Jack Moffitt (computer scientist)

Jack Moffitt is an American computer scientist, software developer and entrepreneur, living in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

He is a co-author of the GNU GPL licensed streaming media server, Icecast,[1][2] and works on software using XMPP, JavaScript and Erlang.

[3][4][5][6] In November 2008, Moffitt co-founded Collecta, a real-time search company which uses XMPP and includes the Strophe library, for communication between client and server.

In March 2013, Moffitt left TalkTo and joined Mozilla in the role of Senior Research Engineer [20][21] to work on Servo.

[22] In 2015, he spoke at Linux Australia's linux.conf.au conference about the goals and challenges in the ongoing development of Servo in a talk called "Building a Parallel Browser".