Easy Digital Downloads is a community project with more than 108 contributors. Along with the many members of the greater WordPress community that contribute to the project, Easy Digital Downloads has several core team members, and also multiple support staff.
Pippin Williamson – Lead Developer
Pippin originally started Easy Digital Downloads back one fine day in April 2012. He’s the Lead Support Technician and makes sure all the Core Developers have enough coffee (excluding Chris)!
Pippin’s specialities includes remembering every single Easy Digital Downloads function off the top of his head and (no joke) he’s solved a support request within 30 seconds. We all just stared in awe. You can connect with Pippin on Twitter and view his plethora of knowledge on Pippin’s Plugins.
Core Developers and Senior Support Technicians
Sean Davis
Sean has been an EDD user since early 2013. Started off as a regular user looking for a way to distribute his WordPress themes, it wasn’t long before he started transitioning from user to contributing developer.
As a WordPress theme developer, Sean took an interest in building new themes that focused on integration with Easy Digital Downloads. Before we knew it, he had become an active part of the community.
After originally joining the team as a part-time Support Technician, Sean is now the full-time Support Manager and Theme Developer.
Chris Klosowski
Chris started out as an EDD user to distribute his own WordPress Plugins, but quickly moved to contributing to Core Development.
Prior to joining the team as a Co-Lead Developer, Chris spent 4.5 years as developer at GoDaddy where he had a wide range of jobs including Support, Enterprise Scale WordPress environments, C#, .Net, Javascript, and Node.JS finishing his tenure as part of the Managed WordPress development team. During this time Chris continued to contribute to EDD in his free time as a WordPress community Member.
He’s a WordCamp speaker and volunteer and participates in his local WordPress Meetups, so if you are in the East Valley of Phoenix, stop by the Chandler Meetup and say “Hi”.
Along with Easy Digital Downloads, Chris is the developer of the Pushover Notifications for WordPress Suite of plugins as well as Post Promoter Pro, the most effective way to promote your WordPress content.
Chris Christoff
Firstly, yes, Chris does actually look like that. With the amount of Mountain Dew he consumes and lack of sleep he has, we’re yet to establish whether he’s a robot! We’ve seen a commit from him at 3am in the morning that’s how much he loves Easy Digital Downloads.
Chris is a Core Developer committing code every so often with the regular dash of correcting Pippin’s spelling! He also helps out on the Support Forums.
Chris’ specialities include drinking a 2L bottle of Mountain Dew in under 2 minutes and having an eagle’s eye for spelling.
Andrew Munro
Andrew joined the Easy Digital Downloads Core Development crew after having fallen in love with the plugin in late 2012, and has been inspired by its well-organised and extensible nature.
Despite being known around the WordPress community as Sumobi, Andrew is not actually a sumo, however he can be found smashing through support tickets on the forums.
Between rounds he spends his time building add-ons and themes; his extreme productivity fueled by numerous cups of hot caffeinated beverages and large servings of Groove Salad.
Daniel Griffiths
Dan has been working with Easy Digital Downloads since late 2012, but only joined the Core Development team after the 1.5 release in March 2013. He is an obsessive developer with a passion for WordPress and spends a significant amount of time working with or developing for it.
Outside of his work with Easy Digital Downloads, he is the founder and lead developer for Redux Framework, an extensible options framework for WordPress theme and plugin developers.
Dan’s specialties include tinkering with various APIs and perpetually harassing Chris about his love of Mountain Dew.
Sunny Ratilal
Sunny Ratilal has been a Core Developer of the project since the latter half of July 2012. It’s been a real journey for him since he started contributing at the age of 15! He’s taken on some real challenges at Easy Digital Downloads and helps out in the Support Forums.
He’s also the Lead Designer so makes sure every pixel of Easy Digital Downloads is perfect!
Sunny’s specialities include having the ability to laugh at Chris’ jokes because (apparently) they’re amazing.
Topher DeRosia
Topher began his web development career by learning every HTML tag in
one afternoon in 1994. PHP/MySQL entered the picture in 1999, and then
he began a full time freelance career with WordPress in 2010. After
spinning up a startup, becoming a
super hero at XWP, and rolling out HeroPress,
he decided he wanted to shift into more of an educational role in the
WordPress community. Now he writes docs and speaks at any conference
still willing to have him.
Topher has a wonderful family that supports him in their adventures, you
may see them at various WordCamps.
At various times in the past Topher has been a pilot, aircraft mechanic,
butcher, librarian, musician, and mountain climber.
Topher’s specialty is knowing a ridiculous amount of utterly worthless
trivia.
John Parris
John has been an EDD user since 2013, and he started developing custom extensions and integrations for it at the beginning of 2014. He joined the EDD crew part-time at the end of 2014 and is now working full-time in customer support, software testing, and is a contributing developer.
Prior to entering the WordPress world, John spent 20 years in various network administration and IT management roles.
In his spare time he enjoys hanging out with his wife, walking in the woods, and enjoying a nice cold-brewed coffee.
