Richard Edel II • Jordan, MN • Xennial Architect • Since 1997
Richard Edel II is a Xennial architect from Jordan, Minnesota. He occupies the rare technical territory of a Systems Veteran who remembers the formative days of the 1997 web but now orchestrates the autonomous systems of 2026. Not a pivot. An evolution.
Long before the AI boom, Richard was an Adjunct Professor at Dunwoody College of Technology and a Technology Instructor for District 288. He didn’t just learn networking; he taught it, bridging the gap for the next generation of engineers. From managing global virtual environments to building MSP infrastructure from scratch, the foundation is absolute.
Two decades of racking servers, migrating VMware environments, and debugging network architecture at 2 AM gave him something most “AI founders” will never have: a ground-level understanding of why systems fail, and how to build them so they don’t.
Richard didn’t just learn the game — he built three companies that run it. RE2 Technology Consultants (est. 2008) manages the technical infrastructure of over 300 organizations. OmniSense Digital deploys autonomous SEO pipelines and creative campaigns. RE2VOIP provides enterprise-grade hosted PBX infrastructure. The ecosystem is already built. Now he’s wiring AI into every layer of it.
BuildWyrm is the personal sandbox. The Wyrm is the symbol: a dragon that hoards knowledge, tools, and ambitious projects instead of gold. This is where Richard agentically codes custom Chrome extensions, forks MCP servers, and deploys 4-tier autonomous pipelines that run on Cloudflare Workers and call Claude at 2 AM.
Forty million tokens a week. Not for a VC. For the pure engineering problem of it.
When the monitors go dark, he’s at the gym, raising his kids, or walking his dog, Luna, through the West Metro. The same obsession with optimization that runs his AI pipelines runs his personal operating system. Balance isn’t the absence of intensity — it’s the management of it.
