MovieBuddy was created by Stéphane Lunati and Brian Dote. Stéphane and Brian worked together at Apple Inc., releasing multiple versions of .Mac Webmail while working on the .Mac service. Stéphane and Brian are co-applicants on four patents pending from their work integrating .Mac with the iPhone back in 2007.

Stéphane, Code Guru Stéphane has over 15 years experience building desktop & web applications. He started his career in the Mac OS X world when joining NeXT Software/Apple Inc. in 1997 in Paris France. He moved then to California to work at Apple Inc. in Cupertino for almost 8 years. He was managing the .Mac back end web engineering team and he was the lead engineer for many applications like Webmail, Bookmarks, Photocast integration, iPhone RSS integration, iPhone Web Gallery, etc. Stéphane lives in the Bay Area near San Francisco, CA with his wife and his two Belgium shepherd dogs.

Brian, Pixel Pusher Brian worked with Stéphane for 5 years at Apple Inc., managing the user interface engineering group. He’s been a web developer and designer for over 10 years and specializes in interface design. Brian was the lead user interface engineer on many .Mac projects, most notably the iPhone Web Gallery, Webmail, Motion, and iTunes. These days Brian lives in sunny Honolulu, Hawaii with his wife and kids, including his jack russell puppy Princess and his border collie puppy Jasmine. Brian does not work from the beach as most people believe (or so we’re told)!