Maciej Stachowiak
Maciej Stachowiak is a Polish American software developer currently employed by Apple Inc. where he is a leader of the development team responsible for the Safari web browser and WebKit Framework. A longtime proponent of Open Source, Stachowiak was involved with the SCWM, GNOME and Nautilus projects for Linux before joining Apple. He is actively involved the development of web standards, and is a cochair of the World Wide Web Consortiums HTMLworking group and a member of the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group steering committee.
Maciej Stachowiak was born in Koszalin, Poland to Anna and Grzegorz Stachowiak, both of whom were educated as engineers in Poland. When martial law was declared in Poland, Maciejs father Grzegorz and other members of the Solidarity movement were arrested and incarcerated on December 13, 1981. After Grzegorz was released in November 1982, Stachowiaks family fled Poland and entered the United States seeking political asylum. They were granted American citizenship a short time later. Maciejs younger sister, Agnieszka Stachowiak, attended MIT for her undergraduate and Ph.D., and is currently a faculty member at MIT. The pseudonym, othermaciej was acquired when Apples WebKit team decided to use freenode as the home for the webkit irc channel, and Maciej Cegowski was already using the irc nick maciej.
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