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Paul Deeds General Manager of HubPages

Before working at HubPages, Paul was a developer at MongoMusic. Paul is a prolific programmer and wrote a large percentage of the MongoMusic code base. Paul continued as a developer at Microsoft working on search engines, match technologies, and scalable data systems. A Michigan native, Paul graduated from Tufts University with a degree in computer science and quantitative economics.

Maddie Ruud Community Manager

Maddie was a freelance writer and longtime Hubber before joining the HubPages team in an official capacity in March 2008. She writes on a variety of topics, from holistic health, to nutrition, to eating disorder awareness.

Offline, Maddie enjoys experimenting in the kitchen, devouring literature, playing with language, and romping with her rescued dog.

Fawntia Fowler Software Engineer

Fawntia recently graduated from Stanford with a master's degree in computational and mathematical engineering. Before that, she majored in math at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. She enjoys traveling and cake decorating.

Larry Freeman Software Engineer

Larry has wide software experience. Larry has worked at Philips Electronics, GTE, Sun Microsystems, and recently at InterComponentware. He was on the original team at Sun that started the Java 2 Enterprise Edition Platform (J2EE) and started Java BluePrints at Sun. He grew up in Los Angeles and studied cognitive science at UCLA.

Larry loves movies, fantasy novels, and mathematics.

Ryan Hupfer Communicator of Awesomeness!

Ryan is the Marketing Manager for HubPages(he is the one on the left in the photo) and is currently downing one of the many Diet Mountain Dews that he will consume this week. He enjoys creating odd and exciting job titles, playing in The Hubber's Hangout Forum and evangelizing all of the awesome people and stories that can be found on HubPages at any point in time.

If you are someone who would like to find a way to partner up together to do some amazing things, please send Ryan a message through HubPages by clicking here.

Oh, and he wanted to tell all of you to have an awesome day and to keep on having fun!

Sumit Mehra Software Engineer

Sumit is the newest hubber to join the HubPages team. Prior to Hubpages, he's worked at Dell, Google & Yahoo where he's worked in varying software engineering roles. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer Engineering from Purdue and a graduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. When not working, Sumit loves watching movies, reading about new technology & business, hanging out with friends, and playing around with his awesome DSLR.