, running an agile team in 3-week sprints via Asana and SharePoint. Pattern of process documentation and operational improvement across multiple roles.

Software

Web Developer

Built client web pages at Red Balloon Design for brands including Mizuno Golf and The Restaurant Group. Design sprints, cross-browser testing, and responsive builds.

Education & Languages

BA, MA & CELTA

King’s College London (BA) and Goldsmiths (MA). CELTA qualified, taught English in Germany, Austria, Ukraine, and the UK. Languages: English, German, Russian (in progress).

Hosted & Written

Hosted & Written.

Livestreams

Scrimba

Optimize your LinkedIn Page with Danny Thompson

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Scrimba

Ask an Expert: How to love CSS with Josh Comeau

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Scrimba

Ask an Expert: Study and learning tips with Quincy Larson

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Videos

Personal channel

Code custom cursors in HTML & CSS | PNG cursors | SVG cursors

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Personal channel

How to use Google Material Icons with examples | HTML | CSS

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Personal channel

Change browser tab icons in HTML | web development

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Articles

Medium

How to Not Make Your Website Look Like It Was Built in 1997

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Medium

freeCodeCamp to Job Offer in 310 Days: What Worked and What Sucked

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freeCodeCamp

Learn Svelte in 5 Minutes

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Tools & Workflow

AI I Use.

Claude

Daily driver for writing, ops, and problem-solving. Also used for agentic coding via Claude Code, and desktop automation via Cowork.

Devin

Agentic coding. Used to build personal projects autonomously.

ChatGPT

Second opinion and occasional alternative when a different perspective helps.

Gemini

Go-to for SQL and database work.

The human bit

Beyond the Screen.

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Reader

Avid reader with a reading journal on GitHub. Top topics: Japanese fiction, Scandinavian crime, and anything about tidying up.

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Declutterer

Strong opinions about systems, storage, and why most people own too much stuff. Available for consultation.

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CrossFit

Regular CrossFit trainee. PBs to follow when I stop being embarrassed about them.

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Cat Person

Four cats. Unreliable colleagues. Excellent at sitting on keyboards at critical moments.

Building systems andsolving problems withcode and common sense.

Work I’ve Shipped.

Events I’ve Run.

Things I’ve Built.

Where I’ve Been.

Hosted & Written.

AI I Use.

Beyond the Screen.

Let’s Connect.

Building systems and
solving problems with
code and common sense.