Eemeli sort of stumbled into the world of JavaScript localization almost a decade ago, and hasn't found his way out yet. He works at Mozilla on localization systems and toolchain management. Eemeli also maintains the messageformat and yaml JS libraries along with a host of others, and actively participates in various efforts to improve JavaScript localization. Eemeli is a representative and active participant in working groups and other committees of ECMA, W3C, Unicode, and the YAML core group. He is a voting member of the OpenJS Foundation Cross-Project Council, and an active participant in its Standards Working Group. Over the past decade, he has spoken on a number of topics at various technical and academic conferences, science fiction conventions, and meetups.