In case you were all dying to know who we all were, we're
sharing with you a little Kodak moment we had last Friday.
David, our developer from France with us for 2 weeks, so we
all went out for lunch on Friday.
This was
the occasion for the Kodak moment and we thought that it would also not be a bad
time to introduce the team developing dimsu.
So without
further due, here we are, starting from far right:
At the far right is Wencheng, our lead developer for dimsu.
He has been working on it from its inception end 2005 and is right now
overviewing the whole technical development as well as actively developing the
platform's side.
Next is Tom, Tom joined us in
February 07, so a pretty new member, he's been working on the front-end side
and is also behind a lot of the performance's improvements you can hopefully
feel by now. Tom has also been the first true native English speaker in our team, so he also has been giving us some much needed English lesson.
At his
side, is Ben Metcalfe who joined us
end of March 07. Ben is British brings us his past experience in opening up BBC to the developers. He is also a blogger and a passionate supporter of open-source, APIs and user-centric applications. He is helping us in developing the right platform for our
developers, and will be our community evangelist, bringing us the developer's
perspective and making sure we have this developer's best interest at the core
of what we are building. Incidentally, Ben has alos been the second native English speaker to join our team (although Ben and Tom speaks nothing like each other). Side's activities of Ben include: insights into British humor, introduction to East England slang and daily rants on various topics. Sometimes we have absolutely no clue of what he is saying, but still pretty fun.
Next on the front right we have Sundar.
Sundar is working on the back-end side both on the feed aggregation as well as
in developing all kind of cool APIs. He has been the third person to join our
team in August 06.
Continuing on the left side, on the front left is Venkat.
Venkat joined in January 07 and is working on the back-end side together with
Sundar, he is also responsible for the Firefox extension that allows you to
easily import new content into dimsu painlessly without the copy/paste of the
feed url.
Next is Kavitha. Kavitha joined in
March 07 and is providing much needed support in terms of testing the service
and discovering the big bugs before you may notice them. We still let some slip
through but trust us much less than if she weren't there.
Then, next is Virginie. Virginie has been working on dimsu since beginning 06. She is running
the dimsu project, also trying to bring the user's perspective in our sometime heated debates about what's best for dimsu. Incidentally, Virginie is also becoming an expert in delivery and take-out for the 94080 zip code (where our offices are). Any questions on the best Tai or the worst chinese for late deliveries in South San Francisco, she can answer.
Finally, last
one but not the least, on the far left side is David. David works on the front-end side and for instance you can
thank him for the brand new look. He normally sits in Paris but it was not too
hard to convince him to spend 2 weeks with us in beautiful San Francisco (okay
our offices are in South San Francisco, so technically speaking, next to
beautiful San Francisco, but still we are very close to beautiful San
Francisco, so enough of a draw to get him here).
There, here
we are. So the next time you sent us some feedback, you can picture us better.
It has been quite a journey from being a team of 2 pitching our ideas back in
July 06 to NExT.com, our Orange's
marketing sponsors, to now all actively working on our public release.
Your
feedback and goodwill for our service all along the way has been great and we hope you continue
to support us in this next phase.
Thanks!
The dimsu
team
