Dick founded the Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts (BASE)— One of the first Scala user groups. Dick is also the first recipient of the Phil Bagwell Memorial Scala Community Award. He is a committer on several Scala open source projects and creator of SubCut - a dependency injection solution for Scala. Dick also is a former Google developer advocate where he taught hundreds of developers, both internal and external to Google, topics like Android,Google App Engine, Google Collections Library (now Guava) and GWT. In addition, Dick is the creator and co-host of the (now finished) Java Posse podcast and a member of the (very much alive) Scalawags podcast.