Team

The jQuery Project is run by a distributed group of volunteers that all want to see jQuery become the best JavaScript tool possible.

jQuery Board

The jQuery Board makes up the voting membership of jQuery and is the body responsible for approving expenditures for the jQuery project and approving any legally binding contracts between the jQuery project and another party. The voting membership may create policies to govern itself in the performance of these duties. Such policies require a majority vote of the entire voting membership. Members of the voting membership, are added by a 2/3 affirmative vote by the voting membership.

Corey Frang (Chicago, United States)

Infrastructure Lead

Corey is an active contributor to most of the jQuery teams and is active in jQuery community on IRC, and Stack Overflow. He restructured the effects modules in both UI and Core, maintains the jQuery Color Animations plugin, and puppeteers the new jQuery servers. He hopes that his work will “effect” your websites positively.

Scott González (North Carolina, United States)

jQuery UI Project Lead
Secretary

Scott is a web developer living in Raleigh, NC. As the jQuery UI Project Lead, he puts a lot of effort into maintaining the existing code base to make sure it is small, efficient and consistent. Scott also leads the accessibility team and works with new contributors to help improve the project and the community.

Dan Heberden (Oregon, United States)

Technology Lead

Dan Heberden is a web consultant based in Portland, Oregon. As a member of the jQuery team, Dan oversees the technology needs of the project. He loves helping with open source projects and enjoys teaching others how to write great code.

Yehuda Katz (California, United States)

Standards Lead
Treasurer

Yehuda is a developer living in San Francisco, CA who maintained the web site Visual jQuery, and published the Visual jQuery Magazine. Additionally, he’s a frequent contributor to the jQuery Blog and promoter of good practices within the jQuery core. Yehuda is a member of the Ruby on Rails Core Team, and spends much of his time traveling to promote and evangelize both jQuery and Rails.

Dave Methvin (United States)

jQuery Core Lead
President

Dave is a long-time contributor to jQuery, providing extensive help on the jQuery bug tracker and in the jQuery discussion forums. As the lead of the jQuery dev team he works to ensure high quality, timely, releases of the library, organizes the planning and development efforts of the team, and generally drives the direction of the library.

Todd Parker (Boston, United States)

jQuery Mobile Lead

Todd, a principal at Filament Group Inc., is a jQuery board member and project and design lead for the jQuery Mobile team. He is involved with the design of the ThemeRoller application and CSS class frameworks. Todd is co-author of the Peachpit book “Designing With Progressive Enhancement”, contributor to the O’Reilly “jQuery Cookbook” and frequent presenter on the topics of mobile, progressive enhancement, accessibility, and responsive web design.

John Resig (Boston, United States)

John was the original creator of the jQuery library. He works with the jQuery dev team and the jQuery board to help set the direction of the project

Leah Silber (California, United States)

Events Lead
Community and Marketing Committee Chair

Leah is responsible for jQuery fundraising and event management, as well as for online marketing and sponsorship initiatives, like the 14 Days of jQuery. She co-founded Tilde, an open source startup in San Francisco. She previously worked as a consultant for clients in the tech sector, and was employed managing the Community Marketing and Events department at Engine Yard. She runs GoGaRuCo, the annual San Francisco Ruby Conference, and in 2010, started and ran the Ruby Summer of Code program. She is originally from Brooklyn, NY and now lives in San Francisco, CA with her husband.

Adam Sontag (New York, United States)

Director of Developer Relations and Marketing

Adam J. Sontag is a New York City-based developer with Boston’s Bocoup. He’s the Developer Relations lead for jQuery and jQuery UI and co-host of the yayQuery podcast. In other words, he’s dedicated to keeping the jQuery project in sync with the community’s needs and wants.

Rick Waldron (Boston, United States)

Rick Waldron works at Bocoup in Boston, where he is a JavaScript enthusiast and evangelist and jQuery core committer.

Ralph Whitbeck (New York, United States)

Ralph is a Senior Developer at appendTo, LLC where he works with an awesome team of designers and developers delivering Front-end code for clients. Example projects include responsive web, widget development, product development, HTML5/CSS3, and much more. Ralph has been a member of the board since October 2009.

Richard D. Worth (Washington, D.C., United States)

Executive Director

Richard D. Worth is Executive Director of the jQuery Foundation. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area and works for Bocoup, training mobile and web developers in JavaScript, jQuery, and jQuery UI.

Jörn Zaefferer (Cologne, Germany)

Testing Lead
jQuery UI Development Lead

Jörn is a freelance web developer, consultant and trainer, based in Cologne, Germany.

Jörn evolved jQuery’s testsuite into QUnit, a JavaScript unit testing framework, and maintains it. He created and maintains a number of popular plugins.

As a jQuery UI development lead, he focuses on the development of new plugins, widgets and utilities.

Team

The jQuery team is made up of subteams working on various areas of the project. For example there are subteams that work on Mobile, Core, UI, Events, etc. Without the contributions of the following people we could not exist:

Clark A Technology

Julian Aubourg Core, Standards

John Bender Mobile

Jay Blanchard Developer Relations

Kris Borchers UI

Kevin Boudloche Developer Relations

Anne-Gaelle Colom Mobile, Content

Kim Cooperider Events

Jasper De Groot Mobile

Richard Gibson Core

Maurice Gottlieb Mobile

Scott Jehl Mobile

Jeff Lembeck Mobile

Mat Marquis Mobile

Ryan Neufeld Infrastructure

Addy Osmani Content

David Petersen UI

Jason Scott Mobile

Alex Schmitz Mobile

Gabriel Schulhof Mobile

Ghislain Seguin Mobile

Mike Sherov Core

Karl Swedberg Content Lead

Timo “Krinkle” Tijhof Testing

Timmy Willison Core

Keith Wood Developer Relations

Rafael Xavier UI

Past Team Members

These are the members of the jQuery team alumni. We recognize them for their contributions to the jQuery Project. They may not be as active in the project as they were before but they are still considered key contributors for the jQuery Project.

Brandon Aaron (Dallas, Texas, United States)
Core

Mike Alsup (New York, United States)
API, Forum, and Plugins

Rey Bango (Florida, United States)
Developer Relations

Paul Bakaus (Germany)
jQuery UI Creator

Tyler Benzinger
Mobile

Kin Blas
Mobile

Nate Cavanaugh (California, United States)
Design

Darcy Clarke (Toronto, Canada)
Design

Chris Coyier
Design

Alex Dovenmuehle
UI

Nate Eagle
Design

Ariel Flesler (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Core

Ryan Gibbons
Technology

Skye Giordano (Missouri, United States)
Design

Klaus Hartl (Berlin, Germany)
UI

Mike Hostetler (Colorado, United States)
Infrastructure and Operations

Paul Irish
Standards

Sean Koole
Content

Chris Lea
Technology

Cody Lindley (Idaho, United States)
Developer Relations

Doug Neiner
Design

Stefan Petre (Romania)
Creator of the Interface Plugin

Tane Piper (Edinburgh, UK)
Developer Relations

Abby Phoenix
Events

Corey Quinn
Web

Philippe Rathé
QUnit

David Serduke (California, United States)
Helped with the 1.2.2 and 1.2.3 releases

Bradley Sepos (Ohio, United States)
Design

Alex Sexton
Content

Jonathan Sharp (Omaha, Nebraska, United States)
Infrastructure

Remy Sharp (UK)
Developer Relations

Nate Tassinari
Events

Patty Toland
Mobile

Maggie Costello Wachs
Mobile

Wesley Walser
Testing