Richard was born and raised in Shanghai, China. He has a Bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a Master's degree from Zhejiang University, both majoring in Software Engineering. While in school, he took part in several projects as an intern. After graduation, he started his career at Ouku. He is good at Java and J2EE, and enjoys other programming languages, such as Python and PHP. Currently he has a great interest in Ruby and Ruby on Rails and is happy to work in Ekohe. His health is vy important to him, recently he finished the 10km Nike Human Race 2008 and his next objective is to finish a half-marathon.