jQuery UI Team Members

• Paul Bakaus

  Paul is a UI architect living near Mainz, Germany. He's the initial creator and project lead of jQuery UI and works for the open source company Liferay in a full-time sponsored position to jQuery UI. He's responsible for the overall direction and project management of jQuery UI and he's also leading the jQuery UI development team. In the past, he was largely responsible for creating the dimensions plugin and worked together with Stefan Petre on the rich effects and components library Interface.

• David Bolter

  David works for the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre and helps jQuery UI to become ARIA compatible as part of a Mozilla funding. He's also part of the jQuery UI accessibility team and works out solutions to make the markup of jQuery UI more accessible and unobstrusive.

• Rich Caloggero

  Rich is an adaptive tech. consultant working for the MIT adaptive tech. Information Center and the WGBH National Center for Accessible Media. A long-time screen reader user, he appreciates the beauty of well written software and feels that jQuery and jQuery UI should be usable by everyone. He will provide detailed feedback on the ARIA implementation and suggestions from the perspective of a screen reader user.

• Chi Cheng

  Chi is a web developer and student living in China. He has been investing a lot of time and efforts into the jQuery UI documentation and widget specification process, and helps out whenever something needs to be described.

• Colin Clark

  Colin is the technical lead for the Fluid Project at the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre. He contributes to the jQuery UI accessibility effort, helping make jQuery UI more usable for everyone.

• Michelle D'Souza

  Michelle is a software developer working on the Fluid Project at the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre. She works on the jQuery UI accessibility effort, and has contributed ARIA support and improved keyboard navigation for the dialog plugin so far.

• Alexander Farkas

  Alexander Farkas works as a webdeveloper in Berlin, Germany. He is focused on making jQuery UI more accessible for everyone. He recently contributed some improvements to the animateClass-plugin.

• Scott González

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

• Klaus Hartl

  Klaus is a senior web developer specialized in front-end development at Nokia in Berlin, Germany. Being part of the jQuery UI development team he has contributed a great deal to the Tabs plugin, as its initial creator.

• Scott Jehl

  Scott is a web designer/developer at Filament Group Inc, and also leads the design team at jQuery.com. He is a member of the jQuery UI design team and is actively involved with the design of the jQuery widgets, the jQuery UI CSS framework, and ThemeRoller.

• Cody Lindley

  Cody is a client-side engineer working remotly from Boise, Idaho for SitePen. He is a member of the jQuery & jQuery UI evangelism team.

• Todd Parker

  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.

• Patty Toland

  Patty is a principal at Filament Group Inc. and contributes to the UI design and documention and ThemeRoller design.

• Ca-Phun Ung

  Ca-Phun is a web developer and contractor living in Hong Kong. He's part of the jQuery UI development team and contributed large parts of the upcoming spinner component and its automated tests to jQuery UI.

• Maggie Costello Wachs

  Maggie, production manager and front-end developer at Filament Group Inc., is a member of the jQuery UI design team and collaborates on widget design and documentation, accessible markup structure, and the jQuery UI CSS framework.  She contributed working design prototypes for the menu and position widgets.

• Keith Wood

  Keith is the initial co-creator of the datepicker widget and continued to work on it after being included to jQuery UI. He's now part of the jQuery UI development team, and you can also find some plugins about time control on his personal website.

• Richard D. Worth

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

• Jörn Zaefferer

  Jörn is a Java engineer living in Cologne, Germany. He's part of the jQuery UI development team and contributed his accordion and autocomplete plugins to jQuery UI. He has also been a driving force of the jQuery core development process, pushing out many of the 1.0.x releases. He's also responsible for completely re-building the jQuery test suite, now known as QUnit, and writing a large number of the test cases.

Past Contributors

• Aaron Eisenberger

  Aaron is a senior webmaster and design guru with experience in all realms of traditional design, web design, web application development, user interface design, project management, client interaction, software maintenance and troubleshooting. He contributed the first jQuery UI Effects.

• Marc Grabanski

  Marc is the creator of the popular datepicker plugin. After a huge success, he ported it to jQuery UI for everyone to enjoy bundled in a full featured library.

• Thomas Klose

  Tom is a creative director living in germany, focussing on interaction and interfaces. He was responsible for the first theming guidelines for jQuery UI and created the polarizing Flora theme that gained much attention. He's also the creator of the original jQuery UI Logo, the merge of U and I.

• Eduardo Lundgren

  Eduardo Lundgren is an engineer living in Recife, Brasil. He contributed a lot to the resizables, progressbar and sortables plugins. He also co-authored the Simulate plugin that helps automate many jQuery UI tests.

• Gavin Mulligan

  Gavin Mulligan is a programmer who currently lives in the suburbs of Washington DC and works as a project lead for a defense contractor. His main contribution was an overhaul of the jQuery UI download builder.