Meet the Team
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
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.
Andrey Lunyov
Andrey started his career as a designer and then gradually transitioned into web development. After joining the React Data team at Meta he worked on adding an incremental JavaScript compiler to Relay, and then later on, worked on removing the same compiler from Relay. Outside of work, Andrey likes to play music and engage in various sports.
Dan Abramov
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.
Dave McCabe
An engineer by trade and outdoorsman at heart, David has long been an innovator in the field of programming-while-sunbathing. Besides surprising his colleagues with unique outdoor video-call backgrounds, he enjoys playing guitar (in sunlit meadows, of course) and martial arts (still indoors, gotta work on that).
Eli White
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.
Jason Bonta
Jason likes having large volumes of Amazon packages delivered to the office so that he can build forts. Despite literally walling himself off from his team at times and not understanding how for-of loops work, we appreciate him for the unique qualities he brings to his work.
Joe Savona
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.
Josh Story
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.
Kathryn Middleton
Kathryn initially discovered web development when she wanted to make her myspace page look cool. She ended up majoring in Computer Science, and quickly became a huge fan of React building features on the Instagram.com team. Outside of work she loves playing pingpong, teaching spin classes, and going plant shopping.
Lauren Tan
Lauren’s programming career peaked when she first discovered the <marquee> tag. She’s been chasing that high ever since. When she’s not adding bugs into React, she enjoys dropping cheeky memes in chat, and playing all too many video games with her partner, and her dog Zelda.
Luna Wei
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).
Matt Carroll
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.
Mengdi Chen
While working on his Digital Arts degree Mengdi was conceited about his front-end skills because his CSS worked perfectly even on IE6. But soon React opened a new door of programming for him, and he has been dreaming of joining the React team ever since. Outside of work, he is usually busy chasing his two kids around or collecting strange recipes.
Mofei Zhang
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).
Rick Hanlon
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.
Sean Keegan
After a first career as a math teacher, Sean remembered that one intro to comp sci class he had to take as a prereq and thought “that was kind of fun!”. One coding bootcamp and several tech jobs later, Sean discovered developer advocacy and hasn’t looked back. Outside of work, Sean enjoys ultimate frisbee, video games, and researching (but rarely implementing) better ways to care for his houseplants.
Sebastian Markbåge
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.
Sebastian Silbermann
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.
Seth Webster
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.
Sophie Alpert
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”.
Yuzhi Zheng
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.
Past contributors
You can find the past team members and other people who significantly contributed to React over the years on the acknowledgements page.