The information below was first published in early 2018 and has not been kept up-to-date after that point. Since that point three books have been written on the history of Ethereum, and they give a fuller story than this page and the Ethereum Foundation Timeline page which I put together back in 2018.
- Out of The Ether – Matthew Leising
- The Infinite Machine – Camilo Russo
- The Cryptopians – Laura Shin
In February 2020, I learnt that the BitcoinTalk announcement of the Ethereum project was modified 8 months after the fact to write various people out of the history, which is very sad. Compare-and-contrast the original post with the current post. See also original website team page.
Help with accuracy of this public record much appreciated. I will Github it sometime.
This is a catalog of everybody who has been involved with the Ethereum Project in the phase prior to the creation of the Ethereum Foundation, or involved with the Ethereum Foundation after that legal entity existed.
Obviously the list of people who have been involved with the Ethereum Project as a whole since its inception is now an astronomically long list. That is not the focus here – only on the Ethereum Foundation (lifetime), and on people involved in its pre-historical period, whether or not they actually worked for the EF during that nascent period.
Bold names are still associated with the Ethereum Foundation.
- November 2013
- Vitalik Buterin (“vbuterin“) – Nov 2013 to present (DEVCON0) (co-Founder)
- December 2013
- Jeffrey Wilcke (“obscuren“) – Dec 2013 to Feb 2017 (DEVCON0) (co-Founder)
- Gavin Wood (“gavofyork“) – Dec 2013 to Oct 2015 (DEVCON0) (co-Founder)
- Taylor Gerring (“tgerring“) – Dec 2013 to Dec 2016
- Anthony di Iorio – Dec 2013 to Dec 2015 (co-Founder)
- Mihai Alisie – Dec 2013 to Oct 2015 (co-Founder)
- Charles Hoskinson – Dec 2013 to May 2014 (co-Founder)
- Jeremy Wood – Dec 2013 to May 2014 (executive assistant to Charles)
- Amir Chetrit – Dec 2013 to May 2014 (co-Founder)
- Jonathan Mohan – Dec 2013 to Jun 2014
- January 2014
- Joseph Lubin – Jan 2014 to May 2015 (DEVCON0) (co-Founder)
- Jason Colby – Jan 2014 to Jan 2016 (DEVCON0)
- Stephan Tual – Jan 2014 to Sep 2015 (DEVCON0)
- Anthony DOnofrio (“Texture”) – Jan 2014 to ???
- Roxana Sureanu – Jan 2014 to July 2015
- Steven Nerayoff – Jan 2014 to Dec 2014
- Mathias Grønnebæk – Jan 2014 to Oct 2014
- Matthew Wampler-Doty – Jan 2014 to Apr 2014
- February 2014
- Ian Meikle – Feb 2014 to Nov 2018 (DEVCON0)
- Aeron Buchanon – Feb 2014 to Nov 2015 (DEVCON0)
- Russell Verbeeten – Feb 2014 to Jul 2014
- Nicolas Fierro – Feb 2014 to Jan 2015
- Ryan Taylor – dates?
- Karl Gluck – dates?
- Houwu Chen – dates?
- March 2014
- Ethan Wilding – Mar 2014 to Apr 2017
- Heiko Hees – Mar 2014 to Feb 2016 (DEVCON0)
- Richard Stott – Mar 2014 to Aug 2014
- Joel Dietz – Mar 2014 (maybe) to present (but never in the EF) (DEVCON0)
- Joris Bontje – Mar 2014 to present (but never in the EF) (DEVCON0)
- Maran Hidskes – Mar 2014 to Sep 2014 (now part of Ethlab with Jeff from Jan 2016)
- Roman Mandeleil – Mar 2014 to present (but never in EF) (DEVCON0)
- April 2014
- Vlad Zamfir (“vladzamfir“) – Apr 2014 to present (DEVCON0)
- Joseph Chow (“ethers“) – April 2014 to present (but never in EF) (DEVCON0)
- Addison Cameron-Huff – dates?
- Jerry Liu – dates?
- Bin Lu – dates?
- May 2014
- Brian Fabian Crain – May 2014 to present (but never in EF) (DEVCON0)
- June 2014
- Konstantin Kudryavtsev – June 2014 to Jan 2016
- Marian Oancea – Jun 2014 to Sep 2015 (DEVCON0)
- August 2014
- George Hallam – Aug 2014 to Oct 2016 (DEVCON0)
- Alex Leverington (“subtly“) – Aug 2014 to Oct 2015 (DEVCON0)
- September 2014
- Zsolt Felföldi (“zsfelfoldi“) – Sep 2014 (maybe) to present
- Christophe Jentzsch (“CJentzsch“) – Sep 2014 to Nov 2015 (DEVCON0)
- Sarah O’Neill – Sep 2014 to Nov 2014 (designed the ETHDEV space in Berlin)
- Roland ??? – Sep 2014 to Nov 2014 (designed the ETHDEV space in Berlin)
- October 2014
- Alex van de Sande (“avsa“) – Oct 2014 to present (DEVCON0)
- Christian Reitwiessner (“chriseth“) – Oct 2014 to present (DEVCON0)
- Daniel Nagy (“nagydani“) – Oct 2014 to present (DEVCON0)
- Felix Lange (“fjl“)- Oct 2014 to present (DEVCON0)
- Viktor Tron (“zelig“)- Oct 2014 to present (DEVCON0)
- Aeron Buchanan – Oct 2014 to Nov 2015
- Marek Kotewicz (“debris“) – Oct 2014 to Dec 2015 (DEVCON0)
- Vincent G (“caktux“) – Oct 2014 to ??? (was already effectively gone when I started in Feb 2016)
- November 2014
- Yann Levreau (“yann300”) – Nov 2014 to present (DEVCON0)
- Paweł Bylica – Nov 2014 to present (DEVCON0)
- Piotrek ‘Viggith’ Janiuk – Nov 2014 to present (but never in the EF) (DEVCON0)
- Christian Vömel – Nov 2014 to ?? (DEVCON0)
- Lefteris Karapetsas – Nov 2014 to Jan 2016 (DEVCON0)
- Jutta Steiner – Nov 2014 to Oct 2015 (DEVCON0)
- Ken Kappler – Nov 2014 to Sep 2015 (DEVCON0)
- Vinay Gupta – Nov 2014 (Maybe) to ???? (DEVCON0)
- Sven Ehlert – Nov 2014 to Mar 2015 (DEVCON0)
- Konrad Feldmeier – Nov 2014 (maybe) to present (but never in the EF) (DEVCON0 intro)
- Henning Diedrich – Nov 2014 (maybe) to present (but never in the EF) (DEVCON0 intro)
- Ksenya S – Nov 2014 (maybe) to present (but never in the EF) – DEVCON0
- December 2014
- Arkadiy Paronyan – Dec 2014 to Dec 2015 (DEVCON0)
- January 2015
- Dimitry Kholkov (“winsvega“) – Jan 2015 to present
- Fabian Vogelsteller (“frozeman“) – Jan 2015 to present
- Liana Husikyan – Jan 2015 to around June 2016
- April 2015
- Péter Szilágyi (“karalabe“) – Apr 2015 to present
- Bas van Kervel (“bas-vk“) – Apr 2015 to Jul 2017
- Hai Nguyen – Apr 2015 to Jul 2015
- June 2015
- Lars Klawitter – Jun 2015 to Dec 2015
- Vadim Levitin – Jun 2015 to Jan 2016
- Wayne Hennessy-Barrett – Jun 2015 to Jan 2016
- July 2015
- Ming Chan – Jul 2015 to Jan 2018
- Tung Chan – Jul 2015 to Apr 2018
- William Mougayar – Jul 2015 to Feb 2017
- September 2015
- Stefano Bartolo – Sep 2015 to unknown?
- October 2015
- Bernd Lapp – Oct 2015 to Feb 2017
- December 2015
- Yessin Schiegg – Dec 2015 to Feb 2017
- February 2016
- Bob Summerwill – Feb 2016 to Oct 2016
- David Ben Kay – Feb 2016 to Dec 2016
- March 2016
- Greg Colvin – Mar 2016 to Oct 2017
- Thomas Greco – Mar 2016 to present?
- May 2016
- Vladislav Martynov – May 2016 to present?
- June 2016
- Everton Fraga – Jun 2016 (maybe) to present
- Hudson Jameson – Jun 2016 to present
- Jamie Pitts – Jun 2016 to present
- Nick Johnson (“Arachnid”) – June 2016 to present
- July 2016
- Laura Penrod – July 2016 to Sep 2016. Sep 2017
- September 2016
- Martin Holst Swende – Sep 2016 to present
- Yoichi Hirai – Sep 2016 to Oct 2018
- October 2016
- Virgil Griffith – Oct 2016 to present
- Patrick Karl Storchenegger – Oct 2016 to present
- December 2016
- Andrei Maiboroda – Dec 2016 to present
- January 2017
- John Frazer – Jan 2017 to Jan 2018
- February 2017
- Victor Maia – Feb 2017 to present
- April 2017
- J Mohamed Zahoor – Apr 2017 to present
- June 2017
- Matthew di Ferrante – Jun 2017 to present
- July 2017
- Nicholas Lin – Jul 2017 to present
- September 2017
- Karl Floersch – Sep 2017 to present
- October 2017
- Jon Choi – Sep 2017 to Aug 2018
- December 2017
- Janoš Guljaš – Dec 2017 to present (verify he is working for the EF)
- February 2018
- Aya Miyaguchi – Feb 2018 to present
Missing information
- Kelley Becker
- Wendell Davis
- Matt Liston
- Nora
- Frithjof Weinert – when did he start? when did he join ConsenSys?
- Who is “Johnny” who Gav refers to in his first ever email to Vitalik? Somebody from Decentral
- Are there any other key characters who were are missing here?
- Viktor Tron says he has corrected/updates and will do those when this is on Github.
