The jQuery Foundation Board of Directors

  • Dave Methvin

    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.

  • Kris Borchers

    Executive Director

    Kris Borchers is Executive Director of the jQuery Foundation. He is also a member of the jQuery UI team where he helps with both maintaining the existing code as well as new development.

  • Scott González

    jQuery UI Lead | Secretary | Infrastructure

    Scott González is a web developer living in York, PA. As the jQuery UI Project Lead, he puts a lot of effort into keeping jQuery UI efficient, consistent, and accessible, as well as adjusting the roadmap to meet the ever-changing needs of the community. Scott also works with browser vendors and standards bodies to make the Web a better place for everyone, not just jQuery users.

  • Jörn Zaefferer

    QUnit Lead | jQuery UI Dev Lead | Infrastructure

    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.

  • Adam Sontag

    Content Lead | Developer Relations Lead | Outreach Director

    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.

  • Yehuda Katz

    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.

  • Rick Waldron

    jQuery Core | Standards

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

  • Dan Heberden

    Infrastructure

    Dan is a front end engineer for Bazaarvoice. He works remotely from Portland, Oregon. As a member of the jQuery team, Dan assists with the technology needs, events, and other various needs of the project. He loves helping with open source projects and enjoys teaching others how to write great code.

  • Corey Frang

    Infrastructure Lead

    Corey is an active contributor to most of the jQuery teams and is active in the 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.

  • Ralph Whitbeck

    jQuery Mobile

    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.

  • Anne-Gaelle Colom

    jQuery Mobile | Content

    Anne-Gaelle Colom is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster in London, UK. She is passionate about the use of technology in Higher Education as well as the Web and Mobile world. Anne-Gaelle joined the jQuery Mobile team in October 2011 to become the documentation lead a few months later.

  • Mike Sherov

    jQuery UI | jQuery Core

    Mike is a Senior Software Engineer at Behance, from Plainview, New York. He is involved in development and testing efforts across multiple jQuery projects. Mike focuses his efforts around the CSS/JS interactions and works with the standards bodies and browser vendors to move the web forward.

  • John Resig

    Emeritus Member | Creator of the jQuery Library

    John is 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.

The jQuery Foundation Board of Advisors

  • Matt Mullenweg

    Founding developer of WordPress | Founder of Automattic

    Matt Mullenweg is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web, and Vanity Fair’s Next Establishment. He is the founding developer of WordPress, the Open Source software used by over 22% of the web, including this site.

  • Karl Swedberg

    Content Lead

    Karl Swedberg (@kswedberg) is author of the definitive Learning jQuery blog and co-author of Learning jQuery and The jQuery Reference Guide books by Packt Publishing. The jQuery Reference Guide is the foundation for api.jquery.com, which Karl helped design and build. A member of the jQuery Content team, Karl is actively involved in maintaining content on all jQuery sites, especially the jQuery core API site.

  • Alex Sexton

    JavaScript Developer | Curator of TXJS

    Alex Sexton (@SlexAxton) is a JavaScript Developer from Austin, TX. He's a member of the Modernizr core team, former co-host of the yayQuery podcast and author of many open source JavaScript libraries including the Jed Toolkit, and yepnope.js. He focuses primarily on the challenges involved in creating large single-page applications, especially those that use jQuery.

Support Staff

  • Joel G. Kinney

    Legal Counsel | Fort Point Legal

    Joel is the founder of Fort Point Legal, a Boston based law firm dedicated to serving the needs of the open source, internet startup and entrepreneur communities. In addition to his advocacy for open source companies, he also mentors tech and other startups in business competitions such as Mass Challenge. Joel is often found on his bicycle traveling between coworking spaces, meetups and anywhere else hackers are found.

  • Derek Jenks

    CMP | Event Planning Concepts

    Derek Jenks is a Certified Meeting Professional with extensive experience in the hospitality management field and also holds a degree in Hospitality Management: Meeting Planning and Organization as well as a degree in Business Management. He has deep knowledge of the meeting planning industry as well as the logistics and execution of exhibitions. He is a member of the International Association of Exhibitions and Events (IAEE), the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA), Meeting Planners International (MPI) and the Society of Government Meeting Planners (SGMP).

The jQuery 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 Allan

    Infrastructure

  • Julian Aubourg

    Core, Standards

  • Jay Blanchard

    Developer Relations

  • Kevin Boudloche

    Developer Relations

  • Kim Cooperrider

    Events

  • Isaac Durazo

    Outreach (Design)

  • Jasper de Groot

    Mobile Lead

  • Oleg Gaidarenko

    Core

  • Richard Gibson

    Core

  • Michał Gołębiowski

    Core

  • James M. Greene

    QUnit

  • Felix Nagel

    UI

  • Ryan Neufeld

    Infrastructure

  • Addy Osmani

    Content

  • Alex Schmitz

    Mobile

  • Gabriel Schulhof

    Mobile

  • Ghislain Seguin

    Mobile

  • Craig Sharkie

    Events (Pacific-Asia)

  • Timo "Krinkle" Tijhof

    QUnit | Infrastructure

  • Adam Ulvi

    Infrastructure

  • TJ VanToll

    UI

  • Timmy Willison

    Core

  • Keith Wood

    Developer Relations

  • Rafael Xavier

    UI | Events (Brazil)

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

    Core

  • Mike Alsup

    API, Forum, and Plugins

  • Rey Bango

    Developer Relations

  • Paul Bakaus

    jQuery UI Creator

  • John Bender

    Mobile

  • Tyler Benzinger

    Mobile

  • Kin Blas

    Mobile

  • Nate Cavanaugh

    Design and Web

  • Darcy Clarke

    Design and Web

  • Chris Coyier

    Design

  • Alex Dovenmuehle

    UI

  • Nate Eagle

    Design

  • Ariel Flesler

    Core

  • Ryan Gibbons

    Infrastructure

  • Skye Giordano

    Design

  • Maurice Gottlieb

    Mobile

  • Marc Grabanski

    UI

  • Klaus Hartl

    UI

  • Mike Hostetler

    Infrastructure and Operations

  • Paul Irish

    Standards

  • Scott Jehl

    Mobile

  • Sean Koole

    Content

  • Chris Lea

    Infrastructure

  • Jeff Lembeck

    Mobile

  • Cody Lindley

    Developer Relations

  • Mat Marquis

    Mobile

  • Doug Neiner

    Design

  • Todd Parker

    Mobile

  • David Petersen

    UI

  • Stefan Petre

    Creator of Interface Plugin

  • Abby Phoenix

    Events

  • Tane Piper

    Developer Relations

  • Corey Quinn

    Web

  • Philippe Rathé

    QUnit

  • Jason Scott

    Mobile

  • Boaz Sender

    Content, Design, and Web

  • David Serduke

    Core

  • Bradley Sepos

    Design

  • Jonathan Sharp

    Infrastructure

  • Remy Sharp

    Developer Relations

  • Leah Silber

    Events

  • Nate Tassinari

    Events

  • Patty Toland

    Mobile

  • Maggie Costello Wachs

    Mobile

  • Wesley Walser

    QUnit

  • Richard D. Worth

    Executive Director, UI