I joined Mozilla as a staff contributor three years ago working on API partnerships, early Firefox Operating System content partnerships for our phones and identity management solutions for the web. I found Mozilla to be one of the most compelling work environments of my career. Beyond the prestige of working on a product that reaches 1 in 5 Internet users globally, I found the passion and inspiration of our community and coworkers infectious. A huge number of people who work on Firefox products and tools are volunteers. It’s amazing to be surrounded by people who work 100% based on the passion they have for their contribution to the web and its benefits to the global community. At the FISL 2013 conference in Brazil, I had my first experience working with the Mozilla Representatives and community volunteers. I bumped into an engineer, André Natal , who wanted to create a speech-to-text engine for Firefox operating system. (This enables tools l...
Musings on web development, apps and the future of the internet.