ABOUT
An awful lot of time and effort has gone into making lift the great bit of software it is today - so, to honor this effort, we felt it only right to honor those who have generously donated time to the project.
TEAMS
CURRENT TEAM
David Pollak – Founder, BDFL
David Pollak has been writing commercial software since 1977. He wrote the first real-time spreadsheet and the worlds highest performance spreadsheet engine. Since 1996, David has been using and devising web development tools. As CTO of CMP Media, David oversaw the first large-scale deployment of WebLogic. David was CTO and VPE at Cenzic, a web application security company. David has also developed numerous commercial projects in Ruby on Rails. In 2007, David founded the Lift Web Framework open source project.
Marius Danciu
Marius has been a committer for more than an year now contributing with design and development of new features as well as fixing defects. I discovered Scala about 2-3 years ago and coming from Java world it's needless to say how much that impressed me. For the past 6 years I've been architecting,designing and developing server side Java applications orbiting around synchronization technologies such as SyncML. Before that I've been doing C/C++ programming.
Jorge Ortiz
Jorge Ortiz has programmed in C/C++, Java, Ruby, and Python before settling on Scala as his language of choice. He presented Scala and Lift at JavaOne 2008's ScriptBowl. He has taught a class on Scala at Stanford University and one on Lift with David Pollak.
Timothy Perrett
Technical Architect / Geek / Open source junkie - specializes in systems integration for manufacturing and workflow systems. Has been working with Scala since the end of 07' and before that was working with Java, Ruby and Objective-C extensively for a number of years. Also a repentant Rails convert. Whilst not working on Lift I work for an Israeli startup designing systems for techno-marketing and on-demand publishing.
Tyler Weir
Currently a co-founder of Roboboogie Studios. In my former jobs I worked on compilers, desktop business apps and web applications. Along with Derek and Marius, I'm a co-author of the upcoming Lift book.
Derek Chen-Becker
A senior network engineer for a large company. I've been doing software development for over 14 years, with 12 years of Java experience. I started working with Scala 2 years ago and I've been working heavily with Lift since version 0.2 came out.
Debby Meredith
I'm a currently an engineering management consultant and a venture partner at JAFCO Ventures. I work hands-on with company founders, helping to assemble world class teams, architect software products and roadmaps, and establish operational processes to build success from the beginning. Previously, I was a venture partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, VP Eng at Netscape, VP Eng at Collabra Software, VP Eng at Slate Software, and had key technical positions at Metaphor Computer Systems, Logitech, and Bell Laboratories.
Heiko Seeberger
Heiko is an OSGi expert and Scala enthusiast. His main focus is developing enterprise applications additionally using Java, AspectJ, Eclipse RCP, Spring, JEE and - of course - Lift. More than fifteen years of professional experience in IT consulting and software development he is also an active open source committer and regularly shares his expertise in articles and talks.
Jonas Bonér
Jonas Bonér is a programmer, mentor, speaker and author who spends most of his time consulting, hacking Scala as well as lecturing and speaking at developer conferences world-wide. He has worked at Terracotta, the JRockit JVM at BEA and is an active contributor to the Open Source community; most notably created the AspectWerkz Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) framework, committer to the Terracotta JVM clustering technology and been part of the Eclipse AspectJ team. He is a passionate Scala and FP enthusiast and a programming languages geek in general.
David Bernard
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Kris Nuttycombe
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Eric Torreborre
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ALUMNI TEAM
As Lift has grown, the team has expanded and contracted over time. However, the work done by team members that are not currently active also deserves credit, so they are listed here as Alumni members.
Steve Jenson
Steve added the XMPP and AMQP components of Lift. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and cats and works at Twitter, Inc.
Daniel Green
Daniel Green is a FLOSS advocate and musician from the Boston area.
Alex Boisvert
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Alex Payne
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Burak Emir
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Carsten
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Philipp Schmidt
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Maciek Starzyk
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Julien Wetterwald
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Stepan Koltsov
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Viktor Klang
A Senior Systems Analyst / Architect / Project Manager / Developer / whatnot at a large company. I've been doing enterprise-level software development the past 7 years, I've gone through quite a few programming languages but for the past 9 years it's been Java, and the past 2 years I've been into Scala adventures.
Chris Wilkes
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Al Thompson
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Francois Bertrand
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