The Solid team help coordinate the standardisation work and support those who are implementing and using Solid.

If you are interested in joining the Solid team email info@solidproject.org with your CV and motivation letter.

You can read more about the process around how the Solid Team work together which is open for suggestions around how to improve by submitting an issue or sending an email to info@solidproject.org.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Solid Director Sir Tim Berners-Lee is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Inrupt. Named one of Time Magazine’s ‘100 Most Important People of the 20th Century,’ Tim invented the web while at CERN in 1989. He is the Founder and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the international standards forum for technical development of the Web, and the Web Foundation whose mission is that the World Wide Web serves Humanity. He co-founded and is President of the Open Data Institute in London. Tim is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Computer Science and AI Lab (“CSAIL”). In April 2017, Sir Tim was awarded the Turing Prize which is considered the “Nobel Prize of Computing”.

Editors

Editors are responsible for maintaining and reviewing suggestions to the Solid specification.

Sarven Capadisli

Solid Editor Sarven Capadisli contributes to the advancement of technical specifications in the Solid ecosystem and aims to ensure open consensus within a common ethical framework. He is a technical architect at Inrupt and has been involved in the evolution of Solid alongside TimBL at MIT since 2015.

Ruben Verborgh

Solid Editor Ruben Verborgh focuses on ecosystem architecture and developer experience.

Justin Bingham

Solid Editor Justin Bingham is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Janeiro Digital, where he and his team apply Solid to solve large-scale problems across the world. He is closely involved in the evolution of the Solid ecosystem, including data interoperability patterns, secure data boundaries, developer tooling, and frictionless end user experience.

Dmitri Zagidulin

Solid Editor Dmitri is Senior Consulting Software Engineer at Digital Bazaar and co-founder of Ro Network. He is also the Co-Co-Chair of the Secure Data Storage Working Group at the Decentralised Identity Foundation. He was part of the MIT Solid project.

Kjetil Kjernsmo

Solid Editor Kjetil is a Senior Advisor with the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, where he works as a technical expert on normative technologies and Digital Public Goods. He has a PhD in Informatics from the University of Oslo in Norway and has 25 years of experience with social and semantic web technology.

Creators

Creators are responsible for maintaining and reviewing suggestions to solidproject.org which includes Solid content such as the newsletter This Month in Solid.

Kay Kim

Creator Kay is a technical writer at Inrupt and a newcomer to Solid.

Kyra Assaad

Creator Kyra Assaad is the Product Designer at Inrupt. She works to ensure that the Solid user experience is accessible and useable for all. Passionate about increasing representation and participation of women, people of colour and other under-represented groups in the Solid community, she helped form and now serves as one of the chairs of the Solid Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) team.

Virginia Balseiro

Creator Virginia Balseiro is a software engineer at Inrupt, mainly focusing on PodBrowser. She is the founder and organizer of Women of Solid, an online community for women interested in Solid. She also founded and organizes a community for people new to the world of web development, where they can support each other and participate in Open Source projects together.

Vincent Tunru

Creator Vincent Tunru is a front-end engineer at Inrupt. Before Inrupt he worked on finding out how technology can help ensuring open access to academic research. He is focusing on technical writing for app developers to learn how to build Solid apps.

Nicolas Seydoux

Creator Nicolas Seydoux is a developer at Inrupt. He joined the company after his PhD on the Semantic Web of Things, mixing semantic web and IoT. In this domain, he contributed to FOSS software and to an industrial standard acknowledging the importance of semantic interoperability. He also worked on decentralised reasoning and open data platforms.

Jeff Zucker

Creator Jeff Zucker has developed software for and led projects at UNICEF, UNESCO, New York City Department for the Ageing, Columbia University, and at not-for-profit agencies internationally and in Oregon, USA. He is the published author of books and articles on multi-cultural education, adult literacy, and the relationship of technology to society as well as a number of open source software packages.

Administrators

Administrators are responsible for administration of tools, systems, and services used for advancing Solid.

Tim Berners-Lee

Administrator Sir Tim Berners-Lee is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Inrupt.

Jackson Morgan

Administrator Jackson Morgan is a freelance Solid developer for o.team

Justin Bingham

Administrator Justin Bingham is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Janeiro Digital

Marrelle Bailey

Administrator Marrelle Bailey is the moderator for Solid World and works on managing the Solid Team projects. She is also the lead chair for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Team for the Solid Community. She works at Inrupt as the Community & Communications Organizer.