Jonathan Thomas

Creator & Lead Developer

I have over 14 years of professional software development experience, and am the creator and lead developer of OpenShot Video Editor. I have worked for many years as both a software architect and senior-level developer, focusing on large, highly complex, web-based systems. I have successfully lead and managed an international team of developers and successfully delivered software to hundreds of thousands of users. In fact, over 500,000 students are now being taught OpenShot in schools each year in India, as well as many other countries. I enjoy teaching, training, and speaking about software any chance I get, and recently spoke at the largest Linux conference in the United States, SCALE 9X.

I currently reside in Texas, USA, and am available for contract work, as well as open-minded to employment opportunities. Please feel free to send me any inquiries you may have.

My programming skills include: Python, Django, C++, C, C#, VB.NET, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS, GTK+, T-SQL, and PL-SQL. My graphic design skills include: Inkscape, Gimp, Blender, and Adobe Photoshop.

Andy Finch

Senior Developer, Forum Manager

I have been working as a software developer for the last 11 years, and currently work in the Financial industry as a systems developer on high availability trading systems. I have been working on OpenShot since the early days of the project in my spare time. I find the challenge of working on a major open-source project with a widely dispersed team of contributors exciting and am proud of the progress we have all made on OpenShot.

I live in Surrey, England with my Family and currently work in the City of London.

My programming skills include: VB.NET, C#, Python, GTK+, Lua, T-SQL, PL-SQL.

Olivier Girard (i.e. Cenwen)

Contributor, Writer, French Spokesperson

I have been a Linux user for several years, but with few programming skills in the beginning. I joined this international team more than two years ago when I discovered OpenShot. In my spare time, I created the help manual for this project, manage several forums on it, wrote several articles in the French Specialist Press, wrote translations, and now I create patches and work on new features.

I am living proof that we can join and participate actively in a major open-source project without having any skills in programming. And I am proud to be in this adventure and see the progression of this project thanks to all the effort we have given to this project.

I currently reside in Auvergne, France and my current priorities are graphic design, programming, packaging, writing a book (in English and in French), and attending events.

My programming skills include : Python, GTK+ and some knowledge in C++. My graphic design skills include : Inkscape and Gimp. My Literary skills include : BTS in Management and Accounting of Enterprises, Help Manual, Blogs entries, Articles in French Specialist Press, Complete Translation of the manual and much of OpenShot. My language spoken skills include : English and French.