ActiveState Technical Leadership
Jeff Hobbs: VP, Engineering
Jeff oversees development of all ActiveState products—from language distributions to development tools and our cloud solutions, including the strategy of integrating our products for an end-to-end desktop to cloud experience.
Though he’s responsible for leading and fostering our talented development team, Jeff is a coder at heart! He is passionate about technologies that just work, making the lives of developers easier. His current obsession is making Stackato the best private PaaS platform for developers: using any language, any infrastructure, and leveraging open source - so that applications just deploy and scale in any cloud. Jeff is a contributing author for Perl and Python extensions, and has been a member of the Tcl Core Team for more than a decade. Jeff is co-author of “Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk”, and has been a speaker at Cloud Expo, OSCON, the Tcl Annual Conference, and others. Jeff works closely with ActiveState customers including Cisco, Boeing, Synopsys, NASA and Intel to deliver the best dynamic languages solutions for their development projects.
Before joining ActiveState, Jeff was the Tcl Ambassador at Scriptics and a software engineer at Siemens. He has a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.
Diane Mueller: Cloud Evangelist
As Cloud Evangelist at ActiveState, Diane interfaces with enterprise IT and community developers to evangelize the next generation of cloud computing - with platform-as-a-service! She was instrumental in identifying, building, and positioning ActiveState's Stackato solution, where she still works with the community to gather feedback. She has been designing and implementing products and applications embedded into mission critical financial and accounting systems at F500 corporations for over 20 years. Diane has been actively involved in development efforts of XBRL Open Standard for the past 11 years. She serves on both the XBRL International Steering Committee and the Best Practices Board, chairing the software interoperability working group and the XBRL Rendering Technical Working Group, as well as an active member of the RIXML.org working group.
In addition, she is the host and editor of XBRLSpy.com and a half dozen other drupal-based sites that allow her to pontificate on her interests ranging from geocaching, her pugs, and the Pacific Northwest she calls home.
Ingy döt Net: Developer Advocate and Community Evangelist
As the newest member of ActiveState's technical leadership team, Ingy works with developers to help them get their applications to the cloud. He is a software artist and inventor, whose mission in life is to see computers solving the real world problems that we humans face today. To that end, Ingy continually looks for new ideas to make software development simpler, while searching for more ways to socialize those ideas.
With over twenty years of experience, he has been a vocal leader in open source software for the last ten. He is a regular speaker at OSCON, OSDC, and YAPC; the inventor of YAML - the human friendly data format for all languages; and module author for Perl (CPAN), Python (PyPI), Perl 6 and Bash. Before re-joining ActiveState, Ingy was the first programmer at SocialText and was CTO of FatPort. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Northern Illinois University.
Jan Dubois: Senior Perl Developer
Jan is a senior Perl developer and the technical lead for all ActiveState Perl products.
He is an active member of the core Perl development team where his primary focus is the Windows platform. He also leads the libwin32 Perl project, a collection of Windows Perl modules. Jan is the primary author of the Win32 and Win32::OLE Perl extensions and also maintains various other Perl modules. Over the years, he has contributed to "The Perl Journal" and "PerlMonth" and has spoken on Perl at industry conferences, including OSCON.
Before joining the ActiveState team, Jan created innovative solutions for customers in the German banking and insurance industry. He has a Masters Degree in Physics (Diplom-Physiker) from the University of Hamburg.
Andreas Kupries: Senior Tcl Developer
Andreas is a senior Tcl developer at ActiveState where he continually enhances the ActiveTcl distribution and works on the Tcl Dev Kit component of ASPN Tcl. He's a member of the Tcl Core Team and is the Tcllib release manager. Andreas is also the primary author of more than 25 Tcl modules and extensions, including Trf and Memchan.
As a Tcl expert, Andreas has presented on the topic at international conferences and has published conference papers on niche Tcl topics including "Reflected and Transformed Channels", "Tools for a new generation of Tcl package documentation" and "Experiences with Modularizing the Tcl Core for Better Portability". Andreas works closely with ActiveState customers including Boeing and Cisco to ensure Tcl adds value to their software development projects.
Prior to ActiveState, Andreas developed software for Ingenieurbuero Kisters and Ascom Deutschland GmbH in Germany. He has a Master in Computer Science (Diplom-Informatiker) from the RWTH Aachen.
Todd Whiteman: Komodo Development Lead
Todd Whiteman is the Development Lead for Komodo IDE. He works adeptly with Mozilla, Python and JavaScript to ensure that Komodo IDE is the IDE of choice for development teams. Todd has been working on Komodo IDE for nearly 5 years, adding components such as the Vi Key Bindings, Distributed Source Code Control, 64-bit Linux builds as well as Remote SSH support into Komodo IDE.
Before joining ActiveState he worked as a software engineer for MDSI in Canada and Schlumberger in Australia.