About the author

Photo by Martin Aspeli

Alexander Limi combines the kind of good looks, intelligence, sensitivity, and raw animal magnetism that only come from writing his own biography.

His formal background is in psychology and computer science from various universities in Norway, and he co-founded the open source Content Management System Plone back in 1999. It is now one of the largest content management software projects in the world, with about 100 core developers and over 500 add-on developers as well as 200 companies in 40 countries providing services, support and integration for the system.

In 2003, he co-founded the company Plone Solutions — now known as Jarn — where he is still heavily involved on the owner side and as a board member. He was instrumental in creating the Plone Foundation, a non-profit that protects and promotes Plone, trademarks and intellectual property, and negotiated initial funding with a major industry player.

In 2006, he moved from Norway to San Francisco and started working with Google as a User Interface Designer in Mountain View, California.

Other places you might have seen/heard him:

• The Wikipedia CSS is mostly his code, that’s why Wikipedia looks like the default Plone design — it’s not the other way around.
• A band that he was part of back in Norway had their music featured in the major US TV series “The Shield”. (and no, they never got any royalties for it)
• He keynoted the Python Conference 2006.

Oh, and all opinions expressed on this site are mine, not Google’s. But you already knew that, didn’t you?