Welcome back to our Meet The Team series. I recently had a very entertaining conversation with Sol Valverde, one of the creative minds behind Thunderbird’s user experience and interface design. Sol explained how growing up around developers influenced her career path, and discusses the thought process behind designing and improving Thunderbird’s visuals.

Having recently joined us as a full-time Android developer, Wolf brings his passion for building mobile applications to the Thunderbird team. He’ll be helping to bring new features and an updated interface to K-9 Mail as we transform it into Thunderbird for Android. I spoke with him about his first computer, what he hopes to accomplish for the Thunderbird mobile app, and how our community of contributors can help!

Welcome to a brand new feature called “Meet The Team!” In this ongoing series of conversations, I want to introduce you to the humans behind the software you use every day. When and why did they fall in love with technology? What does their day-to-day schedule look like? What attracts them to open-source projects? And what’s their playlist of choice when hacking away on Thunderbird?