Richard is a Co-Founder and CTO of Reactor 8, the company developing The DevOps Toolkit (DTK). DTK is a framework for Infrastructure and Application Developers working together to deliver Services to their perspective users/customers. The framework was born out of 3+ years of consulting/services work in the area of automation, application/service architecture and deployment, with a particular focus on distributed Services and related tooling which typically feature complex topologies and cross node dependencies.