About Faruk Ateş
Faruk Ateş does creative things on the Web, like Modernizr: an Open Source library that helps you take advantage of cutting-edge features in HTML5 and CSS3 today. Prior to going independent and working to make building great websites easier and faster, Faruk was the Product Designer at Apture, now acquired by Google, and did a three year stint as a UI Engineer at Apple, where he helped bring modern web development techniques to the Online Store and MobileMe.
Faruk has written for many publications both online and in print, and speaks all around the world about web design, development, standards and best practices. He is a co-founder of Presentate, an online presentation software startup in San Francisco, and spends his time between there and Vancouver, B.C.