Tantek Çelik
Web Standards Lead at TekaPIM
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarTantek Çelik is Web Standards Lead at Mozilla in San Francisco with 16 years of experience championing web standards, semantic HTML and open formats. He represents Mozilla at the W3C and WHATWG, is an observer to TC39, and co-founded community initiatives including microformats, BarCamp and the IndieWeb. A pragmatic front-end engineer and standards advocate, he has shipped microformat and rel="me" profile linking in Mozilla's mozillians directory and added semantic time element and microformat support to the Bikeshed spec tool. His long career—from founding GMPG and XFN work to roles at Apple, Microsoft and Technorati—combines protocol-level advocacy with hands-on product delivery.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
html10
front-end-development10
microformats10
web-standards10
sched9
accessibility9
css8
websitedesign6
websitedevelopment6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
speced/bikeshed
Mar 2013 - Dec 2014
:bike: A preprocessor for anyone writing specifications that converts source files into actual specs.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Tantek primarily contributed to the Bikeshed project by updating the HTML structure of the generated specifications. Their commits repeatedly modified various header files to incorporate the `<time>` element for displaying dates. These changes replaced previous implementations using spans, improving semantic correctness and potentially accessibility of the generated HTML. Furthermore, the user added support for microformats.
specsbikepreprocessorspecificationsguidelines
mozilla/mozillians
Aug 2011 - Apr 2013
Mozilla community directory -- A centralized directory of all Mozilla contributors!
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Tantek's primary contributions focus on enhancing the user interface of the Mozilla community directory, specifically implementing microformat support (hCard) for profile data. They added and modified HTML templates to include hCard properties like 'url', 'email', 'nickname' and 'note', and integrated `rel="me"` to link user profiles to external services. The changes included adding classes to the HTML elements for microformat support and integrating the hCard and h-card microformats 2 support, enhancing the profile display with structured data.
centralizedmozilladirectory
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