Our team has several decades of combined experience in social networking architecture, design, and support. We're all passionate about social networking, online community, and creating things that people want to use.

Currently, our core team consists of:

Dreamwidth Studios, LLC's Owners

Denise Paolucci (the Suit) began working on the LiveJournal.com project in 2001. Since then, she's done everything from customer service to product planning to documentation to user advocacy to QA testing to falling over exhausted because she's trying to do too much at once. She left LiveJournal in 2007 to pursue a career in writing. She hopes that with Dreamwidth Studios, she'll be able to use her experience to create a place where creative people of all types will find a home for their expression where they feel safe, welcomed, and supported.

Denise lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her long-suffering girlfriend, who fortunately enjoys the frequent "c'mere, look, isn't this cool?" invocations, and two cats, who don't care about the internet as long as they get fed on time.

Mark Smith (the Geek) began volunteering with LiveJournal.com in 2001 in technical support and code development. He joined the staff in 2004, concentrating both on feature development and backend development, where he contributed heavily to utilities, such as Perlbal and MogileFS, that are in wide use by many other sites. After transitioning to Six Apart, Mark worked to design and build out the systems infrastructure for the Vox.com product launch. In 2007, he moved to Iceland to program for CCP Games' EVE Online, before moving back to the US in early 2008 as a Senior Systems Administrator for the Mozilla Corporation.

Mark currently resides near San Francisco, CA with his fiancee and their canine companion. From time to time, he can be heard on the air as KC8BCW, typically on the local 2M repeaters. 73s!

Dreamwidth Studios' Development Team

Jesse Proulx was one of LiveJournal.com's first employees, where he worked on documentation, customer support, feature development, and human interface design. He left his position as Technical Product Manager to work as a software engineer for Dogster, a social network for pet owners, and is currently a frontend developer at Jaxtr, a voice-based social networking service.

Jesse lives just outside of San Francisco, CA with his wife and their two dogs. He is an avid musician, and spends entirely too much of his free time playing video games.