Having written many end-to-end applications in Java, JavaScript, and Swift (on iOS), he loves being able to write his server-side code in Swift! He was one of the original developers that made Kitura, a web-service middleware framework for Swift. He currently leads a team that builds applications and libraries that use Kitura. He is active in the open-source Swift community, where he has given talks about server-side Swift at AltConf 2016, Try! Swift NYC 2016, and the Server-side Swift Year-Long Conference 2016. Before joining IBM as a developer, he was on the faculty in the computer science departments at the College of William and Mary and then at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. He blogs at https://developer.ibm.com/swift/ and tweets at @rfdickerson.