Technical leadership

Hippo's people are setting the pace in the global open source community and have earned their stripes within the Apache Software Foundation

  • Ard Schrijvers

  • Ard studied computational physics in Amsterdam before joining Hippo. He's now the uber performance wizard and comitter to Apache Cocoon and Jackrabbit. He is one of the main developers of the Hippo Site Toolkit.
  • Arjé Cahn

  • Arjé is the technical brain behind Hippo's CMS. He is an avid member of the Apache Software Foundation and has been very active in the organization of the ApacheCon conferences in the past few years. As CTO, Arjé keeps a close eye on all technological developments within Hippo. Nothing escapes his attention.
  • Ate Douma

  • Ate is Hippo's enterprise architect. Ate is one of the core contributors to Apache Jetspeed, Apache Member and Apache Portals PMC. Additionally he has been on the specification board for the JSR-286 (Portal 2.0) standard. He's also a Apache Wicket comitter.
  • Bart van der Schans

  • Bart is our head of infrastructure and our systems architect. Apache HTTPD has no secrets for him. Before Bart joined Hippo he was responsible for infrastructure for Digital City, the Netherlands premier internet provider. Bart has a masters in computational physics from Amsterdam University.
  • Berry van Halderen

  • Berry traded his Mathematics PhD position to become the lead developer of Hippo repository and is actively involved in the JSR 283 standardization committee.
  • David Sean Taylor

  • David is Hippo's open source software architect and product manager based in Sonoma County, California. He has been involved with developing open source at Apache since 2001. David is an Apache member, founder and chairman of Apache Portals, and developer on many Apache Projects including Jetspeed, Pluto, Jakarta, Portals Applications, and Portals Bridges He is a member of the Java Portlet API Expert Group, where he is active in defining enterprise portal standards.
  • Dennis Dam

  • After his study technical informatica Dennis joined Hippo. He recently became a comitter to the Apache Jetspeed project but is also very deeply involved in Hippo 7.
  • Jasha Joachimsthal

  • His email is his lastname@apache.org no wonder he's hard to reach. Hippo's enthusiastic Cocoon committer and CMS pro
  • Jeroen Reijn

  • Jeroen is Hippo's getting things done style technical product expert. No matter how hard your problem is, he'll fix it. He's an Apache Cocoon committer, but since Hippo 7, he has become a JCR fanatic.
  • Randy Watler

  • Randy is our server side Java expert. Specialized in high availability systems, he is our expert on Lucene performance and a Jetspeed committer.
  • Vivek Kumar

  • Next to being a Apache Jetspeed Portal comitter Vivek is now one the Hippo 7 product experts
  • Woonsan Ko

  • This incredible java, Spring guru and Apache Jetspeed committer was flown in from Korea. As a big football fan he is extremely inspired to work just around the corner of Guus Hiddink :)