Development Team

The development team maintains the core aspect of jQuery (the core library, test suite, documentation, and bug tracking).

John Resig (Boston, United States)

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.

Jörn Zaefferer (Cologne, Germany)

Jörn has been a driving force of the jQuery development process, contributing numerous bug fixes and pushing out many of the 1.0.x releases. He evolved jQuery’s testsuite into QUnit, a JavaScript unit testing framework, and maintains it. He created and maintains a number of popular plugins.

Yehuda Katz (California, United States)

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.

jQuery UI Team

The UI team maintains the jQuery UI code base, the UI community, and develops new UI widgets.

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

jQuery UI Release Manager

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

Scott González

jQuery UI Development Lead

Scott González is a web developer living in Raleigh, NC. He puts a lot of effort into keeping jQuery UI, and especially core, small, efficient and consistent. In addition to being a development lead, he is also the jQuery UI accessibility team lead and contributed large parts to the dialog plugin.

Jörn Zaefferer (Cologne, Germany)

jQuery UI Development Lead

In addition to his work as a jQuery Core contributor (see above), Jörn is a jQuery UI development lead, focusing on the development of new plugins, widgets and utilities. He also keeps jQuery UI running on TestSwarm.

Todd Parker

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.

Other Contributors to UI

View the complete list of contributors to the jQuery UI project.

Operations Team

The operations team is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the jQuery project and events.

Mike Hostetler (Colorado, United States)

Mike Hostetler is an inventor, entrepreneur, programmer and proud father. Having worked with web technologies since the mid 1990’s, Mike has had extensive experience developing web applications with PHP and JavaScript. Currently, Mike works as the CEO of appendTo, LLC, the jQuery Company, based in Denver, Colorado. Heavily involved in Open Source, Mike is a member of the jQuery Core team, leads the QCubed PHP5 Framework project, and participates in the Drupal project. When not in front of a computer, Mike enjoys hiking, fly-fishing, snowboarding and spending time with his family..

Leah Silber (California, United States)

Leah lives in San Francisco, California, working for a large Ruby on Rails company, where she is primarily responsible for developer and community relations. She also produces an annual Ruby on Rails conference in San Francisco. Leah’s been a long-time jQuery fan and was an editor of the Visual jQuery Magazine. As a member of the events team she works on event logistics, fundraising and sponsorships.

Past Members

• Brandon Aaron (Dallas, Texas, United States) Core Contributor
• Paul Bakaus (Germany) jQuery UI Creator
• Remy Sharp (UK) Developer Relations
• David Serduke (California, United States)
  Helped with the 1.2.2 and 1.2.3 releases.
• Stefan Petre (Romania)
  Creator of the Interface Plugin.
• Nate Cavanaugh (California, United States)
  Creator of the jQuery 1.1 site redesign.
• Tane Piper (Edinburgh, UK)
  Member of the Evangelism team.
• Bradley Sepos (Ohio, United States)
  Member of the jQuery design team.
• Skye Giordano (Missouri, United States)
  Member of the jQuery design team.
• Ariel Flesler (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  Member of the Core Development Team.
• Klaus Hartl (Berlin, Germany)
  Member of the jQuery UI Team.

Developer Relations Team

This group is responsible for communicating the desires of the jQuery users back to the dev/web/design teams, while at the same time, going out of their way to bring jQuery to users who haven’t found it yet.

Rey Bango (Florida, United States)

Rey Bango is a consultant living in South Florida, specializing in web application development. Known for his passion for jQuery, approachable demeanor, and community-centric focus, Rey works tirelessly to promote the benefits of the jQuery project and assist the community by ensuring they have the information necessary to be successful. He’s well-respected within the JavaScript community for his desire to promote unity and cooperation within the various JavaScript projects and his contributions as a writer for Ajaxian.com.

Karl Swedberg (Michigan, United States)

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 1.3 and jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide, on which the jQuery API site is based, and maintains the Learning jQuery blog.

Cody Lindley (Idaho, United States)

Cody Lindley is a client-side engineer (aka front-end developer) and recovering Flash developer. He has an extensive background working professionally (10+ years) with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and client-side performance techniques as it pertains to web development. If he is not yielding client-side code he is likely toying with interface/interaction design, PHP, MVC frameworks, iPhone development, jQuery, or authoring material and speaking at various conferences. When not sitting in front of a computer, it’s a sure bet he is hanging out with his wife & kids in Boise, Idaho, training for triathlons, skiing, mountain biking, road biking, alpine climbing, reading, watching movies, or debating the rational evidence for a Christian worldview. Currently he is working full-time for Ning (www.ning.com).

Ralph Whitbeck (New York, United States)

Ralph is a senior web application engineer at BrandLogic Corporation where he builds rich internet applications with jQuery for Fortune 500 companies. Ralph is a coauthor for the upcoming jQuery Cookbook from O’Reilly. He is currently organizing and planning an official jQuery podcast. The podcast, which is slated to begin by mid-November 2009, will include interviews with key players in the jQuery community and conversation about what’s happening in the community during the week.

Paul Irish (California, United States)

Paul is an active member of the jQuery community participating in, and administrating, the jQuery IRC channels and frequently blogging about jQuery and its functionality. He is also the co-creator of the yayQuery podcast. Paul joined the jQuery team to help produce videos for the 14 Days of jQuery and to move the API documentation to its new home for the 1.4 release. As a member of the developer relations team he will work to make sure that the expectations of developers are being met in jQuery itself, helping the core team to communicate clearly and effectively.

Infrastructure and Design Team

The web team is fully responsible for designing and maintaining the jQuery online properties including http://jquery.com and http://jqueryui.com.

Jonathan Sharp (Nebraska, United States)

Jonathan Sharp has been passionate about the internet and web development since 1996 and currently lives in Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Jonathan became involved with The jQuery Project in early 2006 when he first started using jQuery in developing enterprise applications. Jonathan works on Web & Infrastructure Team. Jonathan is also a co-author of the jQuery Cookbook (O’Reilly 2009) and presents on jQuery at conferences such as The jQuery Conference (2008/9) and StackOverflow Dev Days, Austin. Jonathan also runs the Omaha jQuery Meetup and speaks at other local groups and events. In additional to speaking, Jonathan is the President of appendTo which provides Enterprise jQuery Training, Support and Consulting services.

Scott Jehl (Boston, United States)

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 accessability. He is a co-author on the New Riders’ book Designing with Progressive Enhancement.

Doug Neiner (Western Mass, United States)

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.

Plugins Team

The plugins team is responsible for maintaining official jQuery plugins.

Mike Alsup (New York, United States)

Mike is a developer living in New York and is responsible for maintaining the official Form Plugin for jQuery. He has worked quite extensively to unify and test the Ajax-form-submission process into a single plugin. Additionally, much of his work has trickled back into improving the quality, and consistency, of the core jQuery Ajax code. Mike has also written several other popular plugins including BlockUI, Cycle, Taconite and the Media Plugin.