Mike Shaver
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Mike Shaver (born in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada, on February 17, 1977) is a software developer who is known for his work on several open source projects. He has been involved in the development of many of the technologies that enable interactive web pages, such as the JavaScript language.
Shaver attended high school at Lisgar Collegiate Institute in Ottawa, where he began working with Ingenia Communications Corporation, an Ottawa-area computer consultancy that later dissolved. His efforts saw him rise from a summer student who worked as a system administrator and software developer to chief systems architect and eventually CTO. Shaver eventually left to work at Netscape Communications and later zerøknowledge, Cluster File Systems, and the Oracle Corporation. Beginning as a visiting developer, he quickly rose through the ranks and eventually gained Internet fame by becoming a founding member of the Mozilla Organization in 1998.
He currently serves as the Technology Strategist for the Mozilla Corporation where he helps determine what projects Mozilla should support.
[edit] External links
- Mike Shaver's Weblog, noise from signal
- Shaverman webcomic, (pg1 | pg2)
