Richard Crowley

Richard Crowley serves as an Engineer at PlanetScale since June 2024 and has held multiple advisory roles at BOLDstart Ventures, Smallstep, and ReadySet Technology, Inc. since 2018 and 2016 respectively. Prior to this, Richard was a Principal at Source & Binary, providing secure cloud infrastructure solutions from June 2020 to June 2024. A notable tenure at Slack from April 2014 to January 2020 included positions such as Principal Engineer and Director of Operations. Additionally, Richard was a Customer Advisory Board member at Amazon Web Services during 2018-2020 and held various roles at Opsmatic, Betable, and Square from 2012 to 2015. Richard Crowley earned a dual Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, having completed studies there from 2003 to 2007.