Ripple’s software engineer Evan Scwartz has given interview at an event hosted by Blockchain, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Club. The club comprises the students studying at Harvard Business School and the media sponsor for this event is blockpulse 360. According to a report by BCFocus, Ripple is also using blockchain technology for settling global payments: Satander.Source
Evan Schwartz also works on the Interledger Protocol of Ripple and gives his views pertaining to the payment system. 
On being asked about IntelliJ as the first question of the interview he stated that the software team developed it at Ripple and “spun out as a separate open source project.” He says that for this project “a team of people” are assigned to work on a full time basis for a considerable span of time.
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