Our mission is to make cloud computing accessible to everyone.

Guillermo Rauch

Before starting ▲ZEIT in November 2015, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He's the creator of several popular Node.js open source libraries like socket.io, mongoose and slackin. Prior to Node.js, he was a core developer of the MooTools frontend toolkit.

Naoyuki Kanezawa

A software engineer who has been working with JavaScript for many years. He loves writing software that focuses on the user experience. He's behind the Java / Android clients of engine.io and socket.io, of which he's a core committer. He loves OSS communities and collaborating with others online.

Olli Vanhoja

A system software enthusiast who has previously worked for various projects requiring high availability and reliability. He received his BSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki. In the open source world he is best known for his Unix-like operating system project Zeke running on Raspberry Pi.

Evil Rabbit

As ▲ZEIT's Head of Design, he's responsible for ensuring the maximum visual appeal of our brand and products. Previously, he worked for well known companies such as VIACOM (MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, VH1 and Paramount Pictures), Auth0 and Aerolab. In addition, he was involved in the design of Passport.js, Tipbox and JWT.

Leo Lamprecht

Before and after founding his first web hosting startup (named FrewHost) at the age of 13, he spent most of his youth carefully crafting front-, backend and UI design projects for various teams around the globe (+ more). Nowadays, he's leading the visible part of ▲ZEIT as the SVP, Product.

Igor Klopov

A software engineer who began creating CAD/PDM automation and CNC manufacturing software for a decade, then switched to Node.js and web technologies. Creator and maintainer of PKG.

Nathan Rajlich

A Node.js core committer for over four years and practitioner of JavaScript for over a decade. Creator of node-gyp for compiling Node.js native C++ addons among various other open source projects. In his free time, he likes to tinker with Raspberry Pis, drones, and beer (+ personal blog, running on `now` of course).

Arunoda Susiripala

A software engineer who has been creating libraries and devtools for JavaScript since 2007. He was a prominent community member of Meteor and founded the Kadira APM. He later created the React Storybook and a few React specific packages. He started contributing to Next.js and is now currently helping to maintain Next.js and related projects.

Matheus Fernandes

Before writing Kap with friends he met online while developing Hyper, he spent 3 and a half years in college planning how he would leave to follow his dream of living and working in San Francisco. Now, he's SVP Engineering at ▲ZEIT, leading their fast-growing team and global infrastructure at scale.

Javi Velasco

A passionate software engineer who loves to make code look like poetry. He is the author of React Toolbox, one of the most popular React UI Kits that is used by companies such as Netflix, and other React OSS projects like React Tunnels or React CSS Themr. Last but not least, he is deeply devoted to his dog Kora.

Tim Neutkens

The lead maintainer of Next.js. Has a passion for creating scalable applications and improving developer experience. Previously, a familiar face on zeit.chat even before joining ▲ZEIT, co-authoring and maintaining Next.js, Micro, and MDX. He has a background in e-commerce and CMS solutions using PHP.

Timothy Lorimer

Developing and designing from childhood, Timothy started trying to create fan sites for video games he liked. Quickly evolving to creating a hosting company with friends. With front-end jobs in-between, his breakout into open source came by cocreating Kap which led him towards helping maintain Hyper and now works on content for ▲ZEIT.

Shu Ding

Started programming in high school and has since spent 4 years on algorithm competitions. He worked as a graphic designer and web developer in Shanghai and got his BSc degree in C.S. from Fudan University. He created inns.studio and many other projects. Now at ▲ZEIT, he helps design products that are loved by people all around the world.

Max Rovensky

Coming from a visual effecs background, he was always excited about creating new things. Passionate about simplifying workflows and improving user experiences across the board. React user since the early days. He also has expertise with "using the platform" after spending some time with Web Components. Creator and maintainer of Now Mobile.

Harrison Harnisch

A generalist engineer who has worked on everything from black hole imaging satellites to distributed systems running on Kubernetes. Before ▲ZEIT he worked full stack at Buffer and built developer tooling and infrastructure at Apple. In a past life he was a touring drummer in a band called “The Sweetheart of the Rodeo” (not the famous one).

Connor Davis

He has come a long way from his childhood computer that had a massive beige display and no internet connection. Until joining the ▲ZEIT team, he worked as a contractor on projects like an immutable, chained database for authentic asset tracking or a tailored forum software for a popular stock website. He also co-founded a bootstraped hosting startup. Connor wrote the software that controlled a 360 core bare-metal Kubernetes cluster.

Ana Trajkovska

She started her professional journey in sales management, but moved into software engineering since it's more exciting and challenging. Before joining ▲ZEIT she had been collaborating on a microservice framework called Microkubes and various open-source tools for open data. She's excited about microservice architecture and enjoys working with Node.js and TypeScript.

Joe Cohen

A serial entrepreneur with a background in full-stack development and design. Joe has co-founded companies ranging from a digital agency called dinkbit to a developer academy, and even some offline businesses. Once he had contributed to Open Source, his perception of the future changed.

Shuying Lin

As a multidisciplinary software engineer, Shuying enjoys crafting user-centered digital products and contributing OSS projects. She co-founded a UX consulting company called Wand Assembly, where she brought products to life for Australian startups. At ▲ZEIT, she helps create meaningful experiences for people.

Allen Hai

For as long as he can remember, Allen has been fascinated with the entire software stack, from pixel perfect UIs to logic gates. He believes that good software can serve as a force multiplier for individuals and communities. At ▲ZEIT, he is working on ways to make it easier for people to launch world-class products and services.

Steven

A self-proclaimed Software Shepherd, Steven has worked on the full software stack. While working at Western Digital he open sourced DirectoryLib, a first for the company. He has a passion for TypeScript and building great developer tools including Package Phobia, OG Image, and Marked.js. He enjoys sunshine and skateboards.

Amio Jin

In love with the web since 2002, Amio Jin has a strong belief in the web platform and open source. He's obsessed with performance and beauty in both code and life. He created Badgen and co-founded a consulting company helping startups. At ▲ZEIT, he helps build a great developer experience.

Sophearak Tha

An internetrovert in love with computers. Sophearak is a huge fan of minimalism and simplicity. He enjoys solitude at max every day. His current favorite programming language is Golang. He created moul • - the minimalist photo collection generator. At ▲ZEIT, he helps push the simplicity of cloud computing forward.