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Couchio

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About Couchio

Couchio is a Relaxed Company. Get in touch.

Damien Katz

Cofounder and CEO

Damien invented CouchDB in 2005 and keeps working on its core to this day. He has three kids and a ponytail.

Jan Lehnardt

Cofounder and Vice President of Eyeballs

Jan joined Damien working on open-source CouchDB in 2006. He's a drummer, cyclist and likes living in Berlin.

Chris Anderson

Cofounder and Vice President of Hair

Chris joined the CouchDB dev team in 2008 and pushes forward the vision of peer-to-peer web applications to give power and control back to users.

Mikeal Rogers

Vice President of Pastries and Automating Stuff

Mikeal writes JavaScript code and makes sure CouchDB gets more and more awesome everyday. He's on a permanent vacation from being the guy who figures out how to test the Browser.

Nitin Borwankar

Vice President of Business Development & Disco Dancing

Nitin Borwankar started using CouchDB in 2008. He loved it so much he joined the company. He loves talking to customers and helping them have a scintillating experience using CouchDB. He’s @nitin on Twitter.

Claire McCabe

Vice President of Official Attitude

Claire helps girls and geeks equally to rock out. When she isn’t making sure everyone at Couchio is happy, healthy and paid, she is scheming on how to build CouchApps for her book club and her band.

Jason Smith

Vice President of Hosting & Lightning

Jason straddled system administration and software development for many years. Envisioning a world where everyone has simple and reliable access to CouchDB, Jason minds the racks so you can relax.

Jason is a bit of a showoff in Thai restaurants.

Filipe Manana

Vice President of Harmonicas

Works mostly on the replicator and parts of the core CouchDB. He enjoys traveling, food and drink tasting.

He’s based in Lisbon, Portugal.

Anna Weihl

VP of Community Marketing & Chit Chat

Anna joined the team to help get the word out that CouchDB rocks. She loves living in Austin and enjoys running and tex-mex.

Kristina Schneider

Vice President of Colour & Shape

Kristina is a huge fan of web standards and accessibility. She likes her code clean and minimal, and so is her ideal of design.

Volker Mische

Vice President of GeoCouching

Volker loves open source and tries to hard to establish CouchDB in the geospatial world.

He lives in Augsburg, Germany.

Russ Wood

Vice President of Marketing & Lugs

Initially a “creative” in the ad agency world, Russ moved to the marketing side, serving as VP, Marketing for Bank of American (launching the first wireless banking app in the industry), UpShot Corporation, Siebel Systems and Coverity. In addition to his work with Couchio, Russ is a guest lecturer at the University of California, College of Engineering.

Tim Smith

Vice President of Support & Nature Hikes

Tim lives with his wife, Dia, in Dolores, Colorado. He enjoys natural building, dancing, and reading self-help books.