Richard Crowley

Engineer at PlanetScale

Richard is an engineer, engineering leader, and recovering manager. His work focuses on cloud infrastructure, tooling, databases, and distributed systems. He is an engineer at PlanetScale. Prior to joining PlanetScale he founded a consulting practice called Source & Binary and led operations engineering at Slack. He tolerates computers, likes bicycles, isn't a very good open-source maintainer, and lives in San Francisco with his wife and two kids.