Richard is an alumnus of Washington University in Saint Louis, Flickr, and OpenDNS. He loves and obsesses over engineering tools and practice. He’s educated as a hardware designer but hasn’t let that stop him dabbling professionally in web applications, XULRunner desktop applications, big data, and UNIX internals. Richard lives for the terminal and thinks vi is a better religion than emacs. In 2010, he founded DevStructure to build configuration management tools for solo developers, small teams, and anyone without an army of operators.