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The DFINITY Foundation is a Swiss-based not-for-profit research organization that builds the Internet Computer. It develops advanced cryptography and distributed-systems technology for a tamperproof frontier cloud where developers and AI agents can deploy and run applications.
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40 current maintainers37 active leads5 new active leads30 lead step-downs1 lead movement15 early lead departures

Maintainer signals as of Aug 10, 2026


Maintainer Intelligence

This view starts from the canonical internal-employee model. A maintainer is an internal employee who merged at least one pull request in a non-fork repository; external contributors, bots, and PR authors are not treated as causal. Active leads have merged within the last three months.

40

Current maintainers

37

Active leads

5

New active leads

30

Lead step-downs

1

Lead movements

15

Early lead departures

Signals as of Aug 10, 2026github.com/dfinity

Maintainers (234)

Maintainer Movements (13)

@DSharifi moved lead merge authority to Anza.

Confirmed Jul 20, 2026 · Active

Last source merge Feb 13, 2025 · First destination merge Jul 20, 2026

@levsha moved lead merge authority to Anza.

Confirmed Feb 11, 2026 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Dec 13, 2023 · First destination merge Feb 11, 2026

@NikolasHaimerl moved lead merge authority to Filecoin Beam.

Confirmed Mar 13, 2025 · Observed

Last source merge Dec 13, 2024 · First destination merge Jan 8, 2025

@plitzenberger moved lead merge authority to Hypha.

Confirmed Nov 12, 2024 · Observed

Last source merge Dec 8, 2023 · First destination merge Nov 12, 2024

@dralves moved lead merge authority to EigenCloud.

Confirmed Jul 26, 2024 · Observed

Last source merge Aug 16, 2022 · First destination merge Jul 26, 2024

@lsgunnlsgunn moved lead merge authority to Kadena.

Confirmed Jun 27, 2024 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Jun 16, 2021 · First destination merge Jun 27, 2024

@jsamol moved lead merge authority to AirGap.

Confirmed Mar 18, 2024 · Observed

Last source merge Oct 18, 2023 · First destination merge Mar 18, 2024

@egeyar moved lead merge authority to Lit Protocol.

Confirmed Jul 17, 2023 · Observed

Last source merge Nov 30, 2021 · First destination merge Jul 17, 2023

@p-shahi moved lead merge authority to libp2p.

Confirmed Aug 22, 2022 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Jun 17, 2021 · First destination merge Aug 22, 2022

@jwiegley moved lead merge authority to Kadena.

Confirmed Aug 20, 2022 · Observed

Last source merge May 20, 2022 · First destination merge Jun 30, 2022

@valeryz moved lead merge authority to Zilliqa.

Confirmed May 15, 2022 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Feb 15, 2022 · First destination merge May 4, 2022

@gobengo moved lead merge authority to NFT.Storage.

Confirmed Mar 23, 2022 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Jun 17, 2021 · First destination merge Mar 23, 2022

@paulyoung moved lead merge authority to CODEBASE.

Confirmed Mar 21, 2022 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Nov 22, 2019 · First destination merge Mar 21, 2022