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Our Team

Our Team

Hello, we are the Vox Media product team. We are designers, developers, operations engineers, and product and community managers, based in Washington, DC, New York, and Austin, and distributed remotely in cities from Santa Barbara, California to Springfield, Missouri.

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  • Joe Alicata

    VP of Revenue Product and Operations
    Nerd, gadget geek, runner, and collector of plaid.
    wirelessjoe

  • Ben Alt

    Senior Front-End Engineer
    Ben lives in Austin, has been doing front-end development for about 10 years, and dislikes writing about himself in the third person.
    alt_ben

  • Kainaz Amaria

    Design Director, Storytelling
    Prefers face to face. LEMONADE. IS. EVERYTHING.
    kainazamaria

  • Drew Amato

    Full-Stack Engineer
    I like my engineering like I like my pancakes: full-stack!
    andrew_a_dev

  • Brian Anderson

    Revenue Products Engineering Director
    Ad Farmer, living in Iowa. I write code, I like coffee and my family.
    banderson623

  • Pamela Assogba

    Full-Stack Engineer
    West African transplant. I <3 code, and crunchy foods.
    pam_yam

  • Skip Baney

    Systems Engineering Director
    lol/sob
    twelvelabs

  • Melissa Bell

    VP of Growth and Analytics / Executive Editor, Vox.com
    As a child, Melissa thought she loved the kumquat. In fact, she loved the loquat. She believes people have the right to good information.
    MelissaBell

  • Frank Bi

    Editorial Engineer, The Verge
    Aspiring Chipotle reporter. Minnesota native currently residing in Brooklyn.
    FrankieBi

  • Derek Bodner

    Senior Operations Engineer
    Linux enthusiast, Philly sports fanatic, animal lover, writer and photographer.

  • Mandy Brown

    Senior Product Manager
    Pushy.
    aworkinglibrary

  • Trei Brundrett

    Chief Product Officer
    clockwerks

  • Ian Carrico

    Performance Engineer
    Ian wants the web to be just a little bit faster. He also does corde lisse.
    iamcarrico

  • Dan Chilton

    Front-End Engineering Director
    UI note: is this the input field where we put our little bio thing?
    bjork24

  • Marie Connelly

    Community Manager
    Reads the comments. Loves handclaps. Let's talk.

  • Georgia Cowley

    Design Director
    Try the veal.
    hellogeorgia

  • Jon Douglas

    Senior QA Manager
    Background in quality assurance with a passion for video games. Crushes bugs on the daily.
    jhdouglas

  • Guillermo Esteves

    Senior Front-End Engineer
    Web design & stuff.
    gesteves

  • Jack Evans

    Front-End Designer
    Screen-addicted designer based in Silver Spring, MD.
    JCHeavens

  • John Fuller

    Senior Front-End Designer
    Some say that he knows two facts about ducks and both of them are wrong. All we know is that he’s called a web designer

  • Ryan Gantz

    Director of User Experience
    Welcome to my homepage!! It's under construction but click around. Want to see more Cure or REM lyrics? Sign my guestbook with suggestions!!
    sixfoot6

  • Justin Glow

    Senior Director of Product
    Wearing the same belt since 1994
    justinglow

  • Chris Haines

    Senior Product Manager, SB Nation
    Philadelphia, Georgetown, and #USA sports addled. Underpant Headline Specialist. Team Pie 'til I die.
    chrismchaines

  • Tessa Harmon

    Full-Stack Engineer
    Garlic and sapphires in the mud
    TessaHarmon

  • Winston Hearn

    Front-End Engineer
    A person trying to make better websites. There is so much to learn.
    suchwinston

  • Ngan Hoang

    Front-End Designer
    Fun-sized designer obsessed with giraffes and miniature things.
    ngansenseee

  • Brittany Holloway-Brown

    Designer
    Pretty-girl picture-maker and french fry advocate.
    brtttny

  • Ted Irvine

    Senior Design Director
    Is silently judging your design work right now.
    ted_irvine

  • Jose Junior

    Operations Engineering Director
    A GNU/Linux sysadmin in a quest for perfect uptime. Gamer, as time permits.
    coredump

  • Kyle Keller

    Director of Analytics
    Delicately bridging the spectrum of jock to nerd.
    kylekeller

  • Scott Kellum

    Senior Front-End Designer
    A designer of many trades, but mostly web design these days as it is far too interesting to stop thinking about.
    scottkellum

  • JuKrisha Kingwood

    Support Manager
    When I need a break from adulting, I usually go to IKEA

  • Casey Kolderup

    Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    Midsummer bitcrusher / midwinter bitshifter
    ckolderup

  • Jeff Kramer

    Full-Stack Engineer
    Dad and narrative technologist. Helping computers tell stories since 1994.
    jeffk

  • Josh Laincz

    Senior Front-End Designer
    Turns whiskey into websites. Probably eating tacos.
    zohf

  • Jake Lear

    Sr. Front-End Engineer
    Make code, get treat.
    jakelear

  • Ben Lee

    Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    Rubyist, rationalist, strategist; dancer, dreamer, burner. Fan of em dashes and semicolons.
    ParadoxMartini

  • Courtney Leonard

    Designer
    Relax and take notes.
    courteroy

  • Michael Lovitt

    VP of Engineering
    I am Lovitt's lack of a one-sentence bio.
    lovitt

  • Huge Ma

    Full-Stack Engineer
    Enjoys food and FIFA.
    Huge_Ma

  • Graham MacAree

    Editorial Engineer, SB Nation
    A sports blogger who got lost.
    MacAree

  • Greg MacWilliam

    Senior Front-End Engineer
    Teacher, game designer. Juggles fire and wrestles sharks.
    gmacwilliam

  • Ramla Mahmood

    Designer
    Canadian who hates the cold.
    ramoved

  • Ryan Mark

    Editorial Engineering Director
    Trying to be less serious.
    ryanmark

  • Jamie McCarthy

    Full-Stack Engineer
    Jamie's a Michigan native who's loving his new life in the People's Republic of Takoma Park, Maryland. He claims to be a fan of science fiction, databases, nature hikes, and the Oxford comma.
    jamiemccarthy

  • Allison McHenry

    Engineering Organization Director
    Something worked the way I intended it to in 1996, and I’ve been addicted to code ever since
    violaleeblue

  • Shaun McIlroy

    Support Manager
    England-based Support Manager who was told there would be bacon. Well? Where's my bacon, Cory?
    shaunmcilroy

  • Steve McKinney

    Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    Hacker and family man with a passion for cycling.
    stevechiagozie

  • Pablo Mercado

    CTO
    odacrem

  • Casey Miller

    Editorial Tools Full-Stack Engineer
    Likes crossword puzzles, wearing bow ties, and will argue that Rumours is, hands down, the best album ever. #56A0D3 born, bred, and dead.
    caseymmiller

  • Katharine Molloy

    Designer
    klmolloy

  • Miriam Nadler

    Front-End Engineer
    Coder. Gets lost on purpose in the drafting section of art supply stores.
    antimytheme

  • Harold Neal

    Full-Stack Engineer
    Camera Slayer. Cat Daddy. Coder.
    metacreek

  • Jason Ormand

    Performance Engineer
    Obsessed with speed both on the web and IRL. :heart: open source.
    okor

  • Ally Palanzi

    Senior Front-End Engineer
    design, code, cats, sass
    mylifeasalllly

  • Yesenia Perez-Cruz

    Design Director
    Boricua. Lipstick connoisseur.
    yeseniaa

  • Lauren Rabaino

    Product Director, Editorial
    Good at writing emails.
    LaurenRabaino

  • Alisha Ramos

    Design Director, Revenue Platforms
    Selfie enabler.
    alishalisha

  • Carrie Ruby

    Design Director, Vox Creative
    New Yorker by trade; Texan at heart.
    carrieruby

  • Nozlee Samadzadeh

    Full-Stack Engineer
    Developer, writer, editor, seamstress, cook. Among other things.
    nzle

  • Carmen Sarlo

    Senior Operations Engineer
    I listen to music better than I can play it.

  • Kelsey Scherer

    Senior Designer
    Design school taught me to be sarcastic.
    kelsa_

  • Curtis Schiewek

    Security Engineer
    Coder, (mostly retired) musician and delinquent cinephile. Je suis le papillon qui danse dans le forest de ton coeur.
    cschiewek

  • Warren Schultheis

    Principal Designer
    art, anthropology, books, camping, dadjokes
    sleeptest

  • Nancy Seay

    QA Manager
    Food bully with an affinity for reality tv.

  • Blaine Sheldon

    Senior Product Manager
    Grand purveyor of modern web curiosities.
    OjoGringo

  • Matt Singerman

    Network Engineer
    Packet wrangler.

  • Corri Skinner

    Sr. Product Manager, Revenue Products
    When in doubt, OG wire frame it! Battling shortness daily with high shoes.

  • Matt Sullivan

    Front-End Designer
    Thing maker, making it work... hopefully easier.
    mjsxi

  • Kevin Sung

    Technical Project Manager, Revenue Products
    Trivia host. Failed voice over artist. Improv and a cappella type. Yes, I love karaoke.
    kevsung

  • Blake Thomson

    Principal Platform Engineer
    Obsessed with code, disc golf, Seattle sports, and beer hikes.
    thomsbg

  • Tate Tozer

    Design Director, Revenue Executions
    Quite often in the middle of a taco.
    particlefield

  • Elite Truong

    Product Manager, Partner Platforms
    Snack maker, food writer, ace troubleshooter.
    elitetruong

  • Ashley Twaddell

    Product Team Coordinator
    Chocolate, cherry-cola ribs, and sugar in my coffee.
    ash_indc

  • Hart Van Santvoord

    Associate Director of Growth
    SEO is your friend.
    hartvs

  • Yuri Victor

    Senior UX Designer
    Just trying to build things that make the world laugh
    yurivictor

  • Constance Watkins

    Senior Designer
    Designs things. Can reach the top shelf in most kitchens.
    iheartconstance

  • Matt Watson

    Deputy Director of Growth
    Those who stay will be champions. Also, tired in the morning.
    mattwatson

  • Tyson Whiting

    Senior Designer
    Hockey, comic books, skateboarding, zombies, designy things. Blam! Pow! Biff!
    komickiller

  • Cory Williams

    Senior Support Manager
    Sometimes I'll start a sentence, and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way.
    cwilliams2k4

  • David Yee

    Platform Engineering Director
    Classical-musician-turned-engineer. Cheeseburger fanatic. Not sure about the answers; trying to get the questions right.
    tangentialism

  • Jesse Young

    Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    Likes brevity, Tater Tots.

  • David Zhou

    Principal Full-Stack Engineer
    Tea drinking, photography loving, video gaming, 6 Pool Pro.
    dz

  • Jody Zhou

    Designer
    Likes cute things and desserts.

  • Dani Balenson

    Designer
    Making, eating, staring

  • Gregg Bernstein

    Sr. User Researcher
    Running interviews. Running tests. Running trails. Running.
    greggcorp

  • Michele Cynowicz

    Front-end Engineer
    Code-obsessed coffee addict

  • Jessica Paoli

    Designer
    Mahou shoujo with a cat familiar. Ohio. Will never be five feet tall.
    skullface

  • Josh Larson

    Front-end Engineer
    Enjoys comedy and creating things on the web. Sometimes hosts a podcast about those two things.
    jplhomer

  • Aidan Feay
    Front-End Engineer
    Museum dweller, data geek, and cat fanatic. Building websites with Lego bricks
    aidanfeay

  • Billy Ceskavich

    Full-Stack Engineer
    As a kid I wanted to become a tornado chaser. Now I chase bugs for a living.
    ceskavich

  • Eric Binmore

    Full-Stack Engineer
    Generally unshaven, is the father of two, walks, and is a fan of the order of operations - BEDMAS. Lost in code if not lost in thought.

  • Andrew Johnson

    Front-End Designer
    Makes things.
    Aetherpoint

  • Emma Merlis

    Newsroom Analyst
    Loves dance, yoga, live music, ampersands & her dog, Maeby. Anti-Oxford comma.
    emmajoan

  • Katie O'Dowd

    Product Manager, Storytelling Tools
    I love checking things off a list.

  • Alesha Randolph

    Sr Designer
    DC Native. Conjurer of the beautiful and functional. Came to slay.
    aleshacreates

  • Sanette Takana

    Front-End Designer
    Reporter turned designer. I always read the comments.
    ssktanaka

  • Yian Shang

    Data Infastructure Engineer
    Fueled by good chocolate

  • Grisha Trubetskoy

    Data Infastructure Engineer
    Data Hacker

  • Victor Ware

    Senior Designer
    DC born and raised graphic designer. Failed graffiti artist. Mumbo Sauce on my wings.
    nvrslps

  • Luigi Ray-Montanez

    Full-Stack Engineer
    Doesn't know where Mario is.
    1uigi

  • Jeremy McAnally
    Security Engineer
    Cold-brew coffee snob. The human form of the upside-down face emoji. Has better uptime numbers than google.com
    jm

  • Marvin Cespedes

    Front-end Designer
    Web Designer and Front-end Developer teaching people how to be respectful of one another against their will. Currently residing in Chicago, IL. Chris Plante is my spirit animal
    mcespo

  • Ed Clinton

    Product Manager, Video
    Husband and dad. Sports, media, and tech obsessed. Trying to avoid 40 degree days

  • Nicole Zhu
    Full-Stack Engineer
    Always turns on subtitles, never without a book, occasionally makes puns. Nice meating you, ketchup later.
    nicolelzhu