List of Mojang Studios employees

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This article is a list of current and former employees of Mojang Studios.[note 1]

Current employees

Mojang Studios Leadership

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter) Mastodon
Kayleen Walters Studio Head
Annie Chenn Chief Operating Officer
Ada Duan Head of Brand, Growth & Partnerships
Ryan B. Cooper Head of Minecraft Game Experience @RyanCooper
Amy Stillion Chief of Staff
Jens 'Jeb' Bergensten[1] Chief Creative Officer @jeb_
Scott Dell'Osso Head of Franchise Product Strategy
Emma Brandt Head of People Operations

Design

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Agnes 'LadyAgnes' Larsson[2] Game Director, Minecraft @_LadyAgnes
Markus 'Junkboy' Toivonen[1] Creative Director, Brand @jnkboy
John Yamamoto Creative Director
Craig 'Ledski' Leigh Creative Directors, Games
Magnus Nedfors
Måns Olson @MansOlson
Torfi Frans Olafsson Creative Director, Entertainment @torfiFrans
@torfi_F_Olafss
Alex Macleod Creative Managers
Rasmus Eriksson
Samir Belarbi
Antti Meriluoto Design Directors
Laura de Llorens Garcia @PremsterL @PremsterL@mastodon.gamedev.place
Orvar Halldorsson
Art Usher Design Managers
Jesper Staafjord
Robin Hedin
Cory 'Cojomax99' Scheviak Lead Game Designers @cojomax99
Daniel Jansson
Guillaume Mroz
Matthew Gatland @mgatland @mgatland@mastodon.gamedev.place
Nickole Li
Rob Poerschke
Robin V Vincent
Uladzislau Charnaus
Brandon 'kingbdogz' Pearce Game Designers @kingbdogz @kingbdogz@mastodon.gamedev.place
Christian Berg
Colton Phillips
Angehlica Heliaq Halling @Heliaq_
Kelsey Howard
Michael Söderqvist
Michael Stagnitta
Nir 'Ulraf' Vaknin @_ulraf_
Steve Enos
Tod Pang
Kevin Grace Narrative Director
Alex Wiltshire Narrative Director, Entertainment
Anna Wendelin User Experience Design Directors
Carlos Lidón
Josefine Lindqvist User Experience Design Leads @JustJosIt
Unn Swanström @unnderbar
Aksel Englund User Experience Designers
Hajar Harda
Imani Ricks
Jem Alexander @jemalexander
Karolin Pettersson
Margot Laucournet
Sebastian Melchor Hedman
Tom Keen

Programming

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter) Mastodon
Michael J. Ott Technical Directors
Stefan Annell
Mathias Ericsson Engineering Director
Geoff Ebersol Engineering Director, Franchise Technologies and Services @GeoffEbersol
Lawrence M. Sanchez II Engineering Director, Growth Products
Aisling Canton Engineering Director, Internal New Games
Jeff McKune Engineering Directors, Bedrock Platform @tinyjeffmck
Vince Curley
Matt Hawley Engineering Manager, Franchise Services
Christian Diefenbach Engineering Managers
Elina Dettner
Ellenor Wiig
Elvira Melentyeva
Erik Wallin
Erika Renlund
Fanny P Vadillo Herrera
Haronid Moncivais
Henrik Savenstedt
Joel Bergman
Jonas Jonsson
Jonas Keating
Lie Fujita
Magnus Puig De La Bellacasa Cristiansson
Nick Horvath
Per Sahlée
Rijil Narath
Bill Carlson Lead Software Engineers
Brian Schwartz
Brock Davis
Bryan Yeo
Chris BeHanna
Dan Samhold
David Carlton @CornerHardMC @CornerHard@mastodon.gamedev.place
David Cowan
Derrick Price
Gary McLaughlin
Henning Erlandsen
Jake 'darknavi' Shirley
Jose Marcos De Oliveira
Kanita Rauniyar
Loren Hoffman
Mason McCuskey
Matt Cooley
Max Bouchez
Nickolas Graczyk
Paul Crawford
River Gillis
Ryan Burns
Torbjörn Allard
Yash Shroff
Andrew Maher Technical Leads
Anton Arbring
Dan Mauk @DanTheHat
David Ekermann
Felix 'Xilefian' Jones @Xilefian @Xilefian@mastodon.social
Garrett Allen
Jahmai O'Sullivan @jdavidosully
Jakob Rydén @jakobbohem
James S Yarrow
Jeffrey Kumley
Joe Brockhaus
Mangal Srinivasamurthy
Michael Kranz
Michael 'Searge' Stoyke[3] @SeargeDP @searge@mastodon.social
Mikael 'Slicedlime' Hedberg @slicedlime @slicedlime@mastodon.gamedev.place
Nick Burlingame
Oleg 'Volgar' Kozitsyn @Volgar @volgar@mastodon.gamedev.place
Patrick McGannon
Paulo Ragonha @pirelenito
Raphael Landaverde
Robert Sanchez
Robert Sjödahl @robertsjodahl
Sue Loh
Tristan Schneider
Ryan Zhengwu Zhang
A.J. Fairfield Software Engineers
Addison Kaufmann
Aileen Hadsell
Alec Chan
Alex Schuldberg
Alex Troyer
Alexander Torstling @atorstling
Amy Bernhoft
Andres Altamirano Montealvo
Andrew Griffin
Anna Päärni
Anthony Young
Antonino Liconti
Apurva Raman
Ayannah Rashida Oluwatoyin Adegeye
Bartosz Bok @0x00716F62 @boq@mastodon.gamedev.place
Billy Sjöberg @billyballong
Björn Larsson
Brian Luger
Bryan DeNosky
Chad George
Chad Meyers
Chloe Basel @waitwhatpotato
Chris Mhley
Chris Sedar
Christian Adåker
Christopher Miceli
Cierra Shawe
Craig Steyn @CraigSteyn
Dana Zhu
Daniel Lobo
Daniel Stevens
Dat Trieu @etanaratsastaja
David Westen
Declan Hopkins @Dooskington
Dmytro Safonov
Dominic DaCosta
Dylan Johanson
Elisabeth Gangenes
Emma Villemoes
Eric Johnston
Eric Rehmeyer @boltmeyer @ericr@hachyderm.io
Eric Sjögren
Eric Walston
Erik M Schulz
Francisco Alejandro Garcia Cebada
Georgii 'fry' Gavrichev @fry_su
Guilherme Recchi Cardozo
Gunnar Headley
Gustav Taxén
Harald Johansson
Hector M Arriaga Pineda
Hector M Llanos III
Huanyu Shao
Hugo Hägglund
Ian Gaither
Isaac Dayton
Jaafer Sheriff
Jacek 'gnembon' Wołkowicz @gnembon_mc
Jaime Vargas
James G Moore
James Nicholls
Jamie Fristrom
Jessica Chen
Jifeng Zhang @zjfroot
Jillian Polsin
Johan Yngman
Johannes Busch
Jon Maiga/Jon Kågström @jonkagstrom
Jonas Eriksson
Jonas Johansson
José Carlos Bellido
Julio Novais Raffaine
Justin Watkins
Khaleel Harper
Kirsten Springer
Kyle Schwaneke
Lina Juuso
Lorenzo Vigano
Marco Ballabio
Markus Gustavsson
Markus Winroth
Marlon Huber-Smith
Martin Hornqvist
Martin Moe
Matijas Matijevic
Matt Staubus
Matthew Clohessy
Max Perea Düring
Maxime Lebrot
Michael Oliveira-Silva
Michael Seydl
Michelle Burd
Mike Swartz
Miles Mbo
Molly Flemming
Natalie Mueller
Nathan 'Dinnerbone' Adams[4] @Dinnerbone
Nicholas Curtis
Nico Suc
Niklas Erhard Olsson
Nilay Karaoglu
Oden Stark
Omar ElGaml
Oscar Åkesson
Oswaldo Leyva Barrientos
Pär Axelsson @paera
Patrick Tobin
Paul Schierman
Per Ersson
Petter Gisslen
Petter Lundgren
Ragnar Rova
Rasmus Källqvist @RasmusKallqvist @RasmusKallqvist@mastodon.gamedev.place
Rebecca Kullenius
Rebecca McFadden
Richard Meurling
Robert Di Battista
Robert Hunt
Sam Hallam
Sebastian Ross
Shane Pierce
Shipra Behera
Simon Fagerholm
Sofie Niska
Stauffer Taylor
Stefan Torstensson
Stephanie Huynh
Tara Pratap
Taylor Feddersen
Tejas Shah
Therese Andersson
Timur Nazarov @nazarovtr
Tobias Bexelius
Trancy Xiaoying Zhu
Vincent Telleria
Wenfei Zhu
Wes Pesetti
Yeabsira Mekonnen

Production

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter) Mastodon
Elvir Bahtijaragic Head of Franchise Technologies and Services
Allison Matthews Executive Producer, Education
Anita Sujarit Executive Producers @anitasujarit
Fredrik Telenius @_b4njo
Hai Shi
Ingela Garneij
Klas Hammarström @klibb
Nikoo Jorjani
Dave Cohen Director of Bedrock Platform
Kayla Kinnunen Director of Creator @kaylasara
David Nisshagen Director of Internal New Games
David Marc Siegel Director of Minecraft Launcher
Travis Howland Director of Minecraft Online & Marketplace
Todd 'Gr8Bizzo' Baldwin Director of Minecraft Websites
Dennis Ries Director of Publishing and Licensing
Carlos Figueiredo Director of Trust and Safety
Alina Skripnik Production Directors
Bryant Hawthorne
Eric Taylor
Justin Edwards
Kristina Ashment
Marcus Bodin
Mike Ammerlaan
Molly Woodruff
Nathan Rose
Todd Stevens
Luis Cascante Production Manager
Carrie Doring Production Leads @carrisima
Milo Bengtsson
Mona Landh Gullberg
Tim Mardell
Melinda Knight Principal Producers
Su Liu
Adrian Östergård Producers @adrian_ivl
Anjelika Zora Kosanic
Barrett Livingston
Bryan G. Bonham
Carlos Naranjo
Elin Roslund
Ellen Karlsten
Eric Karlshammar
Gareth Young
Heesung Koo
Josefin Olsson
Kristina Barandiy
Laylah Bulman
Linda Dalin
Lisa Kempe @ohhilisa
Marie Bustgaard
Micael Sjölund
Nicolette Suraga @NicoletteSuraga
Petter Denninger
Rakiv Joy
Riccardo Lenzi
Sarah Von Reis
Seo Hee Hong
Sofia Gothlin
Andreas Dea Svensson Media Producers
Johan Björnung Kvarnemo
Sandra Schöön
Deanna Hearns Product Directors, Franchise Technologies and Services
Saher Hirji
Anna Lundgren Product Manager Leads
Candice Giffin
Divya Babuji
Justin Johnson
Ahmed Asif Product Managers
August Carow
Barbara Konchinski
Dejan Dimic
Donyea Cooley-White
Eliot Lee
Jorge Aleman Rodriguez
Kara Kono
Kari C Whiteside
Kat Siegert
Katie Ellison @kdellison
Liz Smith
Madeline Psenka
Malte Tammerström
Marc Watson @Marc_IRL
Micah Myerscough
Milena Gonzalez
Rachel Ji
Stephen Scott
Tia Dalupan
Tori Tippin
Zerelina Mukherjee
Josh Mulanax Release Management Lead @JORAX79
Andrew Pritchard Release Managers
Joshua Bullard
Kristian Björk Grimberg
Eric Odell-Hein Technical Program Manager Lead
Andrea Lam-Flannery Technical Program Managers
Benjamin Fall
Daniel Stewart
Dylan Kesselring
James Gregory
Kei Schafer
Lauren Henderson

Visual Arts

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter) Artstation
Erik Gestrelius Creative Leads
Johan Aronsson @JohanAronson
Martin Johansson-He
Amanda Ström Art Directors
Filip Keatley Thoms
Jasper 'JAPPA' Boerstra @JasperBoerstra
Julian Kerr
Markus Karlsson Frost
Ninni Landin @ninnilandin
Seung Sung
Sherin Kwan
Ullis Linder
Magdalena Berglind Art Manager
Alexandra Dogaru Artist Leads
Evelina Kolovou https://www.artstation.com/evekolovou
Joule Garvin @jouleisneat
@joulegarvin
https://www.artstation.com/joelgarvin
Meagan Dumford
Michael Apolis https://www.artstation.com/apolisart
Michael Neumann https://www.artstation.com/andes-neumann
Adam Sellerfors Artists https://www.artstation.com/adamsellerfors
Amelie Bjurenhed https://www.artstation.com/ameliebjurenhed
Chi 'wChiwi' Wong
Christian (Chris) Nordgren @ChrisNordgren https://www.artstation.com/chrisnordgren
Cristina Bravo Amigueti
Jan Cariaga https://www.artstation.com/mmmeko
Jesse Munguia
Kirk Barnett
Lauren Bravo-Kohler
Mattis 'BombBoy' Grahm @BomuBoi
Morten 'MortMort' Rasmussen @MortMort_ https://www.artstation.com/mortmort
Noam Briner
Peter Sheff https://www.artstation.com/psheff
Rodrigo Corvalan Vivedes https://www.artstation.com/rocoviart
Sarah Boeving https://www.artstation.com/sarahboeving
Brendan 'Sully' Sullivan Technical Artists @artofsully https://www.artstation.com/brendansullivan
Dan Sönne
Connor Burtis Product Design Leads
Ryan Sand
Will Krause
Adrian Ward Product Designers
Débora Martins
Laura Palmroth
Isak de Jong Graphic Designer

Audio

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter) Mastodon Notes
Peter Hont Audio Directors
Samuel Åberg @slamp0000
Sandra Karlsson Sound Designers
Thareeq Roshan
Tom Koselnik Olovsson
Aaron Cherof Music Composer @cherof Contractor
Amos Roddy Contractor
Daniel 'C418' Rosenfeld @C418 @C418@mastodon.social Contractor, Has high self-esteem!
Kumi Tanioka @tanikumi Contractor
Lena Raine Contractor
Kyle Hopkins Music Supervisors
Maya Halfon Cordova

Quality Assessment

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter) Mastodon
Matthew Ng Quality Director, Franchise Technologies and Services
David Fries Quality Manager @JDavidFries @JDavidFries@mstdn.jp
Joe Whitman Quality Leads
Mimi Holmstead
Agata Monk Quality Engineers
Aidan Bower
Alyssa Liu
Angela Ong
Archita Keni
Chris Woelfel
Christina Tran
Dalrek Davis
Erik Davis
Lisa Porter
Mark McAllister
Melissa Moorehead
Michelle Hyde
Mike Su
Tom Brisbane
Tom French
Björn Philipson Quality Assessment Specialists
Matthew 'Moesh' Dryden @moesh@peoplemaking.games
Olle Personne
Onur Unaldi Program Manager

User Research

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Deanne Adams User Research Lead
Sarah Santiago User Researcher

Operations

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter) Mastodon
Shanlenn B. Colby Operations Director, Global
Jewell Morelli Operations Director
Karolina Nylén Operations Managers
Mikaela Illanes
Renee Wikander
Sheila Ho
Stefanie Forsberg Operations Coordinator
Ulrika Silfverstolpe Creative Operations Director
Isabella Balk Creative Operations Manager
Adam Lemcio People Operations Managers
Aleksandra Ola Zając @MissMarzenia
Ani Grey
Brittney Pettway
Catherine Hendrix
Georgia Marra
Joël Älveroth
Ludwig Moberg Edenbäck
Darcy Harpel HR Directors
Natalie Graham
Line Thomson Human Resources
Linn Holmertz
Yvonne Zarrin Manesh
Sofia Andersson Talent Acquisition
Dinah Divinagracia Executive Business Administrators
Erin Decker
Francine Jordan
Lovisa Grindelius
Jason Perry Minard IT Managers
Rene Astorga
Shoghi Cervantes Pueyo IT @shoghicp @shoghicp@shoghi.rocks
Matthew C. Moreno Lead Automation Support

Player Care

Name Icon/Avatar Position
Anne Quaranta Director of Player Care
Alexandru Giuglea Player Support Program Leads
Erfon Haubenstock
Jake Rexus
Jen Pedersen

Data Analytics

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter)
Francisco Rius Player Analytics and Insights Director @franciscor
Abby Gaddis Data Science and Analytics Managers
Duncan Davis
Laura Funa
Miguel Fierro
Bill Chism Data Engineering Manager
Smitha Menon Data and Analytics Lead
Troy Henke Analytics Environment Manager
Sebastian Soffici Analytics Environment Engineering
Aaron Johnson Data Science
Alvaro Gil Moradillo
Axel Orrenius
Bhrigu Shree
Christer Norstrom
Grant Poinsatte
Kyle Iman
Matilda Tamm
Matthew Skirvin
Pujeethaa Jakka
Ramitha Kotarkonda
Scott Graham
Swathi Sivadas
Xuan Ting Liu
Bill Klees Data Engineering
Deepthi Rajashekar
Dhiraj Nilange
Olusola Timothy Olojede
Sachin Dekate

Marketplace development

Name Position X (Twitter)
Quinn Richter Partner program manager @quinnrichter

Software/system development

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter) Mastodon
Rob Austin Senior software development engineer (Minecraft)
Gegy Software engineer (Java Edition) @gegybeans @gegy@mastodon.gamedev.place
Guillaume Chenadec Software development engineer
John Copic Senior software engineering lead (Minecraft)
Mike Frost Senior software engineering manager
Henry Golding Principal software architect (Minecraft)
Mark Grinols Senior engineering lead
Andy 'Needsmoreclever' Hill Software engineer (Minecraft, RenderDragon) @needsmoreclever
Zane Hintzman Software engineer (Minecraft)
Jonathan Hoof Senior software development engineer (Minecraft)
Dom Humphrey Software architect
Maksim Ivanov Service softare engineer
Maria Katsourani Service software engineer
Radha Kotamarti Senior networking software engineer (Minecraft)
Emily Koykka Software engineer (Minecraft)
Tyler Laing Senior lead software engineer
Anders Martini Service software engineer
Michael McGrath Senior software engineer (Minecraft)
Drew Okenfuss Software engineer (Education Edition) @ProfessorOkie
Adrian Orszulak Software engineer (Minecraft)
Jeff Ott Platform engineer (Minecraft)
Dan Posluns Senior software engineering lead (Minecraft) @danposluns
Ryan Rae Software developer (Minecraft)
Michael Scott Principal software engineer (Minecraft)
John Seghers Principal lead software development engineer (Minecraft)
Kristin Siu Software developer (Minecraft)
Greg Snook Principal software engineering lead @greg_snook
Nathan Sosnovske Service software engineer
Brian Trevethan Senior software engineer
Peter Wiest Principal software engineering lead
Aaron Woodward Software engineer
Alexander Wilkinson Software developer (Minecraft)
Wenlan Yang Service software engineer

Content and community

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter) Mastodon
Cristina Anderca Senior Creative Writer
Gustav Höglund Community Developer @ghrivfader
Jay 'Mega_Spud' Wells Community Manager (Mojira) @mega_spud @mega_spud@mastodon.sdf.org
Kristina Horner Community Manager (Editorial) @kristinahorner
Lindsey "LZA" Schaal Community Manager (Discord)
Matthew Gartzke Community manager (Minecraft, Minecraft Dungeons, Minecraft Legends) @MattGartzke
Michelle 'MojangMeesh' Archer Waterman Community Manager
Oskar 'Pulluxx' Thysell Java Creators Team Lead @Oskar_Thysell
Nadja 'VioTries' Anderberg Content Moderator @ViolineTries
Sophia 'Lyoneer' Lyon Community Developer @Lyoneer
Nea Aime Rollan Director of Community
Julius Olofsson Creative Writer
Per Landin Creative Writer @perlandin
Linn Viberg Creative Writer
Sophie Austin Creative Writer

Realms development

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter)
Nicholas John Curtis Realms software engineer

Business development

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter)
Charlotte Angantyr Project manager
Dom Arcamone Producer
Senior program manager (Minecraft)
Josefina Axelsson Financial accountant @vitasparven
Bob Brennecke Director of business development
Vu Bui Media Director @vubui
Mike Carlson Chief technology officer
Sarah Carton Media producer
Inga Chamberlain Business development manager
Sara Cornish Senior marketing manager (Education Edition) @s_nish
Max Davidson Data science and analytics
Jeanie DuMont Marketing director
Gaylord Escalona Senior product marketing manager @Lorde_Glorde
Cesar Sima Falck IT manager
Sebastian Falk Producer
Jessica Freeman Head of marketing
Egil Gloersen Senior product marketing manager
Ellen Hahm Business development manager
Devarshi Hazarika Senior business manager
Shelia Ho Head of creative production
Senior office manager
Michelle Hua Director of business management
Owen 'Bopogamel' Jones Director of creative communications @Bopogamel
Nick Ketter Marketing manager @maroonblazer
Marina Kostesic Director of finance
David Lau Business manager
Eileen Lee Senior business manager
Jaime Limón Senior product marketing manager @MrLemon
Bill Lindell Business manager
Luis Liu Business manager
Stephanie Louie Business manager
Fergus Lynch Marketing director
Anton Maslennikov Marketing manager
Head of lifecycle marketing
Michael McManus Producer
Group program manager (Minecraft)
Rebecca Miller Business manager
Yutaka Noma Country manager, Japan
Julie Olden Senior program manager for diversity and inclusion @julieolden4
Katie Penza Senior global marketing manager
Jeff Rivait Global product marketing manager @JeffRVT
Audrey Searcy Business manager
Jeremy Snook Director of business development
DJ Stiner Producer
Senior program manager (Minecraft)
Annica Strand Producer (Minecraft Dungeons)
John Thornton Director of business planning
Susie Tinker Program manager (Education Edition)
Christy Weckner Business manager
Nedra Wilson Business manager
Lead on events and experiences
@rhymeswithred
Anton Wu IT manager
Micky Yamaguchi Producer
Program manager
Jessica Zahn Executive producer (Minecraft)
Maru Zamora Business manager
Consumer products retail lead
Amy Zou Director of business management

Intellectual property enforcement

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter)
Liz Bostick Legal counsel
Tim Han
Nick Morgan Head of Legal
Brandon Andersson Brand enforcer
Maria Malone Brand enforcer
Milla Stone Brand enforcer
Talia Grunt Brand enforcer

Contractors

Name Icon/Avatar Task X (Twitter) Mastodon Notes
57Digital Developers of Minecraft Explorer, the official Minecraft companion guide for iOS, as well as the Minecraft Skin Studio, and Marketplace Partners. @57digital Jamie Chapman and Luke Dixon
Sofia Dankis Creative writer
Duncan Geere Writer @duncangeere
Del Rey Books Publisher of various Minecraft novels and guidebooks @DelReyBooks
Random House Publisher of various Minecraft novels and guidebooks @randomhouse
Farshore Publisher of various Minecraft novels and guidebooks @FarshoreBooks
Dark Horse Comics Publisher of the Minecraft comic series @DarkHorseComics
Double Eleven Developing Minecraft Dungeons alongside Mojang Studios and Xbox Game Studios @doubleelevenltd
Play Mechanix Developing Minecraft Dungeons Arcade alongside Mojang Studios @playmechanix
Blackbird Interactive Developing Minecraft Earth and Minecraft Legends alongside Mojang Studios @InsideBBI
JINX Producer of Minecraft merchandise @JINX
ThinkGeek Producer of Minecraft merchandise @thinkgeek
The Lego Group Publisher of LEGO Minecraft sets @LEGO_Group
Ravensburger Publisher of Minecraft board games @ravensburgerna
Warner Bros. Pictures Producer of A Minecraft Movie @Warnerbros
Mattel Producer of Minecraft merchandise @Mattel
Shogakukan Publisher of Minecraft manga @Shogakukan_Pub
Viz Media Publisher of Minecraft manga @VIZMedia

Publishers

Name Edition X (Twitter)
Mojang Studios Minecraft Java and Bedrock Editions @Mojang
Xbox Game Studios Minecraft Bedrock Edition @MSStudiosBlog
NetEase China Edition @neteasegames

Former employees

Game development

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter)
Tobias Ahlin Lead experience designer @tobiasahlin
Tomas Alaeus Game developer (Minecraft Dungeons) @TAlaeus
Mark Andersen Principle Software Engineering Lead
Markus Arvidsson Game developer
Pouya Ashraf Software Engineer
Magnus Bentling Game developer (Minecraft Dungeons)
Johan Bernhardsson Game developer (Java Edition)[dubious] @jbernhardsson
Niklas 'BarneyBear' Börestam Lead game developer (Minecraft Dungeons)
Sandra Bornemark User Experience Designer
Erik 'Grum' Broes[4] Software Engineer @_grum
Juan Buis User Experience Writer @juanbuis
Jason Cahill Technical director (Minecraft)
Principal engineering architect (Education Edition)
Márcio Oliveira Launcher developer @marcio_os
Lauren Careccia Game designer (Minecraft Earth)
Oskar Carlbaum User experience developer @OskarCarlbaum
Miko Charbonneau Senior game designer (Minecraft)
Linus Cumselius Launcher developer
Lily Ekman Lead user experience developer
Daniel Frisk Game developer @danfrisk
Wolfram 'Wollay' von Funck[5] Game developer @wol_lay
Jonathan Gallina Senior user experience designer
Jared Greiner Senior game designer (Minecraft) @jaregre
Bjarni Gudmundsson Senior Gameplay Engineer
Thomas 'ProfMobius' Guimbretière[6] Game developer (Minecraft) @ProfMobius
Zackarias Gustavsson Quality engineer
Mårten Helander Game developer (Minecraft Dungeons)
Fredrik Henriksson Game developer (Cobalt) @Frall_
Max 'Keso' Herngren Narrative designer (Minecraft Dungeons) @maxherngren
Martin Hesselborn Launcher developer
Sebastian Hindefelt Game developer
Ryan 'TheMogMiner' Holtz[3] Game developer (Java Edition) @TheMogMiner
Kristoffer Jelbring[7] Game developer (Minecraft Dungeons) @KrisJelbring
Henrik Kniberg Game developer @henrikkniberg
Kirstoffer Kobosko Game developer
Irina Koulinitch Game developer
Piotr Kundu Lead Software Engineer @piotrkundu
Joachim Larsson
Maria Lemón Game developer (Java Edition) @MiaLem_n
Josh 'rockenroll4life' Letellier @rockenroll4life
Jason Major Technical director @argo_major
Michael Malmqvist Launcher developer
Kevin Martinez Sound designer
Kirill Mikhel User experience developer
Tobias Möllstam[8] Game developer @mollstam
Lucas Morales Launcher developer @lucaslsf
Petr 'peterix' Mrázek Launcher developer @peterixxx @peterix@mastodon.gamedev.place
Marc Neander Launcher developer @marcneander
Aron 'degussa' Nieminen Game developer (Minecraft and Caller's Bane) @aron_nieminen
Oscar Nilsson User experience designer (Minecraft) @oscrse
Michael Novén User experience designer @novalain
Albin Odervall User experience developer @albinodervall
Alexander Östman Game developer @Badgerisi
Pradnesh Patil Game designer (Minecraft Earth) @pradneshpatil
Oskar Pedersen Software Engineer
Markus 'Notch' Persson Founder of Mojang
Creator of Minecraft
Game developer
@notch
Saxs Persson Chief creative officer (Minecraft, Minecraft Earth) @saxs
Henrik 'Carnalizer' Pettersson[9] Production manager of Caller’s Bane
Artist
Developer of Crown and Council
Game director
@carnalizer
Jakob Pogulis Game developer
Jakob Porsér Founder of Mojang
Game developer (Caller’s Bane)
Project director
@JahKob
Anders Rosén Launcher developer
Alexander Sandor Game developer
Tim Schutz Lead game developer
Jin Shin User experience designer (Minecraft)
Emelie Sidesiö User experience developer
Sina Tamanna Game developer
Rostislav Trifonov Sound Designer (Minecraft Dungeons) @RostislavSound
Adrian Toncean Game developer (Minecraft Dungeons) @adrianton3
Niclas Unnervik Technical Lead
Clayton Vaught Technical director (Minecraft) @ashyre
Isaac de la Vega Game developer
Dario Vodopivec User experience developer
Carl Westin Launcher developer
Christian Westman[10] Game developer (Minecraft Dungeons) @westmaaan
Stephen 'OneBlueBird' Whetstine User experience design director (Minecraft and Education Edition) @onebluebird
Michael 'Mikaus' Whiteley Game developer
Daniel Wustenhoff Game developer (Minecraft and Minecraft Dungeons) @darngeek
David Zevallos Launcher developer

Artists

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter) Mastodon Artstation
Daniel Bjorkeförs Art lead (Minecraft Dungeons)
Poi Poi Chen Graphic artist (Scrolls) @PoiPoiChen
Elin Forsling 3D / visual effects artist (Minecraft Dungeons) https://www.artstation.com/hysterical
Jakob Gavelli https://www.artstation.com/jakobgavelli
Christine Gutiérrez Design lead (Minecraft)
Jesper Hallin 3D Artist
Motion graphic designer
@JesperHallin
Jennifer Hammervald Product designer @jennisprints
Lisa Hazen Artist Lead (Minecraft) https://www.artstation.com/lisahazen
Alexis Holmqvist Art director for merchandise
Sarah Kisor Lead 3D artist (Minecraft Earth) https://www.artstation.com/slkisor
Ola Lanteli Art director https://www.artstation.com/olalanteli
Christina-Antoinette Neofotistou Lead UI Artist/Producer @castpixel https://www.artstation.com/castpixel
Wiktor Persson Art Director
Kim Petersen Senior UI artist
Dylan Piepenbrok Technical artist
Mariana 'RazzleberryFox' Ramirez Animator, modeler, texture artist @RazzleberryFox @RazzleberryFox@geekhaven.social
Mariana Salimena Senior Concept Artist @cookiecat_9 https://www.artstation.com/marianasalimena
Hayden 'Dock' Scott-Baron[11][12] Artist @Docky
Brad Shuber Principal art director (Minecraft) https://www.bradshuber.com/
Telemachus Stavropoulos Art Director
Richard Worley UI Artist/User Experience Designer
Andy Zibits Principal Art Director (Minecraft)

Software/system development

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter)
Michael Andersson Software engineer
Jonas Bergström
Jeff 'Dextor' Blazier Senior software engineer (Minecraft Earth)
Jason Burch Software engineer (Minecraft)
Tommaso 'tommo' Checchi Software architect @_tomcc
Stacy Chen Service software engineer
Anthony Cloudy Software developer (Minecraft)
David Dalström Game developer (Minecraft)
Senior Software Engineer
@dalstrom
Joshua Davis Software engineer
Danila Dergachev Software development consultant
Curtis Eichner Software engineer (Minecraft)
Haley Eisenshtadt Service software engineer
Joakim Ejenstam
Elijah Emerson Senior software engineer (Minecraft)
Semih Energin Senior software engineer (Minecraft)
Don Frazier II Service software engineer
Leonard 'xlson' Gram[13] Web developer @xlson
Christoffer Hammarström System developer
Mark Jawad Lead Realms software engineer @mark_jawad
Aaron Heysse Senior software engineering lead (Minecraft)
Adrian LaVallee
Karim Luccin Software developer (Minecraft and Minecraft Earth)
Luis Mex Software engineering lead (Minecraft)
Tom Miles System engineer
Patrick O’Leary Software engineer (Minecraft) @tourettedev
Martin Odhelius Web developer @modhelius
Jonathan Ortiz Software developer
Taylor Riviera Software engineer
Tomas Sommar Web developer @tomassommar
Dave Stevens Software developer
Lisa Sturm Software developer (Minecraft)
Robyn To Service software engineer
Campbell Tran Telemetry/systems designer (Minecraft Earth)

Content and community

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter) Mastodon
Elias Arnehall Community Manager
Nova Barlow[14] Community manager @novabarlow
Sara Lempiäinen Content coordinator @saracecilia
Adam Martinsson @a_mson
Helen 'HelenAngel' Zbihlyj Community manager @helenangel @helenangel@mstdn.social
Joel Sasaki Community Management Lead @raijinn
Tom Stone Writer
Cameron Thomas Community Manager (Feedback Site) @Yung_Taku

Realms development

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter)
Erik Bylund Realms developer
Mats Henricson @matshenricson
Magnus Jäderberg
Alexander Johansson
David Marby[15] @DMarby
Amir Moulavi Realms lead developer @mamirm
Alexandre Pretto[16] Realms software engineer @alexandrepretto
Johnny Sjöö Realms developer
Philip 'Zee' Vieira @zeeraw
Cullen Waters Lead Realms software engineer @cuwaters

Business development

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter) Mastodon
Andrew Adamyk Chief of staff
Gama Aguilar-Gamez Producer
Principal program manager
Jenny Ahnell Senior brand producer @missjennyah
Isabella Arningsmark Producer
Sara Bach Executive producer (Minecraft)
Daniel Beasley Business manager (Education Edition)
Adam Blänning Front desk
Melissa Boone Senior user researcher
Åsa Bredin Studio Head of Mojang Studios
Aaron Buckley Director (Minecraft Marketplace)
Roger Carpenter Executive producer (Minecraft)
Thomas Feng Producer
Technical program manager (China Edition)
Rebecca Gordius Global public relations manager @rebecca_yeun
Jerome Hagen User research studio lead
Katy Hanson Executive business administrator
Katharina Hautz Head of creative production
Kelly Henckel Producer
Technical program manager (Minecraft)
Ulrika 'Maggan' Karlsson Human resources
Head of workplace experience
Best Liang Producer
Sara Lidberg Producer
Project manager
Robin Linder Producer
Delilah Liu Product marketing manager (China Edition and Minecraft China: Education Edition)
Lisa Liu Executive business administrator
Principal group engineering manager
Justine Loong Producer
Project manager
Alice Löfgren Head of social media
Stefan Lyrmark Finance manager
Adele Major Senior producer (Minecraft media and events) @missy__m
Jonas Mårtensson[17] Executive strategy advisor @maartensson
Stephen McHugh Director of business management
Jesse Merriam Executive producer (Minecraft)
Pablo Morales User researcher
Regan O’Leary Director of global public relations
Carina Petersson Senior media producer
Deirdre Quarnstrom Head of Minecraft Atlas @Deirdre206
Evelina Rollfelt IT manager
Marcus Rundström Producer
Maja Samuelsson Human resources @Majams
John Schork Global public relations manager
Thommy Siverman Quality engineer
Lead QA specialist
@Roq_12
Åsa Skogström Producer
Patrick Geuder Director of business development @pgeuder @geuder@c.im
Alex Andersson Office manager
Darla Barrett Executive business administrator
Matt Booty Head of Minecraft
Olof Carlson[18] Chief product officer @olofcarlson
Chris Casanova Senior producer of live operations
Yesenia Cisneros Producer
Technical program manager (Minecraft Earth)
Helen Chiang[19] Head of Mojang Studios @Pr1ncessP1ggy
Jill Curran Office manager
Amelia Dale Head of social media
Marsh Davies Creative communications manager @MarshDavies
Warren Durrett Head of data science and analytics
Brynjólfur 'Binni' Erlingsson Data warehouse manager @brynjolfur
Johannes Fridd Producer
Nathan 'Tahg' Gilbert[4][20] Minecraft server development @tahgtahv
Juan Gril Senior producer (Minecraft Earth)
Jonny Hair Producer
Siri Hoel Andersson Office manager @SiriHoel
Kaya Hatcher Senior producer
John Hendricks Creative director @JLtZD
Rikard Herlitz Chief technology officer @GooCoder
Ulrika Hojgard Head of Studio
Didac Hormiga Product marketing manager
Linn Hultman Office manager @Linnsebumsan
Moira Ingeltun Senior media producer @moizrgi
Daniel 'Kappische' Kaplan[21] Production director @Kappische
Erin Krell Executive producer
Dennis Laviolette Business manager
Patrick Liu Director of new games @pottan
Natalie Levinsson Senior financial accountant
Warren 'EvilSeph' Loo[4][22] Assistant producer @EvilSeph
Cherie Lutz Director of business development
Austin Maestre Producer
Carl Manneh[8] Founder of Mojang
Chief executive officer
@carlmanneh
Vera Mirchev Lead project manager
Hampus Nilsson Producer
Aubrey Norris Head of player operations
Maria Olekheyko Program manager (Education Edition)
Sofia Orrheim Producer
Jonatan 'eldrone' Pöljö Designator @eldrone
Mikaela Prim Office manager
Meenoo Rami Program manager (Education Edition) @meenoorami
Jason Rice Producer
Franchise business strategist
Emily 'StinkyTiger' Richardson Creative communications assistant
Karin Severinson Chief finance officer @KarinSeverinson
Nick Severson Producer
Eva Stefanac Marketing manager
Marie Stålkrantz Producer
Kasia Swica Senior lead program manager (Minecraft)
Adam Tratt Director of business development @adamtr
Chaimae Truving Reception manager
Ida Utterström Human resources
Talent acquisition consultant
Alen Voljevica Producer
Karim Walldén Lead Producer - Brand Experience @dearkarim
Michael Weilbacher Chief technology officer
Judy Wheeler Executive business administrator
Thomas Wiborgh Head of marketing communications
Cathy Wickersham Executive business administrator
Lydia 'MinecraftChick' Winters Chief storyteller @LydiaWinters
Justin Woods Producer
Charlotte Wredesjö Office manager
Bella 'Broontoo'[23] Project manager @Broontoo
Bill Wu Business manager
Olga Zielinska User researcher

Customer support

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter)
Anton Albiin Customer support agent @EttGlasVatten
Andreas Andersson @Blurplurp
Ellie Ashrafi
Cim Borg @Cim_XII
David Carlsson
Robin Cocks
Theodor Colbing
David Stuart Dahlgren @hejstuart
Henrik Davallius
Nasim Derakhshan
Rabi Hadad
Eliza Hearsum
Amelia Henriksson
Nicole Jansson
Carl Johnsson
Andrea 'hideous' Jörgensen @AndiJorgensen
Antonia Kousathana
Joe Liu @JoeBleh
Sarah Mårtensson
Ana Martins
Robert Miskiewicz
Erik Nordberg
Rui Riberio
Fredrik Sandstrom
Henry Shi
Dante Stjernberg
Patrik Södergren
Robin Thunström @RobinThunstrom
Mike 'ClayHero' Till @Fals3Ech0
Annika Tripke-Lund
Mattias Victorin @MattiasVictorin

Intellectual property enforcement

Name Icon/Avatar Position X (Twitter)
Matilda Åkerman Intelluectual property enforcement agent
Mathias Andersson Intellectual property enforcement agent @engstofficial
Sylvia Chen
Christi Davisson Legal counsel
Marcus Forss Intellectual property enforcement agent
Teresa Rodewald Intellectual property enforcement lead
Karl Lowry Brand enforcer

Former contractors

Name Icon/Avatar Task X (Twitter)
Corey 'MonsieurV3rt' Clemans Latin America community coordinator @coreyclemans
Gary M. Community Manager (Scrolls)[24] @atmaz
Gareth Community Manager (Scrolls)[24] @seemescrollin
Telltale Games Developers of Minecraft: Story Mode and Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two @telltalegames
Other Ocean Interactive Developers of the New Nintendo 3DS Edition of Minecraft @Other_Ocean
Scholastic Original publisher of various Minecraft guidebooks @Scholastic
Mattel Creations Produces the Minecraft Mini-Series
Atomic Cartoons @atomiccartoons
Nikolaj Nyholm Assisted Mojang with their early business development. @nikolaj
Paul Spooner Assisted with the development of Minecraft's trees. @dudecon
Kristoffer Zetterstrand Made the paintings for Minecraft. @Zetterstrand
4J Studios Developers of the Legacy Console Edition of Minecraft @4JStudios
Garry 'Army of Trolls' J Lucken Made the skins for the Pocket Edition Skin packs and some skins in the Halloween and Skin Pack 3 Skin packs for Legacy Console Edition[25][26] @armyoftrolls
Egmont Group Publisher of Minecraft Books and Minecraft: Official Magazine
Kellogg's Producer of Minecraft: Creeper Crunch @kelloggcompany
Jazwares Producer of Minecraft merchandise @Jazwares
2 Player Productions Producer of Minecraft: The Story of Mojang @2PProductions
Loot Crate Producer of Minecraft merchandise @lootcrate
Adventure Chest Producer of Minecraft merchandise @AdventureChest

Notes

  1. This list contains some employees who are employed by Microsoft and work on other games for Microsoft and other companies owned by them. Since Microsoft owns Mojang and they are mentioned in the credits, we will include them here.

References

  1. a b Bug update #4, and we're six people in the office now! – The Word of Notch, December 1, 2010
  2. User Profile: [Mojang] Agnes Larsson – Mojang Jira
  3. a b "The Future of Minecraft MINECON 2013 Panel" – TeamMojang on YouTube, December 27, 2013
  4. a b c d "Minecraft Team Strengthened!" (archived) by Jens Bergensten – Mojang.com, February 28, 2012.
  5. "Yeeah, we just hired @wol_lay, the man making Cube World. Cube World unaffected, still his private game."@notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), January 5, 2012
  6. User Profile: [Mojang] ProfMobius (Thomas Guimbretiere) – Mojang Jira
  7. "This week I left Mojang Studios after 9 years. It’s been an incredible journey which I will never forget. In 2021 I’ll pursue a new adventure, but more on that later!"@KrisJelbring (Kristoffer Jelbring) on X (formerly Twitter), December 30, 2020
  8. a b 2011, here we go! – The Word of Notch, January 3, 2011
  9. "New addition to the Mojang team: Welcome graphical artist @carnalizer!"@carlmanneh (Carl Manneh) on X (formerly Twitter), August 8, 2011
  10. "first day at Mojang, anything could happen!"@westmaaan on X (formerly Twitter), April 3, 2016
  11. The Minecraft artist is Dock! – The Word of Notch, December 22, 2009
  12. Dock is no longer involved with the project – The Word of Notch, February 5, 2010
  13. "Mojang grows by one more resource! @xlson will now spend his days refreshing reddit or whatever webops do. Say hi! :D"@notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), October 10, 2011
  14. "Hello friends and random folks I don't know following me! It is my last day with the Minecraft community team! I have been overjoyed to work with the best team on the planet but the time has come for new adventures. What's next?"@novabarlow on X (formerly Twitter), December 31, 2020
  15. "Also, we hired another awesome developer to the Realms team: @DMarby Welcome David! :)"@carlmanneh (Carl Manneh) on X (formerly Twitter), May 12, 2014
  16. "Welcome to the Realms team, @alexandrepretto! Ele fala português!"@Marc_IRL (Marc Watson) on X (formerly Twitter), January 12, 2017
  17. "Mojang invents cloning technology" (archived) by Carl Manneh – Mojang.com, October 2, 2013.
  18. "Excited to be doing my first day today at Mojang in Stockholm, working on Minecraft Realms with @Marc_IRL @zeeraw @DMarby!"@olofcarlson on X (formerly Twitter), March 29, 2016
  19. "How Microsoft's Mojang Purchase Changed The Company's Acquisition Culture" by Luke Jones – Winbuzzer.com, July 10, 2020.
  20. "I am no longer working on Minecraft."@tahgtahv on X (formerly Twitter), July 31, 2012
  21. Three man strong! – The Word of Notch, September 13, 2010
  22. "Had a great time working for Mojang but it's time for me to pursue other interests. As of yesterday, I am no longer working for Mojang."@EvilSeph (Warren Loo) on X (formerly Twitter), October 2, 2013
  23. "Welcome Bella, Mojang's new project manager, to Mojang with a friendly follow and jolly greeting! Be nice, Minecrafters! <3 @Brontoo"@mojang on X (formerly Twitter), June 29, 2015
  24. a b "Scrolls FAQ" – ScrollsDev, July 14, 2015, Tumblr
  25. "Pocket Edition now has skins, chicken jockeys, more!" (archived) by Owen Jones – Mojang.com, May 26, 2015.
  26. "Hearing reports that Skin Pack 3 is available now. Skins in this pack were created by renowned pixel artist "Army of Trolls"!"@4JStudios (4JStudios) on X (formerly Twitter), October 17, 2012


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