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Technical Leadership

We believe in open source. Our technical team includes the creators and co-founders of the most widely used open source data management technologies. Damien Katz created CouchDB – Jan Lehnardt and Chris Anderson are major contributors. Dustin Sallings has more commits to Memcached than anyone on the planet. Steve Yen invented Moxi. The Couchbase team is reponsible for about 90% of Membase Server code. GeoCouch is the brainchild of one of our engineers. And the list goes on.

We’re proud of our team and their contributions to these and numerous other open source projects (see sidebar). This group, and their contributions, are fundamental to the success of Couchbase's products and to the success of the open software community.

  • Damien Katz, Co-Founder

    Damien Katz is the creator of Apache CouchDB and co-founder of CouchOne, now Couchbase. He began his developer life working on Lotus Notes for Iris Associates, acquired by IBM. With a number of patents under his belt and broad acknowledgement of the superior sync capabilities of Notes, Damien set out to create a new kind of database better suited to the needs of web and cloud computing. In 2005 he stated he was working on a "storage system for a large scale object database" and called it CouchDB (Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware). In 2008, it became a top-level Apache project maintained at the Apache Software Foundation. In 2009, Damien, along with J. Chris Anderson and Jan Lehnardt, founded CouchOne.
    Blog: damienkatz.net
    Twitter: @damienkatz

  • Dustin Sallings, Co-Founder

    Dustin is a core committer for Membase and Memcached, and the creator and maintainer of spymemcached, the high-performance memcached client for Java. Previously, Dustin was half of the Beyond.com performance engineering team and core developer of the Beyond.com ecommerce engine. Later, he was the lead engineer responsible for scaling 2Wire’s device network infrastructure enabling it to manage and monitor millions of distributed devices, while simultaneously supporting the continuous addition of features to the system.
    Blog and projects: http://dustin.github.com/
    Twitter: @dlsspy

  • J. Chris Anderson, Co-Founder

    J. Chris Anderson is an Apache CouchDB committer and co-author of the O'Reilly book CouchDB: The Definitive Guide. He enjoys working on JavaScript CouchApps which can be peer-replicated just like any other data. Chris is obsessed with bending the physics of the web, and giving control back to users. In 2009, Chris, along with Damien Katz and Jan Lehnardt, founded CouchOne.
    Twitter: @jchris

  • Jan Lehnardt, Co-Founder

    Jan Lehnardt has been involved with CouchDB since 2006 as a developer, consultant and evangelist. In late 2009 he co-founded CouchOne (now Couchbase) together with CouchDB inventor Damien Katz and contributor J Chris Anderson. He's the co-author of O’Reilly’s CouchDB: The Definitive Guide. He enjoys working with and on open source software. Jan is a co-organizer of the JSConf-family of conferences, most notably JSConf EU as well as the Buzzwords series of conferences focused on Big Data, Analysis, Search and Storage. He lives in Berlin, Germany.
    Twitter: @janl

  • Steve Yen, Co-Founder

    Steve is a world-class technologist and successful entrepreneur with a track record of founding and building groundbreaking companies. Prior to Membase, Steve co-founded Escalate, and architected its unique, multitenant e-commerce and order management software-as-a-service application. Escalate was acquired by GE Retail Systems in 2004. Previously, Steve co-founded Kiva Software, where he was a key part of the technology team that created the world’s first application server with high-scale deployments at E*Trade, Bank of America and Sabre. Kiva was acquired by Netscape in 1997. Steve is a UC Berkeley Computer Science graduate.
    Blog: http://blog.membase.com/
    Twitter: steveyentweets

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Open Source Projects

Couchbase technologists have created, committed, and contributed to numerous open source projects including:

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