node.js ko
We need judges
Judges are industry insiders: founders, CEOs, CTOs, VCs, journalists, open source hackers, etc. If you know a good judge candidate, please nominate her or him.
Judges (135)
Cory Virok
Co-Founder/CTO at Ratchet.io
Eric Schoffstall
I write open source at Fractal and have 80 npm packages.
Guillermo Rauch
—CTO and cofounder of SF-based education startup LearnBoost, author of socket.io, co-maintainer of mongoose, MooTools core developer, blogger and overall open source lover.
Michal Budzynski
Game developer with almost 11 years experience in JavaScript. Organizer of onGameStart, first & biggest HTML5 game conference. Working now on Us edition, currently employed in Mozilla as a FirefoxOS developer.
Matthew Deiters
Founder of Coderwall, YC Alumni
Irene Yang
Past: software engineer. Current: attorney. Specializes in intellectual property litigation and counseling. Aspires to be an athlete and indoor gardener.
Jared Hanson
I make things with computers.
Wyatt Preul
I look forward to reviewing all of the excellent entries.
Matthias Buehl
Hiring
Marco Rogers
Web developer, movie buff and pretty much the best guy you know.
Arnout Kazemier
HiringExtraordinary JavaScript Hybrid, founder of Observe.it and Lead Software Engineer at Nodejitsu. Loves real-time, Node.js, NoSQL & other bad-ass technologies.
- Second place solo NKO 2010
- First place solo, overall, utility NKO 2011
Jason Smith
Jason is the hosting leader at Iris Couch, which provides cloud CouchDB service. He spends all day, every day working on CouchDB with Node.
Isaac Schlueter
HiringIsaac has been a node regular since the 0.0.x days. He wrote npm, prefers coffee to tea, and lives in Oakland. He hopes to live long enough to live forever, or at least to see the total domination of Node.js as the universal high-level programming platform of Earth.
Laurel Reitman
HiringVP of Product at Joyent, Video Game Nerd, Web Tech Fan
Bashir Eghbali
Coderwall, CTO
Tim Caswell
Lover of all things good in life, including Family, Friends, Food, and Functional Programs. Nodejs hacker and teacher.
Danny Coates
HiringI like mashing old ideas into new and useful things. I started the node-inspector debugger project for Node.js. My favorite meal is breakfast, for dinner.
Josh Goodwin
HiringSenior engineering leadership for the industry's pioneering JavaScript deployment platform: Ensighten TMS. A JavaScript guru, cloud architecture expert, and Node.js enthusiast running THE high performance and high availability JS based stack.
Addy Osmani
Chrome DevRel @Google • @yeoman • Author • Creator of TodoMVC, Aura • Passionate about pushing the web forward & making development fun again
Nathan Hammond
Built a company on top of Node.js before scuttling it. Competed in both of the previous Node Knockouts, winning Eran Hammer-Lahav's unofficial award for "Most Geek-a-licious" app in 2011.
Andrzej Mazur
I'm a blogger, HTML5 games developer, señor JavaScript viking, newbie speaker and creator of the js13kGames competition.
If you're around Warsaw, Poland when the hackathon happens you can come by and visit me at the satellite location - Node.js Weekend. We have free beer and pizza!
Matt Ranney
HiringVoxer CTO.
Node contributor and fan.
Sean Kandel
HiringCTO at Trifacta.
Rosa Wu
Rosa is a product manager at Erly. Prior to graduating from Stanford GSB in June, she was a product manager at Google through the Postini acquisition.
Jason Gilmore
Jason is author of several popular books, including the bestselling "Beginning PHP and MySQL, Fourth Edition", and "Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework". He's cofounder of the popular CodeMash conference, a contributing editor to Developer.com and PHPBuilder.com, and a project editor for Wrox/Wiley Publishing. Jason regularly consults for a wide variety of clientele across the United States.
Eran Hammer
Mobile web services manager at Walmart, leading its node.js development. Most recently the lead author and editor of the OAuth specifications. An avid farmer, and the owner of three emus all named Kevin.
Reuben Katz
ceo & co-founder - @gklst - Serial entrepreneur x6, I am a duck, seed investor, mentor & dad. Sometimes I write things. http://rekatz.tumblr.com/
Visnu Pitiyanuvath
Visnu mistakenly formatted his first harddrive when he was 11 and regretably got into war dialing the year caller id was introduced. He’s been a CEO before and had the wrong idea that organizing node.js knockout wouldn’t be that hard. His favorite number is e.
Jacques Crocker
Hyperactive hacker, co-founder of @lizibot. Competed in the first Node Knockout (2010) to build http://Scrabb.ly (won Popularity prize).
Bryan Schreier
sequoia capital, google, morgan stanley, princeton. currently supporting inkling, dropbox, hearsay social, tunein, mindsnacks, qualtrics, agilone in their effort to make a difference.
Matthew Eernisse
Developer at Microsoft, working on Yammer. Creator of Geddy Web framework, Jake build tool, TimezoneJS, and the Model ORM. Japanese language, drums and 80s hair-metal.
Jan Lehnardt
Dissatisfied with the status-quo.
@couchdb. @jsconfeu. @couchbase.
Duct tape artist.
Ryan McGrath
Kickass web developer/designer/author; hacker on various projects.
Creator of NKO 2010 innovation category runner-up: MapRejuice.
Alex Donn
Developer Evangelist with the AT&T Developer Program. I love startupweekend.org, mobile app development & am an adrenaline junkie ☁——– ✈
Aaron Boyd
HiringI love building software and I'm a big fan of Node. We chose Node for Nomic's JSON api. When I started coding, things like UML took up a lot of time and "hackathon" was not in the vernacular. Much has changed for the better! Hackity, hack, hack, cheers!
Mary Glide
HiringMary designs and develops tools for Sequoia Capital.
Tristan Dunn
JS developer at Google. Craft beer enthusiast. Developer for Open Beer Database. Louisiana native.
Geoff Hollingworth
Ericsson evangelist driving next generation telco cloud and communications. Also hacking/posting on #node, #webrtc, #html5, #js. Rethink or die...
Brian Noguchi
Steven Soroka
Whit Thiele
Founder of dial.io - a disruptive enterprise telephony & call center suite in the cloud built with nodejs technologies. Over 5 billion interactions handled to date worldwide. General availability of the platform is coming soon.
Christian Kvalheim
I work for 10gen developing the node.js driver and evangelizing in the node community. When not writing javascript I indulge myself in C, Java and other languages.
I'm based out of Barcelona where I enjoy the great weather and food.
Amir Manji
Amir works on Tapjoy's backend. He personally handles every request that hits Tapjoy's API.
Amir lives in San Francisco and enjoys Ruby on Rails and giving high-fives.
Peter Berg
Entrepreneur turned "intrapreneur", currently working on product strategy at Visa, focused on new and emerging methods of payment (mobile, local, online). Previously, co-founder of October Three. Before that, joined consumer products startup Joby as an early employee and ended up running online strategy & marketing as well as numerous operational initiatives. Prior to that, helped start a financial services SaaS platform that was acquired by JP Morgan.
Aniyia Williams
HiringCommunity Manager at Voxer.
Cyril Ebersweiler
Cyril Ebersweiler is an entrepreneur and globe-trotter investor in SOSventures International, an early stage venture capital firm. He has been hanging out in Asia for the last ten years, and founded the first mentorship-driven seed funding program in China, Chinaccelerator.
Dmitri Melikyan
Founder & CEO, Nodetime
Sara Huth
SoCal to SF - Building a great team at @Square, Cat Lady, Wine Drinker, Lakers, Nap enthusiast, Runner, and lover of all things pink.
Eric Kryski
Jack of all trades, mastering some. Writing a new client side medical imaging app. Founder of yycjs. Blogs on occasion at http://erickryski.com.
Samantha Quist
Samantha is a self-taught developer, career growth hacker, and startup founder. She was previously on the product management team at Google and led online growth initiatives for social media data startup Gnip. Now she's founder and CEO of Copywriter Central, a startup that helps businesses discover and hire freelance writers.
J Chris Anderson
J Chris Anderson is a coufohnder of Couchbase and an Apache CouchDB committer and co-author of the O'Reilly CouchDB book. He's all about the future, hacking node.js apps, and making databases fast.
Aaron Heckmann
After selling his first startup built on the Node/Express/MongoDB stack in 2010, Aaron joined LearnBoost where he became deeply involved in Mongoose, the MongoDB ODM. These days he works at 10gen (the MongoDB company) maintaining Mongoose and continues to author and contribute to a wide array of other Nodejs modules. Oh yeah, and he loves hummus.
Hwan-Joon Choi
pho challenge, boot drinking, buffsets
Austin Hallock
Co-founder and CEO of Clay.io - a hub for HTML5 games. Developer of four HTML5 games.
Mark Cavage
Hiring
Kami Lott
I spend my days setting up events and giving away prizes as the Community Manager for GitHub.
Othman Laraki
growth @ twitter by profession / kiter by addiction / nerd & entrepreneur by passion / casablanca native by origination (العراقي)
Paolo Fragomeni
Hiring
Zeke Sikelianos
designer @heroku
Farrin A. Reid
HiringSupport Engineer @ Nodejitsu. He spends his free time making beer, coding, gaming, and tinkering with open-source hardware in Seattle.
Fred Yates
Freelance web designer, former node knockout competitor, current judge. gl hf
Rob Kent
Rob is a technology lawyer who works with Silicon Valley companies on high stakes IP litigation. Before law school, Rob worked in the industry for four years, coding network and database applications. Rob has a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in Computer Science from Kalamazoo College. His ultimate goal is to start a brewery, where he will tweet the progress of every batch.
Garann Means
JavaScript developer, unreliable narrator.
Huned Botee
Designer + Hacker + Malcontent.
Justin Isaf
Justin runs the community team for the Huffington Post, is a recovering entrepreneur and the Director of Community for The StartupBus.
Chris Umbel
J?Ruby and node.js developer with a passion for big data, natural language processing and highly available/scalable systems. Maintainer of the "natural" general-purpose natural language library for node.
Jason Hoffman
HiringFounding Joyeur: working everyday to make sure the best technology wins
Nathan White
CO —Coding node in the Rockies @ 9000ft off the grid (sometimes). Worked with nodejs at 3 of companies listed here
Nate Boyd
HiringCurious mind and Co-founder of Nomic.
Rebecca Murphey
I’m a JavaScript developer at Bocoup, a co-organizer of TXJS, and the author of jQuery Fundamentals. I’ve spoken on emerging JavaScript topics at several conferences, including JSConf and JSConf.eu, and blog at rmurphey.com.
Daniel Shaw
HiringNode.js Engineer at Voxer. Co-Founder and Partner of TheNodeFirm. Regular seat and organizer of the NodeUp podcast. Startup advisor. Developer mentor. Polyglot, skater dude and dad.
Steve Corona
CTO at Twitpic. Author of Scaling PHP Applications. Blogs at stevecorona.com
Brian Rue
Co-founder/CEO at Ratchet.io. Personal blog: http://brianrue.wordpress.com
Danny Burkes
And where the offence is let the great axe fall
Patrick Meenan
Patrick is the founder of webpagetest.org and is part of the team at Google responsible for making the web faster.
Kelsey Grode
Hiring
Dustan Kasten
Deep Vs, baby. That’s what’s up.
Gerad Suyderhoud
Founder Fortnight Labs; Co-Creator: Node Knockout; Triathlete
Andris Reinman
Author of Nodemailer and some other lesser known Node modules. Mostly doing e-mail related stuff. With JavaScript. In the server. Yay!
Jakub Nesetril
Founded apiary.io—a 100% node-based REST API tools company (and NodeKO 2010 Winner for Most Useful product)
Remy Sharp
Ginger Ninja JavaScript Abridger.
...well, I used to be ginger. The JavaScript is still kinda true!
Ben Wen
Computer Nerd; VP Marketing and Sales at MongoLab.
Michael Bleigh
Fellow at @intridea, co-founder of @divshot, creator of @quptv, purveyor of fine open source software for the web.
Joe Hitchens
Joe Hitchens and his company Sleepless Software Inc., have been providing custom software development, consulting and analysis for over 20 years for all common software platforms and languages, including mobile and social. A true veteran, he can not seem to find a problem that he can't solve. Nevertheless, he presses on tirelessly in hopes of one day finding an actual challenge.
Joe is a genuine Javascript expert. He was writing game servers with embedded javascript engines in the mid 1990s, and makes JS jump through hoops to this day. He has designed and built many complex and highly scalable solutions for companies such as Electronic Arts, Stanford University libraries, Mattel, and many others.
Joe and his motley crew of guerilla, trench-coding, mercenary, node-warriors are currently working on all sorts of cool, custom software for various wonderful clients across the country.
Cole Krumbholz
Supreme Allied Commander, backlift.com
Christian Sanz
Cofounder/CTO of Geeklist (@gklst). On a quest to build the world's largest community for Geeks #programmer #dad #chileno
Timothy Lee
Tim works with mobile, cloud and software companies. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2009, Tim worked at Google where he managed European marketing and product launch strategy. While at Google, he also conceived the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Earlier, Tim worked at McKinsey & Company in London and at microprocessor IP company, ARM, in Cambridge UK. Tim has a Masters in Electrical and Information Engineering from Cambridge University, and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
Swift
Meet Swift, developer evangelist at-large for SendGrid in New York and one of the founders of Hacker League. Swift spends his day helping developers make awesome stuff and hacks on node.js projects in his spare time.
Sean Lynch
HiringCanadian, baker, and API geek. Platform Product Manager at Dropbox.
Drew Blas
Drew has been a Rails developer for 7 years and a Node developer for 2. He's always working to bring the fashionable hotness like Mongo, Riak, Chef, & node into the everyday lexicon at large corporations, helping them keep up with the ever changing web development landscape.
xdite
Rails developer / Blogger @ Taiwan. specialized in developing websites using cutting-edge technologies.
Grand Prize winner of Facebook World Hack 2012.
Joshua Holbrook
HiringSupport head for Nodejitsu. Hacks on Lil' Flatty, jitsu and more! Likes science, math, computers, and the frigid northern wastes of Alaska.
Devon Govett
Devon Govett is a JavaScript hacker at Official.fm Labs, author of some open source projects, and blogger at Badass JavaScript.
Nathan Tsoi
Hiringἀρετή
Jeffrey Kalmikoff
CXO at Betable. Design enthusiast. Startup advisor. Metalhead. Husband. Previously at Threadless, Digg, and SimpleGeo. List maker.
Ben Alman
I'm a senior developer at @bocoup, creator of @gruntjs, and frequent contributor to @jquery. I also coined the term IIFE and play a mean funk bass.
Charlie McConnell
HiringRetired actor, retired bartender, retired rock musician, part-time mad scientist, and the man in charge of keeping Nodejitsu's public cloud running.
Nate Smith
Nikolai Onken
Nikolai has been developing web applications since 1997 and since then he has been continuously involved with open source projects such as the Dojo Toolkit.
Since 2008, mobile cross platform development has been the primary focus of his work and he likes to push the browser as platform forward through projects like HumanAPI - yes Robots are coming to JavaScript.
Being a co-founder of uxebu, a development shop based in Munich, Amsterdam and Palo Alto, he is now developing tools like apparat.io for developers to make mobile HTML5 development easier.
Ron Palmeri
Startup product and markets guy - started MkII Ventures & Prism, also helped start GC/Google Voice, OpenDNS, Scout Labs, Swivel and others. building new stuff.
Jesse Pedersen
Hiring
sarah nahm
Designer specializing in data visualization and information interfaces.
Chris Matthieu
Chris Matthieu was the founder of Nodester, the opensource Node.JS Platform-as-a-Service offering which was acquired by AppFog in 2012. He is also the co-founder of NodeAZ, Arizona's Node.JS user group. Chris is working on a new startup called Twelephone which is positioned to add realtime communications to Twitter.
Tom Longson
<3
Jeremy Johnstone
I'm a geek who likes doing good things in the world. Passionate JavaScript programmer evangelizing the benefits of using it everywhere from top to bottom of stack. Deep experience in building both backend and frontend systems for top 10 Internet sites. I also am a cofounder of Random Hacks of Kindness (http://www.rhok.org)
Greg Dotson
Greg is a technologist with many years of experience at Silicon Valley startups.
He was most recently CTO of Blurb.com and has held executive technology positions at such companies as Unicru, Guru and adam.com
John Britton
Sara Wood
SVP/Product & Design for Wikia. Mom of two (including this little dude: @complaineypants). Lover of donuts.
Mikeal Rogers
Romain Huet
Co-Founder & CTO of Jolicloud. All things JavaScript, Node.js & HTML5. Open Web Advocate.
Bill Pijewski
Hiring
Steven Tuck
HiringGeneral Manager, Joyent Cloud
Matt Miller
Former software engineer turned lawyer practicing patent, trademark, copyright, and technology law in New Orleans.
Dmitry Dimov
Dmitry Dimov has worked on enterprise software, consumer web and the service cloud, and – for something completely different – rooftop solar energy. He's now at Sling Media.
Daniel Erickson
Nomad war-roomer. Traveling code slinger extraordinaire. Maintainer of GeddyJS. I work at the best company in the world: http://yammer.com/jobs
Will Cook
Big Bad consists of 3 developers. An artist (Brian) a designer (Will) and a programmer (Dan). We are good friends and veterans of the video game industry.
Ciaran Jessup
Engineering manager for @thisisnumero and open source advocate.
You'll find me contributing, authoring and hacking on various OSS projects across t'internet :)
These are some of my node.js projects.
Mayumi
Currently the Director of Product at electric imp, a company trying to bring wifi to every device, and previously a product marketeer @ Google and Mozilla.
Ron Hornbaker
Entrepreneur-in-residence, Sequoia Capital
Gabriel Silk
Hiring
Alex Russell
Alex Russell is a software engineer at Google working on Chrome, Chrome Frame, and the web platform. He serves as one of Google's representatives to ECMA TC39 and contributes to web standards development in many areas. He's (still) fighting IE 6 so you don't have to.
Chad Dyer
HiringChad manages the technology systems and tools used internally at Sequoia Capital.
Elizabeth Cha
Internet observer. Media Studies student. Marketer. Writer. News junkie.
Chris Keane
Currently rocking out at OpenSky, I build products and mustaches with equal abandon.
Samy Kamkar
think bad, do good http://samy.pl
Giri Sreenivas
Founder and CEO of Mobilisafe, acquired by Rapid7. Now VP/GM for Mobile at Rapid7. Entrepreneur, technologist, husband and avid reader. Stanford and Carnegie Mellon alum with engineering, architecture and management experiences at 4thpass (Motorola), Lockheed Martin, Panasonic and T-Mobile.
Keith Simmons
Jerry Sievert
Just this guy, you know?
Matthew Podwysocki
I'm a blogger, open source junkie and maintainer of a number of open source projects at Microsoft.
Geoffrey Grosenbach
Independent publisher of PeepCode Screencasts
Peter Braden
Currently doing js consulting, but formerly a front end eng. at yammer, and created node-opencv
Brent Fitzgerald
Brent was Director of Engineering at card.io, recently acquired by PayPal. He previously led software at Sifteo, co-founded Taco Lab, and wrote weird social contract systems and lewd icon repositories at the MIT Media Lab.
Thomas J. Loverro
Venture investor at RRE Ventures in NYC. Formerly Marketing at Drobo.
Ben Cherry
Ben is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco. He's worked as a Front-end Engineer at Twitter and Slide, and has done Node.js and iOS programming for his own startup. He also blogs at Adequately Good.
Chris Sharkey
HiringChris Sharkey has been involved in software development for over 12 years and has developed some of the most successful online businesses in Australia. Chris developed holiday accomodation website Stayz, Australia's most popular holiday website, which he sold in 2006 to Fairfax Digital. He is featured in the book, “50 Great E-Businesses and the Minds Behind Them”. Chris currently runs many online businesses and is the CTO of Bislr.com.
