Richard Koolish is the Principal Software Architect for the Invisible Fence System (IFS). He designed and developed the software infrastructure and conceived the acoustic compass technology for the IFS.

Koolish has more than thirty years experience in software engineering and was the Principal contributor on the PanAmSat Content Delivery and Acceleration System, and many other large software engineering projects while at BBN, a pioneering Internetworking company.

Koolish was a systems software engineer in diverse technologies that included multi-processor sonar systems, and helped develop real-time capability for the BBN GP1000 and TC2000 super computers. Koolish also developed the sensor network for a wearable computer.

Koolish has earned a degree in Physics from MIT.