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 works a developer at Inrupt where he focuses on the Solid test suite development. He has a PhD in Informatics from the University of Oslo in Norway and has 20 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.

Vincent Tunru

Creator Vincent 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 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 full stack engineer at Inrupt.

Justin Bingham

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