John Dunham CEO

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John Dunham enjoys turning great ideas into great companies. With his experience in Marketing, Sales, International, Business Development, Finance, and Operations, Dunham is able to create a value-based foundation and focused idea that allows for a functionally-balanced and achievable strategy to be built. Prior to Sauce Labs, John cofounded Caw Networks Inc, where he also served as a board member. Before negotiating and managing the sale of the company, John led Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Business Development. He raised $25M in venture, private and partner investment including Series B October 2001 at a 100% premium over Series A. John has also held previous and senior leadership positions at iChat, Auspex, and Sun Microsystems.

Favorite Cooking Story: I successfully salvaged a tasty meal from the spectacle of three foot flames billowing out of a gas grill from a rack of lamb gone awry.

Favorite Sauce: John's own 10-point marinade used for steaks and lamb - so good, guests always beg for the recipe!

Adam Christian VP of Development

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At the Open Source Applications Foundation in 2007 Adam dove head first into the challenge of cross browser JS and DOM hacks by co-creating the Windmill Testing Framework. Since then he contributed to the web and test automation effort at Rearden Commerce, Mozilla and Slide Inc.

Hailing from the Pacific Northwest Adam grew up spending much of of his time hiking in the national parks and boating on the waterways there. But he doesn't miss the weather.

Favorite Cooking Story: One of my early attempts at preparing frozen breakfast for myself required some quick thinking. Smelling the burning of sugar and plastic, I looked over to discover the pop-tart laden toaster fully in flames. I unplugged it from the wall and used the cord to hurl the toaster through the door into the back yard. I'm still living in fear of rogue toasters.

Favorite Sauce: I have no choice here but to say Hidden Valley Ranch, it just works -- on anything.

Steve Hazel VP of Product

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Steven Hazel has been working in startups since Britney Spears first appeared on the pop charts. Before co-founding Sauce Labs, Steve created codepad.org, an online compiler and simple collaboration tool. Previously, he served as Director of Engineering at BitTorrent, Inc, and held senior development roles at Grouper Networks (acquired by Sony Pictures in 2006), FolderShare (acquired by Microsoft in 2005), and Audiogalaxy.

Despite having a home and an office, Steve lives and works primarily in a small number of cafes in San Francisco.

Favorite Cooking Story: A college roommate once convinced me to try putting bananas in a curry. Pro tip: don't put bananas in curry.

Favorite Sauce: Steve grew up in Austin, Texas, and is sure he'll never get tired of salsa.

Jason Huggins CTO

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Jason Huggins co-founded Sauce Labs and currently leads product direction. Prior to Sauce Labs, Jason was a Test Engineer at Google where he supported the grid-scale "Selenium Farm" for testing Google applications such as Gmail and Google Docs. Jason's experience also includes time at ThoughtWorks in Chicago as a software developer. While at ThoughtWorks, Jason created the Selenium testing framework out of the need to cross-browser test a new in-house time and expense system.

When not programming in Python or JavaScript, Jason enjoys hacking on Arduino-based electronics projects. Jason has spent time in New York City, LA, and the Bay Area, but Chicago is his kind of town.

Favorite Cooking Story: I can't wait for the day I figure out how to make my own croissants from scratch. Until then, I'm doodling plans for building a 'Mr. Croissant' kitchen complement to Mr. Coffee.

Favorite Sauce: Iams Savory Sauce. When dogfooding your applications, don't forget the sauce!

Bill Kohrs Head of Finance & Administration

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Bill Kohrs worked at IBM from 1978 to 1990 in a variety of sales management positions, followed by 4 years opening up IBM China in Beijing China. He was Vice President of Oracle Latin America from 1990 to 1995, Vice President of Services at Memco Software from 1998-1999, and Vice President of Services and Operations at Getthere.com from 1999 to 2001. Bill worked on several large non-profit building projects from 2002 to 2005 before becoming Vice President of Finance and Administration at Climos, Inc from 2005 to 2009. He joined Sauce Labs in June 2009 and handles all finance and administration responsibilities.

Favorite Cooking Story: Truly ungifted when it comes to cooking, a roommate once handed me a pan of lamb chops and told me to "put it on the barbecue." He returned 15 minutes later to find that I had put the lamb, still in the pan, on the barbecue. Thus was born my culinary masterpiece known to this day as "Pan 'o Lamb."

Favorite Sauce: Wasabi, until my eyes water, followed closely by Worcestershire.

Ashley Wilson Director of Marketing

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Ashley crafts community and marketing at Sauce. With a particular interest in bringing folks together to connect and share ideas, she also organizes many community events, including the Mobile Testing Summit, the annual Selenium Conference, as well as the Continuous Delivery and Selenium Meetup Groups in San Francisco.

Prior to joining Sauce and the tech world, she was grooming herself for the newspaper business, majoring in journalism at Indiana University and working for various newspapers and magazines. A native of Atlanta, Ashley moved to San Francisco on a whim after what was supposed to be just a 3-day vacation. It was the best thing she could have ever done.

Favorite Cooking Story: When I was 14, I was tasked with making the pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving. After dinner, I proudly served it to my family and was told to take the first bite. Moments later, I realized with horror I had forgotten a key ingredient - SUGAR! I will never forget the year we went without pumpkin pie.

Favorite Sauce: Ginger soy dipping sauce. I could drink it.

Jeremy Avnet Sr. Director of Backend Development

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A system administrator for almost a decade, in 2008 Jeremy switched to coding full-time when he fell for Python. His academic background is in complex adaptive systems and he attended the Santa Fe Institute's complex systems summer school in Qingdao, China. Jeremy was a founder of Mosuki.com and was the Senior System Administrator at BitTorrent, Inc.

Jeremy is just wild about asian teas.

Favorite Cooking Story: In college, my chemist girlfriend and I wanted to make chai. In order to maximize flavor she flipped the lid of the pot and put ice in it. This created a janky reflux apparatus in which vaporized essential oils would condense on the lid and fall back into the mix. I've been using this technique ever since.

Favorite Sauce: Jeremy's robust gravy made from a mushroom stock reduction and ghee roux. This is made from the stock remaining after cooking a seitan "roast". Not only is it great use the left-over stock, it's one of the best gravies I've had.

Jason Carr Software Developer

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Jason got into computers when he was 6, starting with DOS and BASIC, and eventually developing an interest in the web and web applications. Like many others with a degree in philosophy, Jason was forced to get a 'real' job and has been involved in nearly every part of the software development lifecycle. At Sauce, Jason is involved in all things related to mobile testing.

Before joining Sauce, Jason spent his time writing automated tests and hacking on Python projects. In his free time, Jason is an avid board gamer, both designing and playtesting board games.

Favorite Cooking Story: I once spent an entire day preparing a 5 course meal for 7 of my friends. Unfortunately I attempted to do this in a fraternity house kitchen, which was conveniently devoid of most of the kitchen utensils, pots, pans, and ingredients necessary to cook a delicious meal. Needless to say, I made no less than eleven trips to walmart that day.

Favorite Sauce: Hot fudge, preferably on french vanilla ice cream.

Nicole Foley Creative Lead

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After deciding academia was not for her, Nicole pursued graphic design and filmmaking to communicate messaging effectively through compelling imagery. Her work has included web, print, video…and opening a yoga studio. Running a small business honed Nicole’s marketing skills, which grew the business and its community. She was happy to own it. And even happier to sell it!

Nicole is Sauce's Creative Lead, and she’s excited to apply her varied experiences and interests to Sauce's brand development. Dance class, film festivals, SF culture and way too many other things keep her occupied and having fun.

Favorite Cooking Story: I’m on an endless quest to make ayurvedic kitchari taste awesome. Suggestions welcome.

Favorite Sauce: Papalote’s hot sauce is one of the reasons I moved to SF.

Alex Glowaski Customer Success Engineer

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Alex was raised on DOS games and FIRST Robotics, studied languages at the University of Michigan, and has come full-circle to a career in tech support. On a daily basis, she gets to soak up knowledge, fix tough problems, and make people happy.

Alex's natural environment is among startups and maker collectives. She previously directed Ann Arbor's hackerspace, All Hands Active, and she relaxes by building robots.

Favorite Cooking Story: When I was very small, I was given a book about minerals, complete with awesome rock samples. The book stated, "You shake a mineral over your food to make it taste better." So, I brought a piece of pyrite to the dinner table and waved it over my spaghetti. It took me years to realize that they meant shaking salt *onto* your food.

Favorite Sauce: Hollandaise. Eggs Florentine is pure ambrosia.

Bernard Kobos Software Developer

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Bernard started creating his first programs during primary school inspired by older brothers' IT class home assignments. During years he developed bigger and smaller applications in various programming languages both as a professional assignments and personal pet projects. During his academic years he was always in pursuit of ambitious cutting edge work and got especially interested in the web and mobile technologies as their potential started to reveal.

He started his professional career by winning a programming competition organized by vehicle tracking company at the collage. He was doing most of his work as a freelancer. He was lead developer on some startups that turned out to be a huge success in Poland. He is also front-end creator of 'virtual assessment center' system for one of the biggest Polish telecom companies. Not being satisfied with innovativeness of the tasks, he started to search work beyond the borders of his home country which could better utilize his skill set.

His higher level goal is to produce efficient solutions to problems (both engineering and business) that really matter and follow good engineering practices at the same time to provide a solid codebase.

Favorite Cooking Story: One time I got full plate of excellent soup. While I was reaching to it with my spoon, in a blink of an eye, the dog jumped on the table with his front legs, took a gulp and disappeared in the same second... It turns out that you have to really watch out when you have adolescent dog near you. Really.

Favorite Sauce: My all time favorite is spaghetti tomato sauce which is a bit surprising as I generally prefer dishes that include meat. Want exact recipe? Just mail me, you'll gonna love it!

Raechel Lambert Office Manager

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Raechel is Sauce’s Office Manager and also assists with finances and admin. She loves enabling the Saucers to do what they do best (something about writing code?) by keeping the office running smoothly and planning fun team outings.

Before Sauce, she studied finance and economics in Boston and started her career in a place that was as corporate as it gets. Once she realized her passion was innovation, she chased it all the way to San Francisco (even though she'd never even visited). After a short stint as a bartender in SF’s busiest tourist trap, she’ll do anything to help you out - except make you a blended strawberry daiquiri.

Favorite Cooking Story: I once cooked for a wedding with a guest list of 250. The whole thing went off without a hitch until it was time to strain the pasta from the huge pots. I hadn’t thought about what it would be like to pour 10 gallons of boiling water into the sink.

Favorite Sauce: Chimichurri. Especially on grilled steak.

Jonathan Lipps Sr. Software Developer

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Jonathan taught himself programming at a young age, beginning with BASIC and Pascal, and always believed he would become a computer scientist, but in college decided to refactor his approach to life and add an abstraction layer in the form of two degrees in Philosophy. Philosophy being useless for paying rent, Jonathan worked as a software developer for the next 5 years for various startups.

Jonathan then did a degree in Linguistics at Oxford. On the way to subsequent graduate study, the sticky tentacles of web development (read: the desire to build something) drew Jonathan back to San Francisco. Jonathan eventually discovered Sauce Labs and was attracted, given his painful experiences with local Selenium testing, to the obvious value of cloud-based integration tests.

Favorite Cooking Story: I love cooking, baking, and brewing beer, and usually pride myself on the faithfulness of my culinary products to their Platonic forms. Occasionally things don't go so well. One recent brewing expedition (an American Pale Ale) appeared to be proceeding normally until we left the fermenter alone in the apartment for a few days. We came back to fully half of the beer splattered over the walls and floor. Apparently the airlock had gotten clogged and the yeast had built up enough pressure to expel 2.5 gallons of liquid all over the house. Never underestimate a barrel of eukaryotes!

Favorite Sauce: The Indonesian Peanut Sauce from this awesome recipe.

Jack Moxon Account Executive

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Jack does business development at Sauce. Prior to joining he was a consultant at Harbor Research where he found time to learn Python and Django at night and on weekends. In 2009, he helped launch TheUrbanFarmers.org - a non-profit that facilitiates community agriculture in the Bay Area. He still uses his programming chops to help build internal tools for them when time permits.

Jack studied economics and political science at UCLA. He plays music, rides his bicycle, and resides in the Mission District of San Francisco.

Favorite Cooking Story: I lived in Nepal for a few months and there were persistent water shortages. One night our faucet went dry while cooking a meal. I forgot to turn the faucet off and kept cooking my lentils. The water returned overnight and I woke up with 3 feet of water in my kitchen!

Favorite Sauce: Got to be BBQ.

Lauren Nguyen Marketing Communications
Manager

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Lauren brings her passion for user experience, psychology, and data to marketing at Sauce. She strives to use her capacities for high concept and high touch together to help spread the word about Sauce Labs. With past experience in marketing, social media, and user experience research at startups, Lauren has found that the startup world is a great place to fuel her addiction to learning.

When she isn't at work fighting for the users, you can find Lauren DJ-ing, dancing to techno, nourishing her infatuation with clothing, making jewelry, recording her dreams, or pursuing one of her other hundred hobbies.

Favorite Cooking Story: I love making pad see ew, but had trouble finding the right rice noodles at grocery stores nearby, so on a hot tip I tried to get some noodles from a noodle factory nearby. I managed to find the place, but they don't have a store front since they mostly sell to wholesalers. I rang the doorbell and found myself in basically a storage room, where I asked a man who barely spoke English for a pound of noodles. They were clearly thrown for a loop; they never had people showing up there wanting to buy noodles, and they weren't even sure what to charge me, but I walked out of there with a plastic bag full of noodles, and I've been showing up there ever since to buy my noodles.

Favorite Sauce: Hoisin sauce! It's a bit sweet and a bit savory, and accompanies some of my favorite dishes..

Mathieu Sabourin Software Developer

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Half French, half English, Mathieu (pronounced /ma.tjø/ or plain old Mathew) is fresh out of school with a masters in Computer Engineering.

Past Mathieu never really expected that he would end up having anything to do with computers. But now that he is here, he is having all the fun in the world. While not studying, Mathieu has been experimenting with all kinds of programming languages. He is a big fan of OSS and while he does not frown at OSX nothing can replace his love for Linux.

Favorite Cooking Story: Being half French, half English, Mathieu's cooking skills are, like Schrödinger's cat, in a state of limbo. And should probably stay that way. As far as cooking stories go, once while camping a giant pot of pasta was made. The crowd was famished and was eagerly awaiting said pasta. Alas the pot was tipped and the pasta strewn across the ground. The pasta was eaten thus, mixed with the local herbs (aka grass). Some liberty taken with geography, one could consider the grass to be herb de provence. And that is how the day was saved.

Favorite Sauce: HP Sauce, that is all.

Santiago Suarez Ordoñez
Lead Backend Developer

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Santiago or "Santi" comes from an old style software development shop, where he started as a manual tester and led the company towards test automation in the search for productivity. At first, Santi was a Mercury QTP practitioner, but his Open Source instincts drove him towards Selenium. Santi set up the functional automation environment and first tests for eduCommons (OpenCourseWare Consortium, MIT) and has worked on several Python development projects. Santi handled some writing and the entire infrastructure of the Selenium 1.0 official documentation and remains a project contributor.

Santi is originally from Rosario, Argentina and loves driving motorcycles, windsurfing, sailing and enjoying nature. His most recent interests include rock climbing.

Favorite Cooking Story: One day on a friend's boat, we had to improvise to strain the spaghetti. We sacrificed one of the boat window screens which turned out to not be the best decision. We ended up with dirty spaghetti for dinner and mosquitoes inside the boat the whole night.

Favorite Sauce: Santi's first choice when it's time to eat: Bolognese.

Sebastian Tiedtke Sr. Software Developer

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Born and raised at the foot of the Alps just outside of Munich in Germany, Sebastian spent his youth listening to David Hasselhoff songs. He wore Lederhosen and eagerly anticipated the day he could legally drink his first stein of beer.

When daddy put the first computer on his desk in the mid 90s, Sebastian quickly went on to figure out BASIC, Pascal and C/C++. Rainy afternoons were filled with building websites, countless iterations of Linux kernel makefile tweaks and compiler runs.

Before joining Sauce, Sebastian finished a degree in Software Development (in Munich), he spent almost a decade building customer information systems making transit information more accessible for people living in large metropolitan areas worldwide. His job commitment and passions for technology eventually made him move to San Francisco in 2009.

When Sebastian is not busy improving the Sauce experience he likes to take joyrides on his 1961 vespa. He's a natural optimist in life and always sees the stein half full.

Favorite Cooking Story: We forgot to bring firestarters for the BBQ grill on a vacation trip to Ireland, so I decided to use margarine instead. While I explained how the Mont Blanc tunnel fire got triggered (by a cargo truck stocked with margarine) the grease in the grill hit its flash point and the whole thing blew up in a ginormous fireball. From this day on, whenever I touch the margarine at breakfast, people run and seek shelter.

Favorite Sauce: Everything that goes well with sauerkraut, obviously.