The jQuery Project is run by a distributed group of volunteers that all want to see jQuery become the best JavaScript tool possible.
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.
Brandon Aaron (Dallas, Texas, United States)
Brandon has contributed numerous bug fixes, new features and performance enhancements since 1.0. In addition to the work done on the Core, he’s written many plugins such as Live Query, bgiframe and Dimensions to name a few.
Ariel Flesler (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Ariel joined the team during the 1.2.4 release. He has focused a lot of effort on making optimizations to the code base and performance. In addition to being very active in the community, he has several popular jQuery plugins.
Jörn Zaefferer (Cologne, Germany)
Joern 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. As a member of the evangelism team he’s working to help people discover jQuery; actively trying to find and promote jQuery to new users.
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.
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.
Remy Sharp (Brighton, United Kingdom)
Remy Sharp is a web developer working for himself as Left Logic in the UK. Having long nurtured a passion for JavaScript and playing with jQuery since 2006, Remy now runs jQuery for Designers and tries to spread lots of love for jQuery, via blogs, public speaking, screencasts and books (he’s a co-author of the jQuery Cookbook too!).
Paul Irish (Boston, 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.
jQuery UI Team
Paul Bakaus, (Mainz, Germany)
jQuery UI Creator and Labs Lead
Paul is the CTO of the germany-based startup Dextrose AG, and his corporate work mostly focusses on UX, UI and tricky JavaScript challenges. In the past, he was largely responsible for creating the dimensions plugin (which is now in core) and worked together with Stefan Petre on the rich effects and UI library Interface. He then went on to start jQuery UI and was the driving force behind many of its plugins. Currently, he’s actively experimenting with new UI patterns as labs lead and works on a jQuery powered game engine.
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.
Klaus Hartl (Berlin, Germany)
Klaus has been one of the most vocal supporters of jQuery and unobtrusive design on the jQuery mailing list. His ability to expertly explain quality, unobtrusive, solutions to problems is atremendous boon to the jQuery project. Klaus is working with both the Evangelism & Dev teams to help promote jQuery and expand its reach, as well as maintaining the Thickbox and Tabs plugins. He will also be spearheading the effort to make Tabs an official plugin.
Other Contributors to UI
View the complete list of contributors to the jQuery UI project.
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.
Infrastructure and Design Team
The web team is fully responsible for designing and maintaining the jQuery web site.
Scott Jehl (Boston, United States)
Scott is responsible for the revised jQuery logo and redesign of the main jQuery site.
Mike Hostetler (Colorado, United States)
Mike is responsible for setting up, and maintaining, the jQuery Plugin repository.
Jonathan Sharp (Nebraska, United States)
Jonathan is a freelance developer living in Plattsmouth, Nebraska and the founder of Out West Media LLC providing custom jQuery and client side development. Jonathan’s passion for jQuery dates back to before it had a version number and has only grown over the years that have followed. As a member of the Web and Design Team Jonathan provides infrastructure and development support to the project as well as authoring, speaking and training.
Events Team
The events team is responsible for planning and executing jQuery events and conferences.
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
- 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.