Brian is a computer programmer, entrepreneur,  consultant, Angel investor, author and free software advocate. He was  the original author of the GNU Bash shell and the primary maintainer of  bash until early 1993. Brian also built the first interactive online  banking software in the US for Wells Fargo in 1995 and he created an  open source election system in 2008. Fox co-wrote a New York Times piece  in 2017 with former CIA head R. James Woolsey advocating open source  election systems as a means of securing US elections against Russian  interference. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from  Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 33471]