Scott González (North Carolina, United States)

jQuery UI Development Lead

Scott is a web developer living in Raleigh, NC. As a jQuery UI Development 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)

Infrastructure Lead

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

Paul Irish (California, United States)

Paul Irish is a front-end developer who loves the web. He is a developer advocate on Google Chrome’s Developer Relations team as well as jQuery’s. He develops the HTML5 Boilerplate, the HTML5/CSS3 feature detection library Modernizr, CSS3 Please, and other bits and bobs of open source code. He wants you to be awesome.

Scott Jehl (Boston, United States)

jQuery Mobile Development Lead

Scott was responsible for the revised jQuery logo and redesign of the main jQuery site. Scott currently works with Todd Parker at Filament Group, Inc. and specializes in usability and accessibility. He is a co-author on the New Riders’ book Designing with Progressive Enhancement.

Yehuda Katz (California, United States)

Standards Lead

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)

Dave is a long-time contributor to jQuery, providing extensive help on the jQuery bug tracker and in the jQuery discussion forums. As a member of the jQuery team he works to provide test cases, triage bugs, and commit to jQuery core.

Doug Neiner (Western Mass, United States)

Design Lead

Doug Neiner is responsible for providing design direction and development support as the existing jQuery sites are updated and as new sites are launched. With a love for graphic design and a passion for new technology, Doug is an active contributor to the open source community. He has released various projects including In-Field Labels jQuery Plugin and Downloadify client side file generation. Doug is the Senior Designer at appendTo and is also an editor at Fuel Your Coding. To relax, Doug enjoys photography, Halo multi-player and spending time with his awesome wife and wonderful kids.

Todd Parker (Boston, United States)

jQuery Mobile Lead
jQuery UI Design Lead

Todd, a principal at Filament Group Inc., is lead of the jQuery UI design team with a focus on creating a coherent visual and interaction design system for the widget library. He is also involved with the design of the ThemeRoller application and jQuery UI CSS class framework.

John Resig (Boston, United States)

jQuery Core Lead

John is in charge of managing the direction of the jQuery library. This involves taking a critical look at existing (and expected) features and making informed decisions about them. He’s also in charge of managing development resources and time spent on the different aspects of the project.

Leah Silber (California, United States)

Events Lead
Sponsorships Lead

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 works for Strobe, an open source company focused on building technologies for the mobile web, as their Director of Marketing. 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)

Developer Relations Lead

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.

Karl Swedberg (Michigan, United States)

Content Lead

Karl is a front-end developer at Fusionary Media in Grand Rapids, Michigan. As a member of the developer relations team, he focuses on documentation and education—maintaining api.jquery.com, leading training sessions, and writing tutorials—to help people better understand how jQuery works. Karl co-authored Learning jQuery Third Edition and jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide, on which the jQuery API site is based, and maintains the Learning jQuery blog.

Ralph Whitbeck (New York, United States)

Ralph leads the Plugins, Forum and Podcast subteams. On the podcast subteam he is a co-host of the Official jQuery Podcast which interviews key members of the jQuery community. Ralph is a senior web application engineer at BrandLogic Corporation where he builds web applications with jQuery for Fortune 500 companies.

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

jQuery UI Project Lead
Conservancy Liaison

Richard D. Worth is a UI Developer living in Northern VA (Wash DC suburbs). He is the Project Lead for jQuery UI, and has authored or co-authored the current versions of jQuery UI Dialog, Progressbar, Selectables, and Slider plugins. Richard also contributes to the design of the jQuery UI API, automated and manual tests for UI components, and documentation.

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.