Sauce Labs Sauciers

Jason Huggins, CTO

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!

John Dunham, CEO

John Dunham enjoys turning great ideas into great companies. With his executive 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 in October 2001 at a 100% premium over Series A. John has also held previous executive 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!

Steven Hazel, Chief Architect

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.

Bill Kohrs, Head of Finance and Administration

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.

Santiago Suarez Ordoñez, Sauce Ninja

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.

Jeremy Avnet, Senior Software Developer

A system administrator for almost a decade, Jeremy switched to software engineering in 2008 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. I make this from the stock remaining after cooking a seitan "roast". Not only is it great to not throw away the used stock, it's one of the best gravies I've ever had.

Adam Christian, Director of Web Development

At the Open Source Applications Foundation Adam answered the siren call of the challenge of cross browser JavaScript and DOM hacks by co-creating the Windmill Testing Framework in 2007. Since then he contributed as both senior and lead developer for web and test automation 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. Still not exactly sure why, but 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. It's been all upwards from there... for the most part.

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

Ashley Wilson, Customer Development Manager

Ashley handles just about everything non-code at Sauce (though she does know how to use Git), including sales, events, marketing, community engagement, and so forth. 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 after what was supposed to be 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.

Joe Mathes, Flying Circus

I'm a programmer.

Learning programming - like any foreign language - is better the younger you start. I got into computers when I was 10-as did almost every great programmer I know. Sadly, schools don't teach it until late high school. So I started Hack the Future to fix that by creating a regular program to introduce kids to programming, and give more of them the chance to build on that early exposure.

Favorite cooking story: I once accidentally used salsa instead of marinara sauce on spaghetti. It wasn't very good.

Favorite Sauce: Pesto. I make my own from my mom's recipe. Pesto from the store is bland because the basil isn't fresh, and usually there isn't enough garlic.

Jonathan Lipps, IPA Engineer

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

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.