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rick olson
technoweenie at GitHub. \m/
Guillermo Rauch
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CTO and cofounder of SF-based education startup LearnBoost, author of socket.io, co-maintainer of mongoose, MooTools core developer, blogger and overall open source lover.
Chris Heilmann
Chris Heilmann has dedicated a lot of his time making the web better. Originally coming from a radio journalism background, he built his first web site from scratch around 1997 and spent the following years working on lots of large, international web sites, spent a few years in Yahoo building products and explaining and training people and is now at Mozilla. Chris wrote two and contributed to 4 books on web development and wrote dozens of articles and hundreds of blog posts for Ajaxian, Smashingmag, Yahoo, Mozilla, ScriptJunkie and his own blog wait-till-i.com. He also uses Twitter obsessively as @codepo8
Deepak Jeevankumar
Deepak works very closely with enterprise, cloud, mobile and cleantech portfolio companies of General Catalyst. Prior to joining General Catalyst Partners in 2010, he served a short stint at the Investments Office of Yale University and a longer time at Sun Microsystems. At Sun, he was deeply involved in designing some of the top 10 supercomputers in the industry and also lead Sun’s high performance computing practice in Asia-Pacific.
Phineas Barnes
Phineas is a Principal at First Round Capital, worked at AND 1 from “day 2″ and founded a fitness video game company.
Before joining First Round Capital, Phin founded ResponDesign, an independent videogame company that developed and published Yourself!Fitness, the first fitness game for Xbox and PlayStation2.
One of the earliest employees at AND 1 Basketball, Phin spent six years helping to grow the company from revenues of $15 million to over $225 million.
Phin also has consulted with several companies, including MTV Networks, where he focused on non-traditional games and the growth of the MTV Games division beginning in 2006.
Mendel Chuang
Mendel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Smoopa, a startup rewarding people for shopping smarter. He graduated from MIT and worked at Google for more than 5 years on projects including Google Desktop, Toolbar, Friend Connect, Blogger, AdWords, and AdSense, where he won the prestigious Google Founders Award.
Purin Phanichphant
Though at different times, he’s masqueraded as a Hollywood star, a part-time prince, and a buddhist monk, Purin has always been a designer at heart. Drawing inspiration from his native Thailand, where fun, play, and lightheartedness are a way of life, and his fetish for buttons, knobs, and displays, Purin has designed a number of playful and interactive creations. His most recent personal work includes a six-foot-tall land-glider dubbed the Death Wheel 3000dx, an interface for human-computer sex, a wall covered with all the tap lights in the Bay Area, and a machine that churns out authentic Thai food with the push of a button. He is currently a senior designer/maker at IDEO.
marak squires
Open-source code enthusiast, Rap Superstar, Node and Javascript Extremist. Chief Evangelist and Co-Founder @Nodejitsu.
David Ulevitch
Founder / CEO of OpenDNS.
Caolan McMahon
Creator of Kanso, Nodeunit and Async.
Audrey Lo
Audrey Lo is the Founder of Ballerinies, a children’s dance shoe line and is currently working on her second venture, My Travel Bunny, a website that is focused on teaching young people how to travel in style, but on a budget. Audrey is also a freelance business plan writer and an adviser to multiple business ventures.
Michael Mahemoff
Michael Mahemoff is currently baking Node apps independently, having recently departed from Google Developer Relations. He is the author of Ajax Design Patterns and a total fanboi of Javascript on the server.
David Goligorsky
David Goligorsky is a Project Lead and Sr. Product Designer at IDEO based in Cambridge, MA. He directed the Liu Lecture Series in Design at Stanford University and has been a panel speaker on Design Thinking and Human-Centered Design at Harvard and MIT. Before IDEO, David earned a MS Engineering in Product Design at Stanford University after several years of work in the Aerospace industry working on advanced unmanned air vehicles at AeroVironment and “Smart Material” technology development for Department of Defense agencies during his tenure at a small Engineering firm in the Boston area. He studied Aerospace Engineering as an undergraduate at Boston University. Beyond work and academia, David builds bicycles, makes gentlemen’s pocket squares, collects garbage, and reads Hemingway. Some personal work is online at www.davidgoligorsky.com.
Mikeal Rogers
Alex Donn
Developer Evangelist with the AT&T Developer Program. I love startupweekend.org, mobile app development & am an adrenaline junkie ☁——– ✈
Kami Lott
I spend my days setting up events and giving away prizes as the Community Manager for GitHub.
Tom Nguyen
Tom Nguyen is Senior Product Manager for Flash Player and AIR at Adobe and works on helping folks reach more people with their playful, amazing ideas.
Previously, Tom oversaw social media and innovation strategy at Reuters in New York and London and worked at on online leanring startup in Beijing. He was selected as a Primetime Emmy Award finalist for his work in interactive television and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Tom also holds an MA in Learning Sciences and Design and a BS in Computer Science, both from Stanford University. He can be seen biking around flat parts of San Francisco, backpacking in far off places, or on twitter @tomng.
Charles Beeler
General Partner at El Dorado Ventures, an early-stage, technology focused venture capital firm.
Justin Isaf
Justin runs the community team for the Huffington Post, is a recovering entrepreneur and the Director of Community for The StartupBus.
Aza Raskin
Founder of Massive Health. Former Creative Lead for Firefox. Founding member Mozilla Labs. Created Ubiquity, Songza.com, Bloxes.com (cardboard furniture).
Steven Soroka
Steven is primarily a Ruby and Javascript developer, currently solving all manner of things for Shopify. He loves optimizing code, evented architectures, and long walks.
Aaron Heckmann
Aaron is currently an engineer at LearnBoost, a startup built upon nodejs, building the next generation of education for the web. An active member of the nodejs community, Aaron is a co-maintainer of Mongoose, the MongoDB object modeling tool, as well as authoring express-mongoose, gm, and contributing to other projects such as Express and the node-mongodb-native mongodb driver.
Manish Shah
Co-Founder of Rapleaf.com Engineer interested in Big Data, User Experience, Data Viz.
Daniel Shaw
Node.js Engineer at Spreecast responsible for real-time architecture. Redis fanboy, JavaScript dork, polyglot, skater dude and dad.
Stefano J. Attardi
Stefano is a designer and a front-end web developer who recently accepted a job at Facebook. He won the first Node Knockout with Swarmation.com.
Ragavan Srinivasan
Ragavan is the Product Lead for Mozilla’s Apps project. Previously, he worked at VMware and HP. Ragavan is also co-founder of Kids on Computers, a non-profit that sets up computer labs in developing countries.
Chung-Man Tam
Chung-Man is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Sequoia Capital. Prior to joining Sequoia, he led product development for advertising products at AdMob and Booyah. Chung has over 11 years of consumer and enterprise experience in the areas of mobile, web search, and social software at Google, Yahoo!, and Homestead. Chung earned a B.S. from Stanford University in Computer Science and a M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Pascal Cremer
Lead project manager and Co-CTO in a german agency for web (PHP, node.js) and mobile (iOS, Android) development.
Author of ZombieDriver, a component which ties together next generation web acceptance testing framework Mink for PHP and the famous testing framework Zombie.js using node.js.
Occasional blogger.
Loves well written, organized, and testable code & software design as much as awesome and sleek-looking user interfaces with focus on usability and accessibility.
Drew Blas
Drew has been a Rails developer for 6 years and a Node developer for 1. He’s worked to bring cutting edge development like Mongo, CouchDB, Rails, Node, Erlang, and Scala into the everyday lexicon at large corporations, helping them keep up with the ever changing web development landscape.
Mike Perham
Rubyist at Carbon Five, motorcycle racer, cheapskate. Open source developer and enthusiast.
Andrew Chen
Andrew is currently the Asst. Vice President of Media and Emerging Technology at the NYCEDC, where he leads all of NYC’s efforts to develop the tech/startup ecosystem under Mayor Bloomberg. Previously, he was founder of photo crowdsourcing startup SnapItTo.Me.
Danny Coates
I like mashing old ideas into new and useful things. I started the node-inspector debugger project for Node.js. My favorite meal is breakfast, for dinner.
Krishna Guda
Krishna Guda, CEO and founder of the company comes with a history of building start-ups and was also associated with IBM as a technology architect in the Rational Labs. Krishna has worked with several customers in the last 10 years and his commitment and work in the adoption of productive practices and technologies both in house and with customers enable syntacticE deliver exceeded customer satisfaction and acquire new opportunities. He has earned Mathematics and Electrical Engineering degrees at BITS, Pilani India.
Jolie O'Dell
Jolie writes about business and technology for VentureBeat. Previously she covered on social media and technology for Mashable. She also has been a writer and community manager for ReadWriteWeb and a freelance tech writer.
When she’s not blogging, she’s cooking, playing bass guitar, rollerskating, or desperately trying to learn OOP.
James Duncan
An optimistic, big picture pessimist, James was involved in the conceptual origins of the modern Platform-as-a-Service in 2004 while at Fotango, and now continues that work at Joyent. He lives in a bunker somewhere north of Montreal where he tries to find the time to garden in the summer & ski in the winter.
Jason Gilmore
Jason is author of several popular books, including the bestselling “Beginning PHP and MySQL, Fourth Edition”, and “Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework”. He’s cofounder of the popular CodeMash conference, a contributing editor to Developer.com and PHPBuilder.com, and a project editor for Wrox/Wiley Publishing. Jason regularly consults for a wide variety of clientele across the United States.
Jason Hoffman
Founding Joyeur: working everyday to make sure the best technology wins
Jed Schmidt
Japanese translator by day, hobbyist programmer by night. Creator of (fab) and curator of 140byt.es.
Richard Crowley
Richard is the founder of DevStructure, working to build operations automation tools for developers and small teams. He’s something of a polyglot, working frequently in C, Go, JavaScript, Puppet, Python, Ruby, and shell. Previously he worked at OpenDNS giving users stats on 20+ billion DNS requests each day. Prior to OpenDNS, he built the open-source Flickr Uploadr and attended Washington University in Saint Louis. He’s passionate about engineering tools and practice and thinks vi is a better religion than emacs.
Giri Sreenivas
Founder and CEO of Mobilisafe. Entrepreneur, technologist, husband and avid reader. Stanford and Carnegie Mellon alum with engineering, architecture and management experiences at 4thpass (Motorola), Lockheed Martin, Panasonic and T-Mobile.
Kowsik Guruswamy
CTO @ Mu Dynamics, hacker, coder, performance junkie, all things cloud, CouchDB fanatic, packet geek
Fred Yates
Freelance web designer, former node knockout competitor, current judge. gl hf
Glenn Gillen
Works on Heroku’s add-on system, general wrangler of code, open source developer.
Steve Streza
Ryan McGrath
Kickass web developer/designer/author; hacker on various projects.
Creator of NKO 2010 innovation category runner-up: MapRejuice.
Anna-Christina Douglas
Native New Yorker | Stanford Product Design and Management Science & Engineering | 5 years in product marketing at Google | Director of Product for Carrotmob
Stephanie Hannon
Stephanie co-founded a startup that aims to bring web innovations, technology and transparency to energy management and markets. She spent the last seven years as a product manager at Google for Gmail, Google Maps and Google Wave. She previously spent six years as a software engineer building operating systems for the Catalyst line of switches at Cisco Systems. Stephanie holds a B.S. Computer Systems Engineering and M.S.E.E. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Rob Hawkes
Rob thrives on solving problems through code. He has an addiction to visual programming, and can’t get enough of HTML5. He’s a Technical Evangelist at Mozilla.
John Britton
Matt Ranney
Voxer CTO.
Node contributor and fan.
Leading with thoughts from across the Pacific.
Jacob Thornton
I work for twitter… I make comics sometimes (http://t.co/GucZD60) and javascripts (http://t.co/0FcXhQl) other times.
Ryan Dahl
Ryan is the Node.js creator and project lead. He recently moved to San Francisco from Germany. He is sad that the parks in SF don’t have ping pong tables but is happy with the weather.
Jim Pick
Vancouver. Independent SSJSer. I worked as staff at Node Knockout HQ in SF last year and was deeply inspired by all the awesome entries. Can’t wait to see what pops out this year!
Angelo DiNardi
Software Engineer who’s been building client side javascript web applications since 2006. Recent side projects include iOS software development (MailWrangler for iPad) and node.js server development (OpenHomePro).
Besides software Angelo dabbles in photography and most recently starting to work on a classic VW Beetle.
Rosa Wu
Rosa is a product manager at Erly. Prior to graduating from Stanford GSB in June, she was a product manager at Google through the Postini acquisition.
Matt Soldo
Matt is the Product Manager for the Heroku Postgres database service. Matt has previously worked at Amazon.com, the 2003 Stars & Stripes America’s Cup Team, and was a founder of Hortnet.com.
Amos Wenger
Games with shiny sprites and edgy polygons brought me to computer programming. Then I was busy building languages for a while.
Now I’m leading a company of sea urchins at @ofmlabs to try and make browser audio full of rainbows.
I am the co-author of JSMad, an MP3 decoder in pure JavaScript.
Jan Lehnardt
Jan Lehnardt has been involved with CouchDB since 2006 as a developer, consultant and evangelist. In late 2009 he co-founded CouchOne (now Couchbase) together with CouchDB inventor Damien Katz and contributor J Chris Anderson. He’s the co-author of O’Reilly’s CouchDB: The Definitive Guide. He enjoys working with and on open source software. Jan is a co-organizer of the JSConf-family of conferences, most notably JSConf EU as well as the Buzzwords series of conferences focused on Big Data, Analysis, Search and Storage. He lives in Berlin, Germany.
Carter M Rabasa
I work on the Internet Explorer team and focus on helping web developers get excited about HTML5 and IE9.
I especially ♥ HTML5 gaming!
Mark Percival
Odd job engineer. The odder the job, the more I get paid. Ask me about web scale.
Dan Wheeler
Dropbox engineer, amateur linguistics nerd. He leads our translation effort and hacks on the website.
Jeremy Johnstone
I’m a geek who likes doing good things in the world. Passionate JavaScript programmer evangelizing the benefits of using it everywhere from top to bottom of stack. Attended and organized hack days before it was even named as such.
Chris Sharkey
Chris Sharkey has been involved in software development for over 12 years and has developed some of the most successful online businesses in Australia. Chris developed holiday accomodation website Stayz, Australia’s most popular holiday website, which he sold in 2006 to Fairfax Digital. He is featured in the book, “50 Great E-Businesses and the Minds Behind Them”. Chris currently runs many online businesses and is the CTO of Bislr.com.
Alexis Sellier
Hacker in mind, Artist at heart. CTO @CiviGuard, Co-founder @SecretSocial, Creator of http://lesscss.org, http://vowsjs.org, http-console and many others!
Matthew Podwysocki
I’m a blogger, open source junkie and maintainer of the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript at Microsoft. Spending my nights on Node hacking, especially on Windows.
Remy Sharp
Ginger Ninja JavaScript Abridger.
…well, I used to be ginger. The JavaScript is still kinda true!
Rob Kent
Rob is a technology lawyer who works with Silicon Valley companies on high stakes IP litigation. Before law school, Rob worked in the industry for four years, coding network and database applications. Rob has a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in Computer Science from Kalamazoo College. His ultimate goal is to start a brewery, where he will tweet the progress of every batch.
Ryan Spoon
Ryan joined Polaris Venture Partners in 2009 and focuses on internet, mobile and digital media investments. Additionally, he runs Dogpatch Labs in San Francisco.
Previously, Ryan worked at Widgetbox as VP of Marketing & Business Development and spent 2003-2007 at eBay, most recently leading eBay’s US classifieds business. Ryan is also the founder of beRecruited.com (acquired in 2007).
Brent Fitzgerald
norcal software designer & creator
Nathan White
nodejs, mongodb
J Chris Anderson
J Chris Anderson is an Apache CouchDB committer and co-author of the O'Reilly book CouchDB: The Definitive Guide. He enjoys working on JavaScript CouchApps which can be peer-replicated just like any other data. Chris is obsessed with bending the physics of the web, and giving control back to users. In 2009, Chris, along with Damien Katz and Jan Lehnardt, founded CouchOne.
Sara Wood
VP/Product for Wikia. Mom of two (including this little dude: @complaineypants). Lover of donuts.
Joe Hitchens
Joe Hitchens and his company Sleepless Software Inc., have been providing custom software development, consulting and analysis for over 20 years for all common software platforms and languages, including mobile and social. A true veteran, he can not seem to find a problem that he can’t solve. Nevertheless, he presses on tirelessly in hopes of one day finding an actual challenge.
Joe is a genuine Javascript expert. He was writing game servers with embedded javascript engines in the mid 1990s, and makes JS jump through hoops to this day. He has designed and built many complex and highly scalable solutions for companies such as Electronic Arts, Stanford University libraries, Mattel, and many others.
Joe and his motley crew of guerilla, trench-coding, mercenary, node-warriors are currently working on all sorts of cool, custom software for various wonderful clients across the country.
Mathias Pettersson
Frontend developer working on a Farm. Develops node stuff and pokes at other small projects.
NKO 2010 solo prize winner, received highest design and completeness scores.
Jeff Craig
BS in Comp Sci from Montana State University in 2006, stumbled into the web and the YUI Community by 2008. Meebo Front-End Engineer since 2011.
Will Conant
Chief Software Architect at Optimized Revenue. Author of flow.js.
Christopher Beck
Technology Solutions Architect for an online stock and options broker with a bent towards leading-edge technologies. Node proponent, JavaScript geek, and builder of quality apps for companies large and small since 1995.
David Dollar
David is the current maintainer of the Node.js language pack for Heroku.
Wynn Netherland
CTO at Pure Charity. Co-host of The Changelog. Co-author of Sass & Compass CSS book.
Peter Berg
Entrepreneur turned “intrapreneur”, currently working on product strategy at Visa, focused on new and emerging methods of payment (mobile, local, online). Previously, co-founder of October Three. Before that, joined consumer products startup Joby as an early employee and ended up running online strategy & marketing as well as numerous operational initiatives. Prior to that, helped start a financial services SaaS platform that was acquired by JP Morgan.
Dominic Szablewski
I live in Germany near Frankfurt and recently finished my bachelor for Digital Media at the Hochschule Darmstadt. The topic of my bachelor thesis was HTML5 Gaming. My JavaScript Game Engine Impact and the first demo game Biolab Disaster were initially created as a proof of concept for this thesis, but evolved into much more.
I write about my projects and web technology in general on my blog PhobosLab.org and on twitter.com/phoboslab. I now try to make a living by creating games and selling Impact. So far it’s working.
Steve Corona
Aaron Staple
I’m a fortnight labs partner and mongodb kernel developer.
Allan Carroll
Engineer and Entrepreneur. CTO at StudyBreak.com. Building a new company and enjoying Node.js.
Tristan Dunn
JS developer at meebo. Craft beer enthusiast. Developer for Open Beer Database. Louisiana native.
Irene Yang
Formerly an engineer. Currently an attorney specializing in intellectual property litigation and counseling. BS in computer science from Stanford University. Aspiring athlete and indoor gardener.
Ben Galbraith
Ben Galbraith, together with his long-time friend Dion Almaer, forms one-half of the dynamic “Ben and Dion” duo that founded Ajaxian.com, headed Developer Tools at Mozilla, ran Developer Relations at Palm and now leads mobile e-commerce at Walmart.
Ben’s been writing code since he was six and starting businesses since he was ten; he’s written books, given a few hundred presentations, produced a few technical conferences, and has held CEO, CIO, CTO, Software Architecture positions in medical, publishing, media, manufacturing, advertising, software and internet industries. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and five children.
Chris Keane
Currently rocking out at OpenSky, I build products and mustaches with equal abandon. I’m like a chocoholic for root beer.
Tiffany Kosolcharoen
Tiffany Kosolcharoen is an MIT Sloan MBA, Class of 2013 Forté Fellow. She leads business development for Ansca Mobile, maker of cross-platform app development software Corona SDK. When not advising startups, she’s writing for the MIT Entrepreneurship Review, blogging for the Forté Foundation, and experimenting with social media fundraising channels for non-profit HandsOn Bay Area.
Bryan Schreier
sequoia capital, google, morgan stanley, princeton. currently supporting inkling, dropbox, hearsay social, piazza, trulia and a couple stealthy ones in their effort to make a difference.
Samy Kamkar
think bad, do good http://samy.pl
Stuart Wall
Stu is the CEO of Signpost, a local deal marketplace funded by Spark Capital and Google Ventures. In a past life he worked as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company. Stuart graduated from Miami University and has an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.
Cyril Ebersweiler
Cyril Ebersweiler is an entrepreneur and globe-trotter investor in SOSventures International, an early stage venture capital firm. He has been hanging out in Asia for the last ten years, and founded the first mentorship-driven seed funding program in China, Chinaccelerator.
Brandon Leonardo
Master of Awesome, Director of Technology for StartupBus. I like to build things.
Creator of NKO 2010 innovation category runner-up: MapRejuice.
Dan Manges
CTO at Braintree
Brian Arnold
I’m the Lead Support Engineer at SitePen, Inc.. I’ve also taught courses on JavaScript and Dojo to several classes, large and small. Heck, I met my wife through JS. I love the language.
Ethan Anderson
Ethan is an experienced Internet executive and cofounder of Redbeacon, a website that enables consumers to get price quotes and book appointments for local services. Redbeacon recently won the Top Startup of 2009 at the prestigious TechCrunch50 and Business Insider Startup2010 competitions. Prior to Redbeacon, Ethan was a Product Manager at Google where he was responsible for launching and managing the Google Video product internationally. He was also Google’s first Product Manager for the fast growing Southeast Asian emerging markets, and a Product Manager on Google Image Search, the top image search product in the world. Before joining Google, Ethan worked in a number of internet strategy and marketing roles at The Clorox Company, Buy.com, and McKinsey & Company. Ethan graduated with Honors from Harvard Business School and Magna Cum Laude from Duke University, where he earned a BA in Economics and Public Policy Studies.
Tom Hughes-Croucher
Web Developer, Technology Evangelist (Chief Evangelist at Joyent), British ex-pat, Buddhist, Vegan, Author of ‘Up and Running with Node’, All Round Nice Guy.
Ben Cherry
Ben lives in San Francisco and works as a Front-end Engineer at Twitter, where he writes reasonably decent JavaScript for twitter.com. He also blogs over at Adequately Good.
Paolo Fragomeni
Kiran Ryali
Fullstack web and mobile engineer. Project experience with Rails, Node, Android, iOS, and more. Student @Illinoiscs. #StartupBus 2011 Chicago Buspreneur.
Amir Manji
Amir works on Tapjoy’s backend. He personally handles every request that hits Tapjoy’s API.
Amir lives in San Francisco and enjoys Ruby on Rails and giving high-fives.
Chris Williams
JSConf’s daddy.
Nick Plante
Nick created the Rails Rumble because he’s obsessed with Getting Shit Done As Fast As Fucking Possible (GSDAFAFP). He’s a startup consultant and advisor, a mentor for Chinaccelerator, and chief troublemaker at Zerosum Labs, where he’s incubating his own web properties using a lethal mix of Ruby, JavaScript, and HTML5. He didn’t sign up for Knockout early enough this year, so he has to help judge it. Le Sigh.
Eric Kryski
Jack of all trades, mastering some. Lead engineer porting our current web app to Node.js. Started Node.js/Javascript Calgary meetup group. Blogs on occasion at http://blog.erickryski.com.
Eric Bieller
UI/UX Designer at Tapjoy. Check out ericbieller.com for more info..
Hozefa Botee
Hozefa is an engineer-turned-entrepreneur-turned-attorney who acts as outside counsel to startups in both the Bay Area and NYC. He thinks about his clients' legal issues so that they can focus on building their businesses.
Chris Umbel
J?Ruby and node.js developer with a passion for big data, natural language processing and highly available/scalable systems. Maintainer of the “natural” general-purpose natural language library for node.
Jerry Sievert
Prolific software developer. Ex staff member of the Open Source Development Lab, Currently Technology Visionary at the Daily Insight Group. Expertise in large scale data management and software architecture.
Huned Botee
I build teams, write code (since 1989), and measure everything. I made some of the pixel art for the NKO site. People talk about me on Twitter.
Brian Mulloy
ruby coder, maker, drummer, umich alum, apigee.
Ciaran Jessup
Engineering manager for @thisisnumero and open source advocate.
You’ll find me contributing, authoring and hacking on various OSS projects across t'internet :)
These are some of my node.js projects.
Nikolai Onken
Nikolai has been developing web applications since 1997 and since then he has been continuously involved with open source projects such as the Dojo Toolkit.
Since 2008, mobile cross platform development has been the primary focus of his work and he likes to push the browser as platform forward through projects like HumanAPI – yes Robots are coming to JavaScript.
Being a co-founder of uxebu, a development shop based in Munich, Amsterdam and Palo Alto, he is now developing tools like apparat.io for developers to make mobile HTML5 development easier.
Dmitry Dimov
Dmitry Dimov spent a dozen years working on enterprise software, consumer web, and the service cloud. He’s now trying his hand at saving the world – as a co-founder and CTO of a solar startup, he’s bringing smarter, better – and better-looking – solar energy to the people.
Elizabeth Cha
Elizabeth works on brand marketing at Google. When she isn’t pondering the future of the Internet, she comes up with names for kick-ass coding competitions.
Alex Russell
Alex Russell is a software engineer at Google working on Chrome, Chrome Frame, and the web platform. He serves as one of Google’s representatives to ECMA TC39 and contributes to web standards development in many areas. He’s (still) fighting IE 6 so you don’t have to.
Devon Govett
Devon Govett is a self proclaimed JavaScript fanboy and the creator of the Badass JavaScript blog and the PDFKit PDF generation library for Node. He has contributed code and ideas to many open source projects, and is very active on Twitter keeping up with the latest in the fast moving web development world.
Christian Kvalheim
I’m the director for Xing Spain. When I’m not working on building a team in Barcelona, I’m working on the node mongodb driver, organizing the local ruby and node meetup or speaking about node.js to anyone who will listen.
Matt Miller
Former software engineer turned lawyer practicing patent, trademark, copyright, and technology law.
Malte Ubl
Malte really likes programming with JavaScript. Currently Google pays him to do that. You can find him on Google Plus and Twitter.
Ankur Bulsara
Ankur is the co-founder and CTO of Scopely, which is using NodeJS to enable millions of people to interact in real-time. Ankur holds a B.S. in computer science from Cornell University. He lives in Los Angeles where he writes code and makes beats. His favorite drummers are Billy Cobham and Pharrell Williams.
Eran Hammer-Lahav
Eran Hammer-Lahav is an active standards developer and open web advocate, working for Yahoo! as Sled.com project lead. Most recently the lead author and editor of the OAuth specifications. An avid farmer, and the owner of three emus all named Kevin.
Jason Smith
Jason is the hosting leader at Iris Couch, which provides cloud CouchDB service. He spends all day, every day working on CouchDB with Node.
Andy Brett
bug fixer. technical co-founder @cakehealth. former techcruncher.
Nelson Cheng
Nelson is a former product manager and product marketing manager for Google and Amazon.com. He currently is an advisor to a number of startups including Signpost (backed by Google Ventures and Spark Capital), Miso Music (backed by Google Ventures and TechCrunch Disrupt Audience Award winner), and Slated.
Seth Berman
Seth is a seed stage investor who has invested in over 20 companies primarily in the consumer space such as Hipmunk, Backtype, Qwiki, Context Logic, CarWoo, Dotcloud. Seth also handles the strategic marketing for The Richemont Group which owns luxury brands Cartier, Mont Blanc, IWC, Panerai, Dunhill, Chloe, Net-A-Porter.com, Mr Porter.com, Vacheron Constantin, Jaeger-LeCoultre along with many other brands and businesses.
Mario Michelli
into: digital art, do: code, am:baby daddy
Tina Lee
Tina Lee is Director of Innovation and Learning at ZeroDivide. She is responsible for developing and maintaining systems for collecting, analyzing and evaluating program outcomes. She also identifies and tests new technology applications for community use and develops new products and services for ZeroDivide. Prior to ZeroDivide, Tina worked as a fellow at the City of San Francisco’s Department of Technology Services, where she assisted the Chief Information Officer and Emerging Technologies Team in driving the City’s open government initiatives, including DataSF.
Gerad Suyderhoud
- Founder: Fortnight Labs;
- Co-Creator: Node Knockout;
- Alumni: Swivel, Apple, Cornerstone Research, Stanford;
- User: Node, Rails, Mongo, jQuery;
- Triathlete … or should that be “Athlete: Swim, Bike, Run”? :)
Tom Longson
Tom is the UX developer at Singly developing The Locker Project. He has a love for building experiences that are accessible, understandable, maintainable, and evoke trust.
Daniel Shi
Daniel is currently an MBA at Cornell University and interning with Nokia Growth Partners, focusing on later stage investments in Internet and wireless. He previously was in sales for telecom outsourcing and solutions integration companies in China. He is currently about halfway thru A Song of Ice and Fire.
Matthew Deiters
Matthew Deiters works for McKinsey & Company in San Francisco. He has been focusing on end-to-end software development and delivery for over a decade and specializes in how NOT to build software. He founded coderwall.com to change the way developers showcase their skills and to foster community participation. In his spare time, Matt is an amateur foodie enjoying cooking and drinking plenty of wine. Having already visited more then 33 countries, he is always looking for somewhere new to explore.
Nick Small
Crazy JavaScript things at Shopify.
Contributor to Cappuccino.
Creator of batman.js, which we’re about to release.
Matt Shore
Started and sold a BI company to Oracle. Launched a microlending fund in Haiti. Studied music in Florida and business in France.
Eric Florenzano
Co-founder of Boilerplate Inc. (Formerly co-founded Convore.)
Matthew Eernisse
Matthew Eernisse has been building interactive web applications with JavaScript for over a decade. He was a very early proponent of advanced JavaScript usage — including the first article on oreillynet.com using the word ‘Ajax,’ and a book for SitePoint, “Build Your Own Ajax Web Applications.” Matthew works for Yammer, Inc. as an Engineering Lead on the JavaScript team. He is the author of the Jake build-tool, and the Geddy Web-development framework for Node.
Christian Limon
Christian works at Tapjoy leading Developer & Publisher Partnerships. Previously, Christian worked at Morgan Keegan Technology Group, a tech focused investment bank, and at SK Telecom Americas in corporate development (mobile payments and digital media groups). Christian earned his BA from the University of Southern California (USC) and his MBA from Loyola Marymount University (LMU).
Chris Matthieu
Chris Matthieu is the founder of Nodester, the opensource Node.JS Platform-as-a-Service offering and the co-founder of NodeAZ, Arizona’s Node.JS user group. Prior to Nodester, Chris was the founder of Teleku, a cloud communications platform, which was acquired by Voxeo last year. He is still the Director of Business Development for Voxeo Labs which includes Tropo.com, SMSified.com, and Phono.com.
Visnu Pitiyanuvath
Visnu mistakenly formatted his first harddrive when he was 11 and regretably got into war dialing the year caller id was introduced. He’s been a CEO before and had the wrong idea that organizing node.js knockout wouldn’t be that hard. His favorite number is e.
Pascal Finette
Pascal is Director of Mozilla’s WebFWD accelerator program, where he works with the wider community inventing the future of the Web. Prior to Mozilla, he led eBay’s Platform Solutions Group, consulted a bunch of entrepreneurs on their strategy & operations and invested into startups, among other things.
Andy Baio
I work with Expert Labs, helped build Kickstarter, founded Upcoming.org, produced Kind of Bloop, and blog stuff at Waxy.org. P.S. I love you.
Ara Pehlivanian
Montreal —Front-end developer for HP Cloud Services. fanboy.
Henrik Berggren
Luis Robles
Luis works with cloud computing, software, and enterprise companies. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2010, Luis was a Senior Product Manager at VMware where he helped build out various product and operations initiatives. Previously, he was involved with other Silicon Valley start-ups. Luis has BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Conrad Wai
Conrad Wai is the head of Jump Ventures, a firm that helps startups with growth challenges through a unique combination of design, social research, and business planning.
Conrad’s background is in technology; he worked in the Valley during the dot com boom (and bust), and received a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction from Stanford University. He blogs about the tech and venture landscape at http://somethingventured.me.
Dion Almaer
Dion Almaer is the Vice President of Mobile Architecture at Walmart where he has the pleasure of working with Ben Galbraith. The pair co-founded Ajaxian.com.
Dion has been a technologist and a developer writing Web applications since it took over from Gopher. He has been fortunate enough to speak around the world, has published many articles, a book, and of course covers life the universe and everything on his blog.
He has been called a human aggregator, and you can see that in full force if you follow him on Twitter.
Darcy Laycock
Ruby developer from Perth, Western Australia. By days, works at The Frontier Group and by night helps run Rails Rumble, handle Youth Tree’s web infrastructure and studies at the University of Western Australia.
Joe Hewitt
Joe Hewitt is currently working independently on tools for developers. When at Facebook, he developed the Facebook iPhone app and the first iPhone-optimized Facebook website. He was the developer of the Firebug developer tool and a member of the team that founded the Firefox browser.
HJ Choi
Hwan-Joon is a software engineer at Tapjoy, where he hacks around with ruby and javascript. When not referring to himself in the third person, I enjoy creating iPhone games with Grizzly Panda, even though secretly I wish I were better at Android programming.
Keith Hanson
Co-founder of Twin Engine Labs, a web and mobile development shop with a unique process specifically tailored to entrepreneurs.
Rebecca Murphey
I’m a JavaScript application developer at Toura Mobile, the co-host of the yayQuery podcast, a co-organizer of TXJS, and the author of the open-source jQuery Fundamentals. I’ve spoken on emerging JavaScript topics at several conferences, including JSConf and JSConf.eu, and blog at rmurphey.com.
Jeffrey Kalmikoff
VP of Product at SimpleGeo. Startup advisor. Formerly CCO at Threadless and Dir. of Design & UX at Digg. Lover of design, business, food, and metal.
Mayumi Matsuno
Currently the Director of Product Marketing at Mozilla, pursuing a Master’s at Stanford, and previously a product marketeer @ Google. Loves combing through science journals to find ways to apply nature to human goods and tech services.
Dave Werner
Producing video games at Making Fun by day, creating stuff at at Okay Samurai by night.
Isaac Schlueter
Isaac has been a node regular since the 0.0.x days. He wrote npm, prefers coffee to tea, and lives in Oakland. He hopes to live long enough to live forever, or at least to see the total domination of Node.js as the universal high-level programming platform of Earth.
Rahim Sonawalla
Rahim Sonawalla is a Developer Evangelist at Twilio. He spends his time traveling the nation attending Startup Weekends, hackathons, and helping people make awesome things. When not on the road, he calls Los Angeles home.
Jake Quist
Co-Founder and CEO of Zillabyte. We make big data analysis easy.
Amrita Thakur
Amrita is a designer, developer and a closet geek. She is a recent graduate of the Learning, Design and Technology program at Stanford’s School of Education where she has worked with Motion Math, Togetherville Inc and Ricoh Innovation Labs. She is a co-founder for Isles of Time, a journaling app for kids and on the founding team of 21stCenturylit.org. She holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science. She worked as an engineer for most of her career before switching to Product Management. Amrita is currently a Product Manager at Teachscape helping develop technologies in the educational space.
Chad Dyer
Chad manages the technology systems and tools used internally at Sequoia Capital.
Christian Sanz
Geeklist’s Co-founder & CTO (@gklst). Former CTO at Storify & DECA.tv. Founding Chief Architect @ Break.com and Platform Engineer @ Disney/Go.com #hacker #ux #chileno
Samantha Quist
Samantha is former Director of Marketing at social media data aggregation and distribution startup Gnip and former Product Marketing Manager at Google. She moved back to the Bay Area in August and is working on a new startup.
Andrew Hill
Andrew helps to connect the world’s professionals as a product manager at LinkedIn. Before that, he built enterprise software for large law firms at IntApp. He has degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Felix Geisendörfer
Nodejs core contributor and co-founder of transloadit. Obsessed with squirrels.
Artur Bergman
Artur Bergman, hacker and technologist at-large, is the director of engineering at Wikia, supporting its mission to compile and index the world’s knowledge. He is also an enthusiastic apologist for federated identity and a board member of the OpenID Foundation. His current interests include semantic search, large scale infrastructure, open source development, federated instant messaging, neurotransmitters, and the future of cyborgs.
Rafael Corrales
Rafael is the CEO of LearnBoost, built entirely in node.js. LearnBoost is creating the next generation of education tools on the web.
Manish Patel
Manish works on early stage consumer and technology investments for Highland Capital. Prior to that he spent a number of years at Google where he led the company’s 3D mapping and advanced geo-imagery programs, built some of the key components of AdWords and AdSense, and started a couple experimental initiatives like GoogleTV. Before he figured out how to get paid by playing with computers, Manish worked at a non-profit focused on immigration issues. Manish graduated from Stanford where he studied Engineering, Art, and Economics.
Dave Pacheco
Old-school software engineer.
Deepak Thukral
Deepak worked with startups like TheManCan, FoxyCart and Eviscape. Beside his telekinesis abilities he is a good hacker and technology invasionist at Fagbokforlaget
Patrick Meenan
Patrick is the founder of webpagetest.org and is part of the team at Google responsible for making the web faster.
Erin Mckean
Founder, Wordnik.com. Recovering lexicographer. Persistent dressblogger. Code-adjacent.
Timothy Lee
Tim works with mobile, cloud and software companies. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2009, Tim worked at Google where he managed European marketing and product launch strategy. While at Google, he also conceived the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Earlier, Tim worked at McKinsey & Company in London and at microprocessor IP company, ARM, in Cambridge UK. Tim has a Masters in Electrical and Information Engineering from Cambridge University, and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
Reuben Katz
ceo & co-founder – @gklst – Serial entrepreneur x6, seed investor, mentor & dad. I enjoy helping founders build their dreams and building our own at geeklist :)
Jason Calacanis
In 2009 I started angel investing, with the five-year goal of becoming one of the 10 most helpful, and therefore sought after, angel investors on the planet. 15 investments and 18 months later I think I’m half way there. When I invest in a startup company I have three specific goals:
- Use their product and give feedback.
- Bring the first 10,000 users to the service.
- Help the founder(s) raise their next round of capital.
Kyle Banker
10gen. Philosophy. Worker for Peace. Author of MongoDB in Action. Bach enthusiast.
Jeff Lawson
Jeff Lawson is CEO and Cofounder of Twilio, the technology company revolutionizing telecommunications with simple tools for programmatically making and receiving text messages and phone calls. Jeff brings over 12 years of entrepreneurial experience with product, engineering and business background to the company. Jeff was awarded a 2010 TechFollows Award for Disruptive Innovation, and was named as number 18 on Business Insider’s 2010 Silicon Valley Top 100 List. Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff held founding executive roles for NineStar, StubHub, and Versity.com.
