The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online (original) (raw)
We are an international team who believes everyone should have private access to the uncensored web.
Aaron Johnson
IRC: ohmygodel
NRL researcher in applied cryptography with an interest in Tor's security and privacy.
Al Smith
they
IRC: alsmith
Works on fundraising & communications.
Alexander Færøy
he
IRC: ahf
Works on core Tor development.
Alison Macrina
she
Leads the Library Freedom Project
Alissa Cooper
Alissa Cooper is on the board of directors for the Tor Project.
Allen Gunn
IRC: gunner
Executive Director of Aspiration, where he works with NGOs, activists, and human rights groups. Meeting facilitator and member of Tor's Community Council.
anarcat
he
IRC: anarcat
Sysadmin team lead and chief documentation apologist.
Andreas Lehner
IRC: andreas
Works at the intersection of security, privacy, data integrity and anonymity both in politics and technology.
anonym
he/him
IRC: anonym
Tails developer
Antonela Debiasi
she
IRC: antonela
Former UX team lead & designer.
Arlo Breault
IRC: arlolra
Developer for Snowflake, Tor Messenger, and Check.
Armin Huremagic
he
IRC: agix
Security researcher and contributes to Tor's anti-censorship team.
Arthur Edelstein
IRC: arthuredelstein
Works on Tor Browser.
Arturo
IRC: elshrek
Individual Giving Manager. Layer by layer, I make sure supporters are happy and engaged.
Arturo Filastò
IRC: hellais
Project leader for OONI, has helped with tor2web, wrote Atlas which later became Relay Search, and helps improve security.
Bea Rizental
she/her
IRC: brizental
Software Engineer on the Applications Team working with quality assurance.
Bekeela Davila
she
IRC: bdavila
Grants Manager.
Bella
She/her
IRC: bellatchau
Project Manager at Tor, exploring the magical intersections of the Apps, Community, and UX teams.
bokonon
he/him
IRC: bokonon
part of the Fundraising team
boyska
he
IRC: boyska
Tails developer
Cecylia
she
IRC: cohosh
Developer on the anti-censorship team. Works on pluggable transport development and integration, and BridgeDB.
Christian Kaufmann
Christian is on the board of directors for the Tor Project. He has over 20 years of experience in the internet environment as an architect, manager and board member in various roles.
Claire Hurst
she/they
IRC: clairehurst
Android developer on the Applications team working on Tor Browser for Android
Damian Johnson
he
IRC: atagar
Author of the Stem python controller library and Nyx relay monitor.
Dan Ballard
he
IRC: dan_b
Developer on the Applications team working on Tor Browser and Cwtch.im.
David Goulet
IRC: dgoulet
Tor development. Member of the Network Team.
Dees Chinniah
Desigan Chinniah, aka Dees or cyberdees is on the board of directors for the Tor Project. He is a creative technologist. Dees is a stalwart of the web and has had check-ins at various dot-coms most notably a decade at Mozilla, the makers of Firefox. He cares deeply about a healthier internet, open-source and community.
Dennis Jackson
he
IRC: dennis_jackson
Security & Performance Researcher
donuts
he
IRC: donuts
UX & Design Team lead, product manager and lorem ipsum officianado.
emmapeel
she
IRC: emmapeel
emmapeel coordinates the localization (translations) of the different Tor software.
Erin Wyatt
she
IRC: ewyatt
Director of People & Office Operations and devoted dog mom.
Esra'a Al Shafei
Esra'a is on the board of directors for the Tor Project. She is a Bahraini human rights activist and founder and director of Majal.org, a network of digital platforms that amplify under-reported and marginalized voices in the Middle East and North Africa.
Gaba
she/her/they
IRC: gaba
Project Manager, facilitator and in a previous life a software engineer.
Gabi
she
IRC: gabi
Member of the Network Team, working on Arti.
Gabriella Coleman
IRC: biella
Anthropologist and Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University.
Georg Koppen
IRC: GeKo
Currently lead of the Network Health team.
George
IRC: gman999
(Legacy) Tor *BSD Diversity Project member, Serge bridge directory authority maintainer, long-time relay operator and a wide variety of other contributions.
George Kadianakis
IRC: asn
Onion services. Security analysis. Used to obfsproxy. Follower of the onion.
Giorgio Maone
he
IRC: ma1
Creator of NoScript, security breaker & builder, digital rights advocate & secular humanist activist, casting spells on the Tor Browser within the Applications Development Team.
groente
IRC: groente
Part of the sysadmin team and one of the release managers for Tails.
Gustavo Gus
he/him
IRC: ggus
Works as Community Team Lead. Trainer, relay operator and Tor advocate.
HackerNCoder
IRC: hackerncoder
Works on the websites. Helps people understand and use Tor and related software.
Hans-Christoph Steiner
IRC: _hc
Works on Orbot, NetCipher, and integrating Tor everywhere possible, especiall in Debian and Android. Also deeply mixed into Guardian Project.
Iain Learmonth
he
IRC: irl
Director at SR2 Communications. Works on network health and anti-censorship projects.
Ian Jackson
they?or=he
IRC: Diziet
Member of the Network Team, working on Arti.
intrigeri
he
IRC: intrigeri
Team Lead of the Tails Team at Tor Project.
isabela
IRC: isabela
Executive Director of the Tor Project.
Jacobo Nájera
IRC: nvjacobo
Technologist and researcher in human rights. Contributes to Tor's anti-censorship team and growth of the network in Latin America
Jens Kubieziel
IRC: qbi
Volunteer that helped translate the website, is part of TorServers.net, and Tor's sysadmin team.
Jérôme Charaoui
he
IRC: lavamind
Member of the sysadmin team.
Jim Newsome
he
IRC: jnewsome
Works on Shadow.
juga
they
IRC: juga
Senior software enginner on the Network Health team.
Julien Voisin
he
IRC: jvoisin
Sysadmin for Nos Oignons and maintainer of mat2.
Julius Mittenzwei
IRC: julius
Julius Mittenzwei is on the board of directors for the Tor Project. Julius is a lawyer and internet activist with 19 years of leadership experience as an Executive Director and entrepreneur in the publishing industry.
Jurre van Bergen
he
IRC: drwhax
Jurre helps hunt bad relays and is part of the Dutch relay foundation 'Hart voor Internetvrijheid'.
Kat
she
IRC: kat5
Volunteer on the Community Team. Helps with t-shirts for relay operators and other odds and ends.
Kendra Albert
they
Kendra Albert (they/them), is on the board of directors for the Tor Project. They are a U.S.-based public interest technology lawyer with a special interest in computer security and in protecting marginalized speakers and users.
Kushal Das
he
IRC: kushal
Manages RPM packages, Python core developer. Public Interest Technologist at SUNET. Member of the community team, privacy advocate focusing on new users.
lelutin
he
IRC: LeLutin
Part of the sysadmin team.
Linus Nordberg
he
IRC: ln5
Software developer, sysadmin and co-founder of the Swedish Torservers.net partner :DFRI. Member of the sysadmin team. Runs one of the directory authorities.
Matt Traudt
IRC: pastly
Matt implemented the KIST scheduler into Tor. He helps safely measure Tor and says helpful things on IRC.
mattlav
he
IRC: mattlav
Tor Project's Financial Coordinator, spreadsheet wrangler, bean counter, T-shirt supervisor, ace spam blaster, livestream director, and music librarian.
meejah
IRC: meejah
Author of txtorcon, carml and other Tor Python tools including some for bad-relay hunting.
meskio
he
IRC: meskio
Developer on the anti-censorship team.
Micah Anderson
they?or=he
IRC: micah
Director of Engineering. Runs one of the directory authorities.
Morgan
they/them
IRC: morganava
Tor Project applications team lead
Narrira Lemos
she
IRC: nah
User Researcher, privacy & security confabulator.
Nathan Freitas
IRC: n8fr8
Founder of the Guardian Project. Orbot lead developer and contributor to Orfox, Onion Browser and NetCipher SDK. Director of Technology at Tibet Action Institute.
Nick Mathewson
he
IRC: nickm
One of the three original designers of Tor - does a lot of the ongoing design work, and coordinates and leads ongoing development.
Nico Bucaro
they?or=she
IRC: nicob
Brand Designer for the Tor Project.
Nicolas Vigier
he
IRC: boklm
Works on Tor Browser.
Nighat Dad
IRC: nighat
Nighat is on the board of directors for the Tor Project.
Paul Syverson
IRC: syverson
NRL researcher on most things Tor. Inventor of onion routing, and one of the three original designers of Tor.
Pavel Zoneff
he
IRC: gazebook
Director, Strategic Communications
Peter Palfrader
IRC: weasel
Manages the Debian packages, runs one of the directory authorities, and generally helps out a lot.
Philipp Winter
IRC: phw
Security and privacy researcher.
Pier Angelo Vendrame
he
IRC: pierov
Works on Tor Browser.
Ramy Raoof
IRC: ramy
Ramy Raoof is a digital security mentor and privacy technologist. He has over a decade of experience investigating surveillance patterns, digital threats against civil society and developing safety protocols. He advocates for open-source as a crucial path towards healthier communities and social justice.
Rasmus Dahlberg
he
IRC: rgdd
PhD student and software engineer that works ontransparent, verifiable, and privacy-preserving systems.
Roger Dingledine
he
IRC: arma
Original developer of Tor along with Nick and Paul. Leading privacy researcher, coordinating developers and researchers.
sajolida
he
IRC: sajolida
Technical writing, UX, and fundraising for Tails.
sanketh
he?or=they
IRC: sanketh
Contributes to the Tor Browser.
Sarah Gran
Sarah is on the Board of Directors for the Tor Project. She is also VP of the Brand & Donor Development team at ISRG, the nonprofit behind Let's Encrypt, Prossimo, and Divvi Up.
Sarthik Gupta
he/him
IRC: sarthikg
Works on Tor Weather. Started as a GSoC Contributor.
Sebastian Hahn
IRC: sebastian
Helps people around the world use and understand Tor better. Generally helps everything run smoothly. Runs one of the directory authorities.
Silvia Puglisi
IRC: hiro
Hiro works on metrics and network health
Silvio Rhatto
he
IRC: rhatto
Onion Services Site Reliability Engineer.
Sina Rabbani
IRC: inf0
Directory authority operator, outreach and trains human rights activists. System's Engineer at Team Cymru and co-Founder of accessnow.org.
Stefani Banerian
she
IRC: stefani
Runs one of the directory authorities, bandwidth authority, and relays.
Steven Engler
he
IRC: opara
Developer on the Shadow network simulator project.
Suphanat Chunhapanya
IRC: haxxpop
Contributes to core Tor and especially onion services.
teor
they
IRC: teor
Former Tor developer and chutney maintainer, worked on onion services, directory documents, and statistics.
thorin
he/him/his
IRC: thorin
House: Gecko ◈ Departments: Defence Against the Fingerprint Dark Arts, Tracker Charms, Linkification Alchemy ◈ Selected Works: TorZillaPrint, Arkenfox ◈ Description: "In rare moments, this elusive solitary creature will emerge, cautiously sniffing the air, to loudly squeal excitement" - Sir David Attenborough
Tobias Pulls
he
IRC: pulls
Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University, Sweden. Recovering applied crypto researcher, currently fighting neural nets.
Tom Ritter
he
IRC: tjr
Maintains Consensus Health, runs one of the bandwidth authorities, and contributes to Tor Browser.
Trinity Pointard
it?or=they
IRC: trinity-1686a
Software engineer, contributing mostly to Arti.
Vasilis
IRC: anadahz
Internet (anti)censorship researcher, lepidopterist. Organizes workshops, events and meetups.
Vinicius Zavam
he
IRC: egypcio
TorBSD Diversity Project (TDP); IPv6 Enthusiast, BSD Systems Evangelist, and Bridges/Relays Operator.
Wendy Seltzer
she
IRC: wseltzer
Techie lawyer and former Tor board member. She works on legal and policy support for private and secure communications.
Wesley Aptekar-Cassels
they
IRC: wesleyac
Developer on the Network team, working on Arti.
Yawning Angel
IRC: yawningangel
Author and maintainer of the Linux Tor Browser sandbox.
Zen Fu
he
IRC: zen-fu
Member of the sysadmin team.