upstream-zulip/templates/corporate/team.html

{% extends "zerver/marketing_page.html" %}

{% set PAGE_TITLE = "The Zulip team" %}

{% set PAGE_DESCRIPTION = "Zulip has the most active open-source
development community of any team chat software, with over 1,500 code
contributors, and 97+ people with 100+ commits." %}


{% block marketing_content %}

<div class="portico-landing why-page">
    <div class="hero bg-pycon drone">
        <div class="bg-dimmer"></div>
        <div class="content">
            <h1 class="center">The Zulip team</h1>
            <p>Learn about the people behind Zulip!</p>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="main">
        <div class="padded-content markdown">
            <div class="inner-content team">
                <p>
                    Over 1,500 people have contributed to the Zulip
                    codebase, from high school students to 30 year
                    industry veterans, from people launching new careers
                    to people looking for community. Meet the team
                    below!
                </p>

                <h1 id="the-zulip-foundation">The Zulip Foundation</h1>
                <p>
                    Zulip is stewarded by the <a
                    href="https://blog.zulip.com/2026/05/15/announcing-zulip-foundation/">Zulip
                    Foundation</a>, with a mission of developing the best
                    possible team chat experience, with a particular focus on
                    public-interest organizations and communities. The Zulip
                    Foundation fully owns Kandra Labs, the company responsible
                    for <a href="/plans/#cloud">hosting</a>,
                    <a href="/plans/#self-hosted">supporting</a>, and improving
                    Zulip for use across all industries.
                </p>

                <h2>Board of Directors</h2>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        Tim Abbott, Zulip’s founder, and project leader from 2015
                        to May 2026.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Greg Price, Zulip's long-time mobile team lead, who had
                        a cofounder-like role from 2017 to May 2026.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Alya Abbott, Zulip’s long-time product lead, who had a
                        cofounder-like role from 2021 to May 2026.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Josh Triplett, a leader in the Rust programming
                        language, experienced in open source, and a
                        <a href="https://zulip.com/case-studies/rust/">major advocate</a>
                        for Zulip.
                    </li>
                </ul>

                <h2>Advisory Board</h2>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        Jeremy Avigad, a Professor of Philosophy and Mathematical
                        Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University and Director of the
                        NSF Institute for Computer-Aided Reasoning in Mathematics.
                        He is a founding member of the
                        <a href="https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/">Lean Community organization</a>,
                        for which Zulip has hosted more than two million messages
                        to date.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Nick Bergson-Shilcock, the CEO and cofounder of the
                        <a href="https://www.recurse.com/">Recurse Center</a>,
                        a programming retreat based in New York whose community of
                        3,000+ alums has run on Zulip since 2013.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Puneeth Chaganti, an OCaml developer working on core
                        ecosystem tooling, and a mentor for
                        <a href="https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/outreach/overview.html">
                            Zulip's Google Summer of Code program
                        </a>
                        since 2018.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Andrew Sutherland, mathematician and senior researcher at
                        the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and President
                        of the Number Theory Foundation. He is a leading advocate
                        of Zulip for research collaborations, including the
                        <a href="https://www.lmfdb.org/">L-functions and Modular Forms Database</a>.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Alex Vandiver, who led Zulip's infrastructure team from
                        2020 to May 2026.
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        Hazel Weakly, a former Director of the
                        <a href="https://haskell.foundation/">Haskell Foundation</a>
                        Board, open source and community advocate, and a Fellow of
                        the <a href="https://nivenly.org/">Nivenly Foundation</a>.
                    </li>
                </ul>

                <h1 id="the-core-team">The core team</h1>
                <p>
                    The Kandra Labs team is a group of amazing people who have
                    numerous years of professional experience working on Zulip,
                    and tens of thousands of Zulip commits between them. They
                    frequently ship major improvements end-to-end across every
                    facet of the product.
                </p>
                <p>
                    Zulip’s strength is its culture and incredibly disciplined
                    development process. If that sounds exciting, take a look at
                    our <a href="/jobs/">job openings</a>!
                </p>

                <!-- Contributors -->
                <h1 id="our-amazing-community">Our amazing community</h1>
                <p>
                    While the team at Kandra Labs provides important
                    leadership, Zulip is built by an incredible
                    distributed community of developers from all
                    around the world.  You can read about
                    the <a href="/history/">project's history</a> if
                    you want to learn more about Zulip's origins.
                </p>
                <p>
                    Here, we recognize the top contributors to the
                    Zulip project on GitHub.  Zulip's community
                    is unusual in how many people outside the core
                    team have made major contributions to the project.
                </p>

                <div class="contributors-list">
                    <input id="total" type="radio" name="tabs" checked />
                    <label for="total"><i class="zulip-icon zulip-icon-globe" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp; Total</label>

                    <input id="server" type="radio" name="tabs" />
                    <label for="server"><i class="fa fa-server" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp; Server & Web</label>

                    <input id="desktop" type="radio" name="tabs" />
                    <label for="desktop"><i class="fa fa-desktop" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp; Desktop</label>

                    <input id="mobile" type="radio" name="tabs" />
                    <label for="mobile"><i class="fa fa-mobile" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp; Mobile</label>

                    <input id="terminal" type="radio" name="tabs" />
                    <label for="terminal"><i class="fa fa-terminal" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp; Terminal</label>

                    <input id="api-clients" type="radio" name="tabs" />
                    <label for="api-clients"><i class="fa fa-code" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp; Integrations</label>

                    <input id="devtools" type="radio" name="tabs" />
                    <label for="devtools"><i class="fa fa-at" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp; Devtools</label>
                    <div id="tab-total" class="contributors">
                        <div class="contributors-grid"></div>
                    </div>
                    <div id="tab-server" class="contributors">
                        <div class="contributors-grid"></div>
                    </div>
                    <div id="tab-desktop" class="contributors">
                        <div class="contributors-grid"></div>
                    </div>
                    <div id="tab-mobile" class="contributors">
                        <div class="contributors-grid"></div>
                    </div>
                    <div id="tab-terminal" class="contributors">
                        <div class="contributors-grid"></div>
                    </div>
                    <div id="tab-api-clients" class="contributors">
                        <div class="contributors-grid"></div>
                    </div>
                    <div id="tab-devtools" class="contributors">
                        <div class="contributors-grid"></div>
                    </div>
                </div>

                <p class="last-updated">
                    Last updated: {{ date }}. <a href="https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/counting-contributions.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Methodology</a>.
                </p>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
{% endblock %}