Jarred Nicholls

For the past decade, I have worked on large-scale projects and products in a wide array of industries - everything from speech recognition & telephony, to HTML5 & mobile [web] development, and everything in between. Along the way I have contributed to large open source projects such as Ruby on Rails, Mono, and WebKit to name a few.

I currently work for Sencha, the creators of the leading HTML5 app development frameworks for the Desktop and Mobile web - Ext JS and Sencha Touch. At Sencha I have led the development of Sencha Designer, the app builder tool that lets users prototype, build, test, and deploy complete Ext JS 4 and Sencha Touch applications in an easy-to-use visual environment. I also created the x-platform Sencha Ion runtime, powered by WebKit, that brings rich HTML5 web applications to the desktop and enables access to valuable native functionality. Sencha Designer and Sencha Animator run on the Ion platform.

As of late, I work on Sencha's Web Platform (aka the "WebKit") team that is responsible for hacking on WebKit and extending the Sencha Ion platform to bigger & better things. In my spare time I manage the Sencha SDK Tools and continue to help out the Tools (Animator/Designer) team.

I have recently become a WebKit Committer and enjoy hacking on WebCore, JavaScript engines, and the bleeding-edge HTML5 technologies.