# Community

The PowerToys team is extremely grateful to have the support of an amazing active community. The work you do is incredibly important. PowerToys wouldn't be near what it is without your help filing bugs, updating documentation, guiding the design, or writing features. We want to say thanks and to recognize your work. This is a living document dedicated to highlighting the high impact community members and their contributions.

Names are in alphabetical order, based on first name.

## High impact community members

### [@cgaarden](https://github.com/cgaarden) - [Christian Gaarden Gaardmark](https://www.onegreatworld.com)

Christian contributed the New+ utility

### [@CleanCodeDeveloper](https://github.com/CleanCodeDeveloper)

CleanCodeDeveloper helped do massive amounts of code stability and image resizer work.

### [@plante-msft](https://github.com/plante-msft) - Connor Plante

Connor was the creator of Workspaces and helped create Command Palette (PowerToys Run v2)

### [@damienleroy](https://github.com/damienleroy) - [Damien Leroy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/Damien-Leroy-b2734416a/)

Damien has helped out by developing and contributing the Quick Accent utility.

### [@daverayment](https://github.com/daverayment) - [David Rayment](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-rayment-168b5251/)

Dave has helped improve the experience inside of Peek by adding in new features and fixing bugs.

### [@davidegiacometti](https://github.com/davidegiacometti) - [Davide Giacometti](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidegiacometti/)

Davide has helped fix multiple bugs, added new utilities, features, as well as help us with the ARM64 effort by porting applications to .NET Core.

### [@ethanfangg](https://github.com/ethanfangg) - Ethan Fang

Ethan helped run PowerToys and worked on improving and prototyping out next generation PowerToys

### [@franky920920](https://github.com/franky920920) - [Franky Chen](https://frankychen.net)

Franky has helped triaging, discussing, and creating a substantial number of issues and contributed features/fixes to PowerToys.

### [@htcfreek](https://github.com/htcfreek) - Heiko

Heiko has helped triaging, discussing, and creating a substantial number of issues and contributed features/fixes to PowerToys.

### [@Jay-o-Way](https://github.com/Jay-o-Way) - Jay

Jay has helped triaging, discussing, creating a substantial number of issues and PRs.

### [@jefflord](https://github.com/Jjefflord) - Jeff Lord

Jeff added multiple new features to Keyboard Manager, such as key chord support and launching apps. He also contributed multiple features/fixes to PowerToys.

### [@snickler](https://github.com/snickler) - [Jeremy Sinclair](http://sinclairinat0r.com)

Jeremy has helped drive substantial ARM64 support within PowerToys.

### [@jiripolasek](https://github.com/jiripolasek) - [Jiří Polášek](https://github.com/jiripolasek)

Jiří has contributed a massive number of features and improvements to Command Palette, including drag & drop support, custom themes, Web Search enhancements, Remote Desktop extension fixes, and many UX improvements.

### [@TheJoeFin](https://github.com/TheJoeFin) - [Joe Finney](https://joefinapps.com)

Joe has helped with triaging, discussing issues as well as fixing bugs and building features for Text Extractor.

### [@joadoumie](https://github.com/joadoumie) - Jordi Adoumie

Jordi helped innovate amazing new features into Advanced Paste and helped create Command Palette (PowerToys Run v2)

### [@jsoref](https://github.com/jsoref) - [Josh Soref](https://check-spelling.dev/)

Helping keep our spelling correct :)

### [@martinchrzan](https://github.com/martinchrzan/) - Martin Chrzan

Color Picker is from Martin.

### [@mikeclayton](https://github.com/mikeclayton) - [Michael Clayton](https://michael-clayton.com)

Michael contributed the [initial version](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/23216) of the Mouse Jump tool and [a number of updates](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Amikeclayton) based on his FancyMouse utility.

### [@Noraa-Junker](https://github.com/Noraa-Junker) - [Noraa Junker](https://noraajunker.ch)

Noraa has helped triaging, discussing, and creating a substantial number of issues and contributed features/fixes. Noraa was the primary person for helping build the File Explorer preview pane handler for developer files.

### [@pedrolamas](https://github.com/pedrolamas/) - Pedro Lamas

Pedro helped create the thumbnail and File Explorer previewers for 3D files like STL and GCode. If you like 3D printing, these are very helpful.

### [@PesBandi](https://github.com/PesBandi/) - PesBandi

PesBandi has helped do massive amounts of Quick Accent and bug fixes.

### [@riverar](https://github.com/riverar) - [Rafael Rivera](https://withinrafael.com/)

Rafael has helped do the [upgrade from CppWinRT 1.x to 2.0](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/1907). He directly provided feedback to the CppWinRT team for bugs from this migration as well.

### [@royvou](https://github.com/royvou)

Roy has helped out contributing multiple features to PowerToys Run

### [@ThiefZero](https://github.com/ThiefZero)

ThiefZero has helped contribute features to PowerToys Run, such as the unit converter plugin

### [@TobiasSekan](https://github.com/TobiasSekan) - Tobias Sekan

Tobias Sekan has helped out contributing features to PowerToys Run such as Settings plugin, Registry plugin

## Open source projects

As PowerToys creates new utilities, some will be based off existing technology. We'll continue to do our best to contribute back to these projects but their efforts were the base of some of our projects. We want to be sure their work is directly recognized.

### [@jjw24](https://github.com/jjw24/) - Jeremy Wu

Their fork of Wox was the base of PowerToys Run.

### [WoX Launcher](https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/)

Initial base of jjw24's fork, which makes it the base of PowerToys Run.

### [Text-Grab](https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab) - Joseph Finney

Joe helped develop and contribute to the Text Extractor utility. It is directly based on his Text Grab application.

## Microsoft community members

We would like to also directly call out some extremely helpful Microsoft employees that have directly contributed to PowerToys. This isn't their day job and was work they did out of passion. We want to say thank you and recognize your work.

### [@betsegaw](https://github.com/betsegaw/) - [Betsegaw Tadele](http://www.dreamsofameaningfullife.com/)

Window Walker, inside PowerToys Run, is from Beta.

### [@TheMrJukes](https://github.com/TheMrJukes/) - Bret Anderson

The base of FancyZones and a lot of performance adjustments are from the hard work of Bret.

### [@bricelam](https://github.com/bricelam/) - [Brice Lambson](https://bricelam.net/)

Image Resizer is from Brice.

### [@chrdavis](https://github.com/chrdavis/) - Chris Davis

PowerRename is from Chris's SmartRename and icon rendering for SVGs in File Explorer.

### [@dend](https://github.com/dend/) - Den Delimarsky

PowerToys Awake is a tool to keep your computer awake.

### [@randyrants](https://github.com/randyrants) - [Randy Santossio](https://www.randyrants.com)

Randy contributed Registry Preview and some very early conversations about keyboard remapping.

### [@cinnamon-msft](https://github.com/cinnamon-msft) - Kayla Cinnamon

Kayla was a former lead for PowerToys and helped create multiple utilities, maintained the GitHub repo, and collaborated with the community to improve the overall product

### [@oldnewthing](https://github.com/oldnewthing) - Raymond Chen

Find My Mouse is based on Raymond Chen's SuperSonar.

### [@robmikh](https://github.com/robmikh) - Robert Mikhayelyan

Crop And Lock is based on the original work of Robert Mikhayelyan, with Program Manager support from [@kevinguo305](https://github.com/kevinguo305) - Kevin Guo.

ZoomIt's Video Recording Session code is based on Robert Mikhayelyan's <https://github.com/robmikh/capturevideosample> code.

### Microsoft InVEST team

This amazing team helped PowerToys develop PowerToys Run and Keyboard manager as well as update our Settings to v2. @alekhyareddy28, @arjunbalgovind, @jyuwono @laviusmotileng-ms, @ryanbodrug-microsoft, @saahmedm, @somil55, @traies, @udit3333

## Mouse Without Borders original contributors

Project creator: Truong Do (Đỗ Đức Trường)

Other contributors:

- Microsoft Garage: Quinn Hawkins, Michael Low, Joe Coplen, Nino Yuniardi, Gwyneth Marshall, David Andrews, Karen Luecking
- Peter Hauge - Visual Studio
- Bruce Dawson - Windows Fundamentals
- Alan Myrvold - Office Security
- Adrian Garside - WEX
- Scott Bradner - Surface
- Aleks Gershaft - Windows Azure
- Chinh Huynh - Windows Azure
- Long Nguyen - Data Center
- Triet Le - Cloud Engineering
- Luke Schoen - Excel
- Bao Nguyen - Bing
- Ross Nichols - Windows
- Ryan Baltazar - Windows
- Ed Essey - The Garage
- Mario Madden - The Garage
- Karthick Mahalingam - ACE
- Pooja Kamra - ACE
- Justin White - SA
- Chris Ransom - SA
- Mike Ricks - Red Team
- Randy Santossio - Surface
- Ashish Sen Jaswal - Device Health
- Zoltan Harmath - Security Tools
- Luciano Krigun - Security Products
- Jo Hemmerlein - Red Team
- Chris Johnson - Surface Hub
- Loren Ponten - Surface Hub
- Paul Schmitt - WWL
- And many other Users!

## ZoomIt original contributors

ZoomIt source code was originally implemented by [Sysinternals](https://sysinternals.com):

- [@markrussinovich](https://github.com/markrussinovich) - Mark Russinovich
- [@foxmsft](https://github.com/foxmsft) - Alex Mihaiuc
- [@johnstep](https://github.com/johnstep) - John Stephens

## PowerToys core team

- [@craigloewen-msft](https://github.com/craigloewen-msft) - Craig Loewen - Product Manager
- [@niels9001](https://github.com/niels9001/) - Niels Laute - Product Manager
- [@dhowett](https://github.com/dhowett) - Dustin Howett - Dev Lead
- [@yeelam-gordon](https://github.com/yeelam-gordon) - Gordon Lam - Dev Lead
- [@lei9444](https://github.com/lei9444) - Leilei Zhang - Dev
- [@shuaiyuanxx](https://github.com/shuaiyuanxx) - Shawn Yuan - Dev
- [@moooyo](https://github.com/moooyo) - Yu Leng - Dev
- [@haoliuu](https://github.com/haoliuu) - Hao Liu - Dev
- [@vanzue](https://github.com/vanzue) - Kai Tao - Dev
- [@zadjii-msft](https://github.com/zadjii-msft) - Mike Griese - Dev
- [@khmyznikov](https://github.com/khmyznikov) - Gleb Khmyznikov - Dev
- [@chatasweetie](https://github.com/chatasweetie) - Jessica Earley-Cha - Dev
- [@MichaelJolley](https://github.com/MichaelJolley) - Michael Jolley - Dev
- [@Jaylyn-Barbee](https://github.com/Jaylyn-Barbee) - Jaylyn Barbee - Dev
- [@zateutsch](https://github.com/zateutsch) - Zach Teutsch - Dev
- [@crutkas](https://github.com/crutkas/) - Clint Rutkas - Overhead

## Former PowerToys core team members

- [@indierawk2k2](https://github.com/indierawk2k2) - Mike Harsh - Product Manager
- [@cinnamon-msft](https://github.com/cinnamon-msft) - Kayla Cinnamon - Product Manager
- [@ethanfangg](https://github.com/ethanfangg) - Ethan Fang - Product Manager
- [@plante-msft](https://github.com/plante-msft) - Connor Plante - Product Manager
- [@joadoumie](https://github.com/joadoumie) - Jordi Adoumie - Product Manager
- [@nguyen-dows](https://github.com/nguyen-dows) - Christopher Nguyen - Product Manager
- [@enricogior](https://github.com/enricogior) - Enrico Giordani - Dev Lead
- [@bzoz](https://github.com/bzoz) - Bartosz Sosnowski - Dev
- [@ivan100sic](https://github.com/ivan100sic) - Ivan Stošić - Dev
- [@mykhailopylyp](https://github.com/mykhailopylyp) - Mykhailo Pylyp - Dev
- [@taras-janea](https://github.com/taras-janea) - Taras Sich - Dev
- [@yuyoyuppe](https://github.com/yuyoyuppe) - Andrey Nekrasov - Dev
- [@gokcekantarci](https://github.com/gokcekantarci) - Gokce Kantarci - Dev
- [@drawbyperpetual](https://github.com/drawbyperpetual) - Anirudha Shankar - Dev
- [@mantaionut](https://github.com/mantaionut) - Ionut Manta - Dev
- [@donlaci](https://github.com/donlaci) - Laszlo Nemeth - Dev
- [@SeraphimaZykova](https://github.com/SeraphimaZykova) - Seraphima Zykova - Dev
- [@stefansjfw](https://github.com/stefansjfw) - Stefan Markovic - Dev
- [@jaimecbernardo](https://github.com/jaimecbernardo) - Jaime Bernardo - Dev Lead
- [@haoliuu](https://github.com/haoliuu) - Hao Liu - Dev
- [@chenmy77](https://github.com/chenmy77) - Mengyuan Chen - Dev
- [@chemwolf6922](https://github.com/chemwolf6922) - Feng Wang - Dev
- [@yaqingmi](https://github.com/yaqingmi) - Yaqing Mi - Dev
- [@zhaoqpcn](https://github.com/zhaoqpcn) - Qingpeng Zhao - Dev
- [@urnotdfs](https://github.com/urnotdfs) - Xiaofeng Wang - Dev
- [@zhaopy536](https://github.com/zhaopy536) - Peiyao Zhao - Dev
- [@wang563681252](https://github.com/wang563681252) - Zhaopeng Wang - Dev
- [@jamrobot](https://github.com/jamrobot) - Jerry Xu - Dev Lead
