The React 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.
[@acdlite on GitHub](https://github.com/acdlite) · [@acdlite on Twitter](https://twitter.com/acdlite)
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.
Brian studied art in college and did programming on the side to pay for his education. Eventually, he realized that he enjoys working on open source. Brian has one [one-person band](https://soundcloud.com/brianvaughn/) and two [two-person](https://soundcloud.com/pilotlessdrone) [bands](https://soundcloud.com/pinwurm). He also takes care of the cutest cat in the world.
Dan got into programming after he accidentally discovered Visual Basic inside Microsoft PowerPoint. He has found his true calling in turning [Sebastian](#sebastian-markbage)'s tweets into long-form blog posts. Dan occasionally wins at Fortnite by hiding in a bush until the game ends.
[@trueadm on GitHub](https://github.com/trueadm) · [@trueadm on Twitter](https://twitter.com/trueadm)
Dominic is interested in travelling, drum and bass, stand-up comedy and spending time with the family. He most enjoys hacking on new unexplored ideas around UIs and accessibility and has a passion for tweaking and optimizing code to get the most performance out of things.
[@lunaruan on GitHub](https://github.com/lunaruan) · [@lunaruan on Twitter](https://twitter.com/lunaruan)
Luna learned programming because she thought it meant creating video games. Instead, she ended up working on the Pinterest web app, and now on React itself. Luna doesn't want to make video games anymore, but she plans to do creative writing if she ever gets bored.
[@rachelnabors on GitHub](https://github.com/rachelnabors) · [@rachelnabors on Twitter](https://twitter.com/rachelnabors)
Rachel wrote a [book about UI animation](https://abookapart.com/products/animation-at-work) once and worked with MDN and the W3C on the web animations API. Now she is busy with education materials and community engineering on the React team. Secretly, she is an award-winning cartoonist for teenage girls. Catch her making fancy tea with lukewarm water in the microkitchen.
[@rickhanlonii on GitHub](https://github.com/rickhanlonii) · [@rickhanlonii on Twitter](https://twitter.com/rickhanlonii)
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.
[@sebmarkbage on GitHub](https://github.com/sebmarkbage) · [@sebmarkbage on Twitter](https://twitter.com/sebmarkbage)
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.
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](https://www.sethwebster.com) and flying for animal rescues in the northeastern United States.
[@yuzhi on GitHub](https://github.com/yuzhi) · [@yuzhiz on Twitter](https://twitter.com/yuzhiz)
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 manages the React team. 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.
React was originally created by [Jordan Walke](https://github.com/jordwalke). Today, React has over a thousand open source contributors. We'd like to recognize a few people who have made significant contributions to React and its documentation in the past and have helped maintain them over the years:
We'd like to give special thanks to [Tom Occhino](https://github.com/tomocchino) and [Adam Wolff](https://github.com/wolffiex) for their guidance and support over the years. We'd also like to thank all the volunteers who [translated React into other languages](https://isreacttranslatedyet.com/).
