Rich Jones

Founder of Gun.io

Rich Jones is a prolific open source software developer, archetypal hacker-nomad, founder of the bespoke talent agency Gun.io, and the author of Zappa, Python's serverless framework. Zappa was the first project which allowed developers to build and deploy complex event-driven web applications to AWS Lambda, allowing for infinite elasticity and massively reduced operations burdens. In addition to his open source work, he has provided consulting services for dozens of startups, and was most recently a cloud architect and software developer at the Childhood Cancer Data Lab, where he was responsible for the architecture, application development and operations of a system which processed petabytes of genetic data in order to accelerate the the use of artificial intelligence in the hunt for cures of rare cancers. In his free time he enjoys skateboarding, trap music and scotch whiskey.