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React development is led by a dedicated team working full time at Meta. It also receives contributions from people all over the world.

React Core Link for React Core

The React Core team members work full time on the core component APIs, the engine that powers React DOM and React Native, React DevTools, and the React documentation website.

Current members of the React team are listed in alphabetical order below.

Andrew Clark Link for Andrew Clark

Engineer at Vercel

Andrew got started with web development by making sites with WordPress, and eventually tricked himself into doing JavaScript. His favorite pastime is karaoke. Andrew is either a Disney villain or a Disney princess, depending on the day.

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Dan Abramov Link for Dan Abramov

Independent Engineer

Dan got into programming after he accidentally discovered Visual Basic inside Microsoft PowerPoint. He has found his true calling in turning Sebastian’s tweets into long-form blog posts. Dan occasionally wins at Fortnite by hiding in a bush until the game ends.

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Eli White Link for Eli White

Engineering Manager at Meta

Eli got into programming after he got suspended from middle school for hacking. He has been working on React and React Native since 2017. He enjoys eating treats, especially ice cream and apple pie. You can find Eli trying quirky activities like parkour, indoor skydiving, and aerial silks.

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Jack Pope Link for Jack Pope

Engineer at Meta

Shortly after being introduced to AutoHotkey, Jack had written scripts to automate everything he could think of. When reaching limitations there, he dove headfirst into web app development and hasn’t looked back. Most recently, Jack worked on the web platform at Instagram before moving to React. His favorite programming language is JSX.

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Jason Bonta Link for Jason Bonta

Engineering Manager at Meta

Jason abandoned embedded C for a career in front-end engineering and never looked back. Armed with esoteric CSS knowledge and a passion for beautiful UI, Jason joined Facebook in 2010, where he now feels privileged to have seen JavaScript development come of age. Though he may not understand how for...of loops work, he loves getting to work with brilliant people on projects that enable amazing UX.

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Joe Savona Link for Joe Savona

Engineer at Meta

Joe was planning to major in math and philosophy but got into computer science after writing physics simulations in Matlab. Prior to React, he worked on Relay, RSocket.js, and the Skip programming language. While he’s not building some sort of reactive system he enjoys running, studying Japanese, and spending time with his family.

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Josh Story Link for Josh Story

Engineer at Vercel

Josh majored in Mathematics and discovered programming while in college. His first professional developer job was to program insurance rate calculations in Microsoft Excel, the paragon of Reactive Programming which must be why he now works on React. In between that time Josh has been an IC, Manager, and Executive at a few startups. outside of work he likes to push his limits with cooking.

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Lauren Tan Link for Lauren Tan

Engineer at Meta

Lauren’s programming career peaked when she first discovered the <marquee> tag. She’s been chasing that high ever since. She studied Finance instead of CS in college, so she learned to code using Excel. Lauren enjoys dropping cheeky memes in chat, playing video games with her partner, learning Korean, and petting her dog Zelda.

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Luna Wei Link for Luna Wei

Engineer at Meta

Luna first learnt the fundamentals of python at the age of 6 from her father. Since then, she has been unstoppable. Luna aspires to be a gen z, and the road to success is paved with environmental advocacy, urban gardening and lots of quality time with her Voo-Doo’d (as pictured).

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Matt Carroll Link for Matt Carroll

Developer Advocate at Meta

Matt stumbled into coding, and since then, has become enamored with creating things in communities that can’t be created alone. Prior to React, he worked on YouTube, the Google Assistant, Fuchsia, and Google Cloud AI and Evernote. When he’s not trying to make better developer tools he enjoys the mountains, jazz, and spending time with his family.

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Mofei Zhang Link for Mofei Zhang

Engineer at Meta

Mofei started programming when she realized it can help her cheat in video games. She focused on operating systems in undergrad / grad school, but now finds herself happily tinkering on React. Outside of work, she enjoys debugging bouldering problems and planning her next backpacking trip(s).

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Noah Lemen Link for Noah Lemen

Engineer at Meta

Noah’s interest in UI programming sparked during his education in music technology at NYU. At Meta, he’s worked on internal tools, browsers, web performance, and is currently focused on React. Outside of work, Noah can be found tinkering with synthesizers or spending time with his cat.

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Rick Hanlon Link for Rick Hanlon

Engineer at Meta

Ricky majored in theoretical math and somehow found himself on the React Native team for a couple years before joining the React team. When he’s not programming you can find him snowboarding, biking, climbing, golfing, or closing GitHub issues that do not match the issue template.

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Ruslan Lesiutin Link for Ruslan Lesiutin

Engineer at Meta

Ruslan’s introduction to UI programming started when he was a kid by manually editing HTML templates for his custom gaming forums. Somehow, he ended up majoring in Computer Science. He enjoys music, games, and memes. Mostly memes.

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Sathya Gunasekaran Link for Sathya Gunasekaran

Engineer at Meta

Sathya hated the Dragon Book in school but somehow ended up working on compilers all his career. When he’s not compiling React components, he’s either drinking coffee or eating yet another Dosa.

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Sebastian Markbåge Link for Sebastian Markbåge

Engineer at Vercel

Sebastian majored in psychology. He’s usually quiet. Even when he says something, it often doesn’t make sense to the rest of us until a few months later. The correct way to pronounce his surname is “mark-boa-geh” but he settled for “mark-beige” out of pragmatism — and that’s how he approaches React.

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Sebastian Silbermann Link for Sebastian Silbermann

Engineer at Vercel

Sebastian learned programming to make the browser games he played during class more enjoyable. Eventually this lead to contributing to as much open source code as possible. Outside of coding he’s busy making sure people don’t confuse him with the other Sebastians and Zilberman of the React community.

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Seth Webster Link for Seth Webster

Engineering Manager at Meta

Seth started programming as a kid growing up in Tucson, AZ. After school, he was bitten by the music bug and was a touring musician for about 10 years before returning to work, starting with Intuit. In his spare time, he loves taking pictures and flying for animal rescues in the northeastern United States.

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Sophie Alpert Link for Sophie Alpert

Independent Engineer

Four days after React was released, Sophie rewrote the entirety of her then-current project to use it, which she now realizes was perhaps a bit reckless. After she became the project’s #1 committer, she wondered why she wasn’t getting paid by Facebook like everyone else was and joined the team officially to lead React through its adolescent years. Though she quit that job years ago, somehow she’s still in the team’s group chats and “providing value”.

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Tianyu Yao Link for Tianyu Yao

Engineer at Meta

Tianyu’s interest in computers started as a kid because he loves video games. So he majored in computer science and still plays childish games like League of Legends. When he is not in front of a computer, he enjoys playing with his two kittens, hiking and kayaking.

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Yuzhi Zheng Link for Yuzhi Zheng

Engineering Manager at Meta

Yuzhi studied Computer Science in school. She liked the instant gratification of seeing code come to life without having to physically be in a laboratory. Now she’s a manager in the React org. Before management, she used to work on the Relay data fetching framework. In her spare time, Yuzhi enjoys optimizing her life via gardening and home improvement projects.

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