Meet the Mozzers!

2010-02-25 07:00

Over the past few months, we've announced a number of exciting changes here at the mozPlex. Some of those include becoming focused on our software, new SEO tools and a cultural change with our TAGFEE Tenets. With that, we're committed to being transparent and authentic and feel we've done a great job keeping the SEOmoz community up to date on many of these changes.

Meet the Mozzers

However, one area we've been slacking is in ensuring that our community knows who we are, as a team. There are many mozzers who mainly work behind the scenes building tools, or providing excellent customer service to our members. Along with our shift from consulting, we've had a few organizational changes and people's roles have changed. Additionally we have a number of moz Associates that help contribute to the blog and provide expertise in Q & A.

We'd like to take this opportunity to introduce you to our team, and ask you to get to know us a little better. There are a few new mozzers that may even surprise you! This is an exciting time for us and the community and we're excited to introduce ourselves. Each mozzer was asked to provide their title, social media accounts, top moz moment (tools created, blog posts written, etc.), then I asked them to answer a few fun questions. So without further ado, I'd like you to meet the mozzers.

Development Team

Every team plays an important role to the success of SEOmoz and our tools, but the development team is key. Without this group we wouldn't have the suite of amazing tools that we have to offer our members today. Browse through the developers and see who has worked on your favorite tool, and learn more about the people behind the scenes.

Ben Hendrickson

Sr Software Engineer

@bhendrickson

moz Moment
"From the day I started building the Linkscape prototype to the day we launched the first version was about 10 months. I think that project went well."

I am proud to answer questions like this in a confusing and self-referential way.

Chas Williams

Software Developer

moz Moment
"I work mostly on Linkscape these days. I wrote the code for anchor text distributions and the new views for OSE, so the OSE launch was a proud moment for me :)"

My favorite Youtube video.

David Joslin

Systems Engineer

David on LinkedIn

moz Moment
"Since starting in August I have worked to improve our uptime significantly through monitoring, tuning, and application fixes. "

On Saturday morning I hang out with my kids until my wife gets her beauty sleep and then I try to get a mountain bike ride in before working in the yard and other chores.

Jeff Pollard

Lead Web Developer

@nFluxx

Jeff on LinkedIn

moz Moment
"I make sure your website experience is a wonderful one! :)"

On Saturday morning I like to catch up on sleep.

Kate Matsudaira

VP Engineering

@katemats

moz Moment
"Helping bring SEO tools and technology to the next level"

Why is the sky blue? Because of Avogadro's number - the number of molecules in a mole determine the wavelength of light reflected (I learned this in my physical chemistry class when we had to derive Avogadro's number if the sky was yellow -- as a result I will never forget this bit of trivia).