Ricardo Signes

As CTO, Rik oversees Fastmail’s technical team and is a Perl software developer. Before Fastmail, he led technical development for over a decade at Pobox, which was acquired by Fastmail in 2015. He ran the core Perl 5 programming language team for five years, during which time, in addition to his many technical duties, he established the Standards of Conduct for the development community. He holds a degree from Boston University in philosophy and religion. Rik is a noted speaker on Perl, open source, and email, and regularly presents at Perl conferences around the world.