Ricky Bland

Course Designer & Academic Lead

Kraków, Poland · seasonally Hampshire, UK

rickybland.com @radiofoot mail@rickybland.com

Ricky designs the Seoul AI 2026 curriculum and built the platform it runs on. A Cambridge DELTA-qualified educator and academic manager, he has led teacher training and Director of Studies operations across Ukraine, Spain, Turkey, Poland and the UK since 2011 — specialising in exam preparation, ESP, and course & materials creation.

He pairs that classroom and academic-management background with hands-on web development (SvelteKit, TypeScript, data visualisation): the course system you're looking at — its data-driven lessons, theming engine, and AI-capability framework — is his own build. Based in Kraków, Poland.

Qualifications

Cambridge DELTA (Modules 1 & 2)CELTAIH Director of StudiesComputer Science & Python (Udacity)SvelteKit & TypeScript

Career

  1. 2024 Senior Teacher · Winter Camp Hainan, CN
  2. 2024 Director of Studies · Summer Hampshire, UK
  3. 2019—now Teacher Trainer & Academic Manager Kraków, PL
  4. 2019—23 Director of Studies · Summer Sussex, UK
  5. 2017—19 Director of Studies Kyiv, UA
  6. 2017—18 Centre Manager · Summer Devon & Sussex, UK
  7. 2014—17 Self-Employed Teacher Kraków, PL
  8. 2013—14 Senior Teacher Córdoba, ES
  9. 2012—13 IELTS Teacher Istanbul, TR

Things I build — side projects

Mapping · Cinema

AtlasKino

Maps film, documentaries and podcasts to the world's cultural regions.

QGISSvelteKitPocketbase
Data-viz · Geography

Gaiagraphia

The most culture, history and geography of the world packed into the smallest possible map file.

QGISTopoJSON
Language learning

Polskify.me

An interactive app for learning Polish.

SvelteKitTypeScriptPocketbase
polskify.me →
Education

Tesolate

Resources and materials for English language teachers.

Course designSvelteKitSanity
Seoul AI 2026