Johan Janssens

Web Application Architect, Director of Nooku and one of the Joomla! Founders. Johan has a wealth of experience working in open source communities. At Joomla! he was Project Manager for 2 years and held a position on the Board of Directors of Open Source Matters, Inc.
Johan is the principal architect of the Joomla! Framework and held the role of Lead Developer during the development of Joomla! 1.5. Today, Johan has made nearly 3,500 commits helping to create Joomla! v 1.5, a refactored MVC application architecture. He is hopeful and confident that with Joomla!'s strong and growing community, Joomla! will continue to help more and more people all over the world connect with others.

Initially, Johan planned a career in game development. But, he discovered open source and realized
working with free software was something he wanted to do. Johan has invested many years contributing
to the open source community. He joined Mambo in April 2004, participating as a developer and core
team member, and moved with the entire core team to help found Joomla!.

Currently, Johan is working on Nooku , a multilingual extension for Joomla! 1.5, and Nooku Framework ,
a rapid Joomla extension development framework for PHP 5.2.