Current Developers

Now for your browsing pleasure (or lack thereof), here's more information than you ever wanted to know about Bugzilla's development team. If you feel that you should be on this list but aren't or have any additions/corrections, please file a request.

Dave Miller

IRC Nick: justdave
Location: Jamestown, MI, USA
Day Job: Webtools Developer / Systems Administrator for Mozilla Corporation
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Project Lead, Web Site
Component Responsibilities: bugzilla.org
Quote: "I haven't said anything witty enough to be worth quoting."
Blog: http://www.justdave.net/dave/

Dylan Hardison

IRC Nick: dylan
Location: St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Day Job: Bugzilla Developer for Mozilla Corporation
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Assistant Project Lead, Developer/Reviewer, Perl Community Liason
Quote: "make scalar grep a felony"
Blog: https://dylanwh.tumblr.com

Gervase Markham

IRC Nick: Gerv
Location: Loughborough, UK
Day Job: Policy Engineer at Mozilla
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Assistant Project Lead, Developer/Reviewer, Standards Advocacy

Dave Lawrence

IRC Nick: dkl
Location: Raleigh, NC, USA
Day Job: Bugzilla Developer for Mozilla
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Release Manager, Developer/Reviewer, PostgreSQL port

Guy Pyrzak

IRC Nick: pyrzak
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Day Job: User Experience Researcher and Interaction Designer for NASA Ames HCI Group
Bugzilla Responsibilities: User Experience Lead
Quote: The knob is dead!!!!
Blog: http://guy-pyrzak.blogspot.com

Vitaly Fedrushkov

IRC Nick: SnowyOwl
Location: Chelyabinsk, Russia
Day Job: Infosec and ITSM specialist, LUKOIL oil company
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Localization (L10n) Lead, Russian Localizer

Tiago Mello

IRC Nick: timello
Location: São Carlos, SP, Brazil
Day Job: Software Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer
Quote: “Is there a hook for this already?”

Marc Schumann

IRC Nick: Wurblzap
Location: Erkelenz, Germany, EU
Day Job: Project lead for inconso
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, L10n Team, German Localizer
Quote: “A solid plan is a rather unsatisfying substitute for some cultivated muddling-through.”

Emmanuel Seyman

IRC Nick: manu
Location: Paris, France
Day Job: Software Engineer
Bugzilla Responsibilities: QA Team

Cédric Corazza

IRC Nick: Cedric
Location: Nice, France
Day Job: System engineer
Bugzilla Responsibilities: L10n Team, French Localizer
URL: http://www.frenchmozilla.fr

Reed Loden

IRC Nick: reed
Day Job: Systems Engineer for Silicon Valley Startup
Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer-in-Training, bugzilla.mozilla.org branch maintenance
Quote: "I hate perl. I hate perl."

Former Developers

Terry Weissman

IRC Nick: terry
Location: Palo Alto, CA, USA
Day Job: Software Engineer for LiveOps, Inc.
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Project Founder/Project Leader, IRC Heckler, Scapegoat
Quote: "What have they done to my baby!"

Tara Hernandez

IRC Nick: baloo
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Day Job: Infrastructure Engineer at Pixar
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Project Leader
Quote: "My head feels so much lighter after the lobotomy."

Christopher Yeh

IRC Nick: cyeh
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Day Job: Release Engineer
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer
Blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/cyeh/

Dawn Endico

IRC Nick: dawn or endico
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer

David Kilzer

IRC Nick: ddk
Location: Des Moines, IA, USA
Day Job: Senior Systems & Software Engineer
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer

Ian Hickson

IRC Nick: Hixie
Location: Oslo, Norway
Day Job: Opera Software
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Bugzilla Version 3, Attempting To Sabotage Bugzilla Version 2 Development
Blog: http://ln.hixie.ch/

J. Paul Reed

IRC Nick: JayPee
Day Job: Build Engineer for Songbird
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer

Matthew Tuck

IRC Nick: CodeMachine
Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia
Day Job: Freelance Tutor/Contract Programmer
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, Bug Triager, Release Notes, QA (supposedly), Developers'/Reviewers' Guide, Sanity Check, Everything No One Else Wants To Do
Quotes: "It's all Terry's fault." - "Targets are things that get missed (unless you're Robin Hood)."

Bradley Baetz

IRC Nick: bbaetz
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Day Job: ISP Engineer
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, mod_perl attempts

Matthew Barnson

IRC Nick: Barnboy
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Documentation

Christopher A. Aillon

IRC Nick: caillon
Location: Boston, MA, USA
Day Job: Software Engineer for Red Hat
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, Standards Advocacy
Quote: "I'll have to come up with a quote :)"

Christian Reis

IRC Nick: kiko
Location: São Carlos, SP, Brazil
Day Job: Software Engineer for Async Open Source
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer
Quote:"Day jobs are what take the boredom out of waiting for reviews."
Blog: http://async.com.br/~kiko/

Zach Lipton

IRC Nick: zach
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Day Job: Student
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer
Previous Component Responsibilities: Installation & Upgrading, Testing Suite
Blog: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/zach/

Mike Morgan

IRC Nick: morgamic
Location: Corvallis, OR, USA
Day Job: Web Developer for Mozilla Corporation
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Web Design, Writing, Structure
Quote: "Yeah, but how does it smell?"
Blog: http://morgamic.com

Jacob Steenhagen

IRC Nick: Jake
Location: Fruitport, MI, USA
Day Job: U.S.Army Reserves (deployed)
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, Documentation, ssdbot Maintainer, word Maintainer
Quote: "I'd rather drive the .html file to your house on a floppy disk than run IIS."
Blog: http://www.steenhagen.us/~jake/blog

Joel Peshkin

IRC Nick: Joel
Location: San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA
Day Job: Director of Software QA for Impinj
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Group security, enhancements for enterprise use.
Quote: "Leave no dhrystone unturned."

Erik Stambaugh

IRC Nick: ____erik, squinky, not_erik
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Day job: Systems Engineer for Mindspeed
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer
Previous Component Responsibilities: Whining

Jouni Heikniemi

IRC Nick: jth
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Day Job: Software Architect at Blue Meteorite Ltd
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, Win32 testing
Blog: http://www.heikniemi.net/hc/

Myk Melez

IRC Nick: myk
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Day Job: Mozilla Labs Developer for Mozilla Corporation
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer/Approver
Previous Component Responsibilities: Attachments & Requests, Creating/Changing Bugs, User Accounts

Colin Ogilvie

IRC Nick: Colin
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Documentation Lead

Vlad Dascalu

IRC Nick: vladd
Location: Romania
Day Job: Founder, Goobix.com
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, Documentation, bug triage

Josh Soref

IRC Nick: timeless or timely
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Day Job: Software Engineer
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer, Grammar Cop, finding all the edge cases
Quote: "Keep your extremities within your car."

Max Kanat-Alexander

IRC Nick: mkanat
Location: Mountain View, CA, USA
Day Job: Software Engineer at Google
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Community Lead, Release Manager, Assistant Project Lead
Previous Component Responsibilities: Database, Installation & Upgrading, Authentication
Quote: "I think that should really be a separate bug."
Blog: http://www.codesimplicity.com

Gregary Hendricks

IRC Nick: ghendricks
Location: Provo, Utah USA
Day Job: Bugzilla Administrator for Novell and Testopia developer.
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: QA Team, Plug-in integration, Bug Importing
Quote:If we're going to talk about good software design, we have to talk about Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris, the basis of good software design. --Larry Wall--
Blog: http://testopia.blogspot.com/

Xiaoou Wu

IRC Nick: xiaoou
Day Job: Web Application Developer for Oracle
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Oracle port

Sam Folk-Williams

IRC Nick: samfw
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Documentation Team

Frédéric Buclin

IRC Nick: LpSolit
Location: Switzerland
Day Job: Physicist, now teaching maths and physics
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Assistant Project Lead, QA Lead, Reviewer
Previous Component Responsibilities: Attachments & Requests (Flags)
Quote: Please test your patch before requesting review!!
Blog: http://lpsolit.wordpress.com

Shane Travis

Location: Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Day Job: Process analyst, developer, technical writer, deployment specialist
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Developer/Reviewer, Documentation Lead
Previous Component Responsibilities: User Preferences
Quote: If someone requests a sandwich, the right answer is not always to design and create the ultimate sandwich-making machine. Sometimes, the right answer is just to make them a sandwich.

Byron Jones

IRC Nick: glob
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Day Job: Bugzilla Developer for Mozilla
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Assistant Project Lead, Developer/Reviewer

Mark Côté

IRC Nick: mcote
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
Day Job: Automation & Tools Manager for Mozilla
Previous Bugzilla Responsibilities: Assistant Project Lead, Source Repository Guru, Community coordinator
Blog: http://mrcote.info/

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