The Apache Flex® Team

The Apache Flex® Team

Apache Flex is updated and maintained by a large group of individuals. Find them on the mailing lists and elsewhere talking about Flex. If you are looking for support, please contact us on the mailing lists or open a ticket in our bug tracking system (JIRA).

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Our Mentors

Alex Harui
PMC Chair of Apache Flex aharui
Bertrand Delacretaz
Project Mentor bdelacretaz

I'm happy to have been able to help Flex incubate at Apache, the team did a great job in creating a successful Apache project. I left the PMC on graduation to free some time for other podlings, wishing Flex a bright future!

Dave Fisher
Project Mentor wave

I'm fascinated by the communities that develop around projects at Apache I really enjoy the spirit here in the Apache Flex project. I am particularly interested in documents and am on the Apache POI and OpenOffice PMCs. Apache Flex for office documents anyone?

I live in San Francisco where the weather is mild.

Greg Reddin
Project Mentor greddin

Apache Flex Committers

Carlos Rovira
carlosrovira

Carlos Rovira is a technologist, entrepreneur and businessman. He is passionate about advanced web interfaces and rich multi-device business applications. He is extremely happy when their applications are useful for people, combining functionality and usability. He's founder of various companies including carlosrovira.com in 2007 and Codeoscopic in 2009. He's the technical leader behind the Riality Flex/JEE Platform and other successful insurance software products like Direct Writer and Avant 2.

Carol Frampton
cframpton

Carol is a software engineer at Adobe, based outside of Boston. She worked on Adobe Flex for about five years - FTE and TLF text with Gordon, Spark DataGrid, mirroring and the top bug fixer for the last couple of years - then transitioned with Flex to Apache. Release manager for Apache Flex 4.8.0. Being a generalist, she's worked on a wide variety of software, including ColdFusion and JRun, kernel-level networking code and distributed networking software.

Chema Balsas
jbalsas

Web application developer. Focusing on JS right now and trying to help with Falcon and FalconJS as an Apache Flex Commiter.

Christofer Dutz
cdutz

Christofer is a software engineer secialized on Flex, Java, Spring and Maven. After helping support the Flexmojos project (Maven plugin for building Flex applications) for a long time he has taken over the development beginning 2012. His main areas of contribution to the Apache Flex project were creating a tool for creating Mavenized versions of Flex SDKs and he is currently working on creating a new Maven plugin to act as a replacement for Flexmojos.

Christophe Herreman
cherreman

Chuck Mastrandrea
cmastrandrea
Cyrill Zadra
czadra
Douglas Arthur
dougarthur

Douglas passed away in May, 2012. He is deeply missed within our community.

Erik de Bruin
erikdebruin

Erik is a software engineer (Flex/Flash, PHP, Delphi, Authorware, to name a few), e-learning consultant and occassional project manager. For the Apache Flex project he is a committer and part of the PMC. He has contributed the SDK Installer Badge, was contributor and co-release manager on the first release of the SDK Installer and is currently busy getting the FalconJx and FlexJS projects off the ground.

Espen Skogen
espenskogen

Espen is a Vice President at JP Morgan, where he is leading the development of client facing trading technology. Espen was one of the initial committers and PMC members of Apache Flex.

Frédéric Thomas
fthomas

Freelancer, software architect, Apache Flex PMC Member, trying to make the Flex world better.
(French)

Garth Braithwaite
garthdb

Gordon Smith
gordonsmith

Gordon is currently working on completing MXML support in the new Falcon compiler. He lives in San Francisco and works for Adobe.

Gordon was one of the original four engineers on a 2002 Macromedia project that became Flex, and worked on the Flex framework for eight years:

  • Developed components for Flex 1.0.
  • Built a customer application with Flex 1.5.
  • Led the port to AS3 for Flex 2.
  • Designed and implemented the ResourceManager for Flex 3.
  • Integrated the FTE and TLF text technologies into Flex 4.

Since 2010 he has been part of the compiler team at Adobe.

Greg Owen
gowen
Harbs
Harbs
harbs

Harbs comes from a print background and his primary interest is in publishing. He keeps himself busy with his multiple technology businesses: In-Tools, PrintUI and UnHurdle. All three businesses rely heavily on Flex as one of the active technologies, so Harbs has a strong interest in Flex.

Harbs also spends his time studying Talmud, and with his wife and kids. If there's any time left, he gets a bit of sleep.

Igor Costa
igorcosta

Iwo Banas
iwo

Jeff Boothe
jboothe
Jeff Tapper
jeff
Jeffry Houser
jhouser

Jeffry Houser is a technical entrepreneur that likes to share cool stuff with other people. Jeffry is the Brains behind Flextras, a library of Open Source Flex Components including a Calendar, AutoComplete, and a Mobile DropDownList.

Jeffry is one of the initial contributors to Apache Flex and his primary interest lies in expanding the component library, especially for use in mobile applications.

In his spare time, Jeffry runs DotComIt, a consulting firm developing Rich Internet Applications. He has spoken all over the US, is author of three books, over 30 articles, and hundreds of podcasts.

Jeremy Tellier
jtellier
Macromedia/Adobe Technology evangelist, architect, engineer, Jeremy has implemented a slew of Flash, Flex, & AIR based solutions for startups to fortune 100 companies over the past 15 years.

Jeremy works as a consultant at Actieve for Rich Mobile, Desktop & Web Based projects in which Flex is at the top of his preferred technology stack.

On a more personal note.... Jeremy feels awkward writing about himself in the third person.

Jonathon Campos
jonbcampos
Jon Rose
jrose
Jose Barragan
josebarragan

Jose Barragan is a Software Architect, with over 10 years experience in the enterprise sector. Has a big experience in design, development and implementation of high performance software in corporate environments. Has an extensive knowledge of Flex, Java, Spring, Hibernate, Maven, Git, being the technical co-leader behind the Riality Flex/JEE Platform and other successful insurance software products like Direct Writer and Avant 2. Restless mind and enthusiast of new technologies. Always learning from everything and everyone.

Jun Heider
Jun Heider
junheider

Helping Apache Flex grow through mentoring and community awareness. An officer of the Open Spoon Foundation. Cross-platform Flex mobile developer at RealEyes Media with a focus in video and multiuser applications. Adjunct Faculty at University of Denver, University College teaching students how to build native applications with Adobe AIR.

Justin Mclean
jmclean

Experienced web application developer, certified trainer, international conference speaker and Arduino tinkerer. Interesting in making Apache Flex more international and work on a wider range of platforms. Added international postcode support and locales to Apache Flex 4.9.0. Release manager for Apache Flex 4.9.0.

Kevin Korngut
kkorngut
Leif Wells
leifwells

Martin Heidegger
mheidegger

Michael Jordan
mijordan

Michael Labriola
labriola
Michael Schmalle
mschmalle

Past; ActionScript since 2001 and ui component developer. Created a read/write DOM for ActionScript in AS3 and Java, familiar with parsers and compilers.

Future; Working creating a framework to make synths and sequencers for techno music in Android and also Unity3D, WebAudio and JavaScript.

Leading the development of FalconJx to finally put the last nail in the Flash Player for myself. I don't claim to be anything I'm not, the thrid person scares me.

Michelle Yaiser
myaiser

Nicholas Kwiatkowski
quetwo

Working on components, website, marketing.

Omar Gonzalez
s9tpepper

Apache Flex committer and PMC member. Test driven development enthusiast. Wrestles code all day. Developing Flash since 2000, Flex since version 2 beta. Senior Architect for almer/blank developing front-ends and back-ends in HTML5, JavaScript, Flash, Flex, Node.js, PHP, MySQL and MongoDB, just to name a few. Interested in expanding Apache Flex beyond the Flash Player plugin as well as other random experiments.

OmPrakash Muppirala
bigosmallm

Om 'bigosmallm' Muppirala is a UI architect with years of experience building Flex and Flash based applications. He has been working on various tools and utilities aimed at making life easier for Apache Flex developers and users(SDK Installer, OneClick Mustella, etc.) Also interested in contributing more web and mobile Flex components.

Peter Elst
peterelst

Peter Ent
pent

Rui Silva
rduartes
Ryan Frishberg
frishy

Sebastian Mohr
masuland

Scott Delamater
sdelamater

Stephen Gilson
smgilson
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