Lance Ball is a part of the middleware division of Red Hat, working on a team known as project:odd. Lance and his cohorts are tasked with researching and prototyping new software which may or may not ever see the light of day. He is an active open source contributor, an author of several NPM modules, and a committer for the Node.js project. In addition to Node.js, you'll find his contributions in many other well-known open source projects including Wildfly Swarm, Vert.x, DynJS, and Torquebox.