ActiveState Technical Leadership - The Dynamic Language Experts

Jeff Hobbs

Director, Engineering

Jeff is Director of Engineering, overseeing development of all ActiveState products - from language distributions to development tools and web-based solutions.

Though he’s responsible for leading and fostering our talented development team, Jeff is a coder at heart and dynamic languages are his passion. He’s been a member of the Tcl Core Team for more than a decade and is the primary author of many popular Tcl modules, as well as a contributing author for Perl and Python extensions. Jeff is a Tcl/Tk core maintainer and co-author of “Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk” and regularly publishes papers on the topic. Jeff works closely with ActiveState customers including Cisco, Boeing, Synopsys, NASA and Intel to deliver the best dynamic languages solutions for their development projects.

Before joining ActiveState, Jeff was the Tcl Ambassador at Scriptics and a software engineer at Siemens. He has a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.

Diane Mueller

Director, Enterprise Product Management

Diane Mueller is Director, Enterprise Product Management at ActiveState. She has been designing and implementing products and applications embedded into mission critical financial and accounting systems at F500 corporations for over 20 years. Diane has been actively involved in development efforts of XBRL Open Standard for the past 11 years. She serves on both the XBRL International Steering Committee and the Best Practices Board, chairing the software interoperability working group and the XBRL Rendering Technical Working Group, as well as an active member of the RIXML.org working group.

In addition, she is the host and editor of XBRLSpy.com and a half dozen other drupal-based sites that allow her to pontificate on her interests ranging from geocaching, her pugs, and the Pacific Northwest she calls home.

Jan Dubois

Senior Perl Developer

Jan is a senior Perl developer and the technical lead for all ActiveState Perl products.

He is an active member of the core Perl development team where his primary focus is the Windows platform. He also leads the libwin32 Perl project, a collection of Windows Perl modules. Jan is the primary author of the Win32 and Win32::OLE Perl extensions and also maintains various other Perl modules. Over the years, he has contributed to "The Perl Journal" and "PerlMonth" and has spoken on Perl at industry conferences, including OSCON.

Before joining the ActiveState team, Jan created innovative solutions for customers in the German banking and insurance industry. He has a Masters Degree in Physics (Diplom-Physiker) from the University of Hamburg.

Andreas Kupries

Senior Tcl Developer

Andreas is a senior Tcl developer at ActiveState where he continually enhances the ActiveTcl distribution and works on the Tcl Dev Kit component of ASPN Tcl. He's a member of the Tcl Core Team and is the Tcllib release manager. Andreas is also the primary author of more than 25 Tcl modules and extensions, including Trf and Memchan.

As a Tcl expert, Andreas has presented on the topic at international conferences and has published conference papers on niche Tcl topics including "Reflected and Transformed Channels", "Tools for a new generation of Tcl package documentation" and "Experiences with Modularizing the Tcl Core for Better Portability". Andreas works closely with ActiveState customers including Boeing and Cisco to ensure Tcl adds value to their software development projects.

Prior to ActiveState, Andreas developed software for Ingenieurbuero Kisters and Ascom Deutschland GmbH in Germany. He has a Master in Computer Science (Diplom-Informatiker) from the RWTH Aachen.

Todd Whiteman

Komodo Development Lead

Todd Whiteman is the Development Lead for Komodo IDE. He works adeptly with Mozilla, Python and JavaScript to ensure that Komodo IDE is the IDE of choice for development teams. Todd has been working on Komodo IDE for nearly 5 years, adding components such as the Vi Key Bindings, Distributed Source Code Control, 64-bit Linux builds as well as Remote SSH support into Komodo IDE.

Before joining ActiveState he worked as a software engineer for MDSI in Canada and Schlumberger in Australia.