Tantek Çelik

Tantek Çelik is a Turkish-American computer scientist, currently serving as the Web standards lead at Mozilla Corporation. He previously held the position of chief technologist at Technorati. Çelik is recognized for his contributions to microformats and is a principal editor for several Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) specifications. He is also the author of "HTML5 Now: A Step-by-Step Video Tutorial for Getting Started Today (Voices That Matter)". Çelik earned bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Stanford University. His career includes roles at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004, where he contributed to the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer and managed the team that developed the Tasman rendering engine. He also represented Microsoft in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working groups, contributing to XHTML and CSS specifications. During his tenure at Microsoft, he developed the "box model hack" to address Internet Explorer's box model bug and created the first reset style sheet. Prior to Microsoft, Çelik worked as a software engineer at Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation, and Apple Computer. At Apple, he was involved in the OpenDoc project. He later co-founded a software development company, 6prime. At Technorati, he promoted better standards support, including microformats, and was involved in their Election 2004 section. He is also a founder of the Global Multimedia Protocols Group and has been a key figure in the IndieWebCamp initiative since 2010, aiming to build alternatives to social networking services.