A cast of thousands - the Adobe Acrobat credits

When I complete a proposal, I like to take the time to thank the people who contributed in some way to the proposal. Sometimes this will amount to a few dozen people (although I always manage to miss someone) throughout the company.

Similarly, when I was a product manager, I had contributions from dozens of people to a product release.

And I thought that was a lot, until I had to see whether my version of Adobe Acrobat was affected by the recently-announced security vulnerability. In the process of checking this, I found the list of credits for Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2. It's a rather long list. And it doesn't even include the key grip and the gaffer.

Engineering: Shashank Agarwal, Manu Aggarwal, Shilpi Aggarwal, Ram Bhushan Agrawal, Shad Ahmad, Adam Altman, Alex Alvarez, Jason Alward, Antoine Amanieux, Paul C. Anderson, Joe Andolina, Dylan Ashe, Sarika Atri, Aleksandr Avseyev, Anima Bais, Gangadhar Bathula, Jean-Roch Beausoleil, Narinder Beri, Neha Bhayana, Carole Bonche, Mark Brooks, Shradha Budhiraja, Hai Bui, Michael Burke, Darren Burns, Stefan Cameron, Adam Castrucci, Jui-Ting Chen, Wing Man Cheng, Ken Chiu, Priyank Choudhury, Jean-Philippe Ciman, Myriam Cisse, Aaron Cody, Philippe Cohen, Richard Cohn, David Collins, Craig Conner, Helene Corbin, Matt Crosby, Hemant Dabral, Subhash Daga, Steve Dakin, Satya Das, Isabelle De Galzain, Priyamvad Ravindra Deshmukh, Heather Devine, Richard Devitt, Anmol Dhawan, Mark Donohoe, Jill Douglas, Chet Drarvik, Darrell Dykstra, Maurice Fisher, Martin Fox, Eman Fu, Shawn Gaither, Shinjani Gaur, Gary Gilchrist, Brad Glover, Andres Gonzalez, Srini Gowthaman, John Green, Jonathan Green, Henry Guan, Rajan Gupta, Shyam Gupta, Yash Gupta, James Hall, John Hanson, Matthew Hardy, Brian Havlin, Vivek Hebbar, Bruce Hodge, Kevin Hogan, Matthew Homer, David Hwu, Paul Imeson, Freddy Jensen, Ken Joye, Chirag Juneja, Alex Kalaidjian, Marc Kaufman, Nishant Kaushik, Tom Keller, Varun Khaneja, Tae Ho Kim, Satoshi Komiyama, Chika Kono, Tim Kukulski, Divij Kumar, Nikhil Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Uday Kurkure, Charlene Land, Grayson Lang, Srivani Lanka, Genevieve Laroche, Glenn Larson, Mike Laursen, Stephanie Legault, Luc Leroy, Mark Leyden, Eric Lievre, Alison Love, Bruno Louisgrand, Ryan MacConnell, Peter MacLeod, Don Mah, Felix Manchec, Amit Manocha, Krystof Marchwica, Dejan Markovic, Stephane Mathon, Anatole Matveief, Rob McAfee, Liz McQuarrie, Ashutosh Mehra, Paul Michniewicz, Romil Mittal, Ramneek Modgil, Alex Mohr, John Morris, Sandip Nath, Terry O'Donnell, Allan Padgett, Dmitriy Paley, Aditya Kumar Pandey, Krishna Kumar Pandey, Vince Parsons, Cedric Patriarca, Peter Peng, Thierry Perrin, Jason Pittenger, Jim Poje, Charan Raj, David Rees, Richard Relph, Justin Reynolds, Pierre Rigobello, Ben Rogers, Robert Rollins, Leonard Rosenthol, Angshuman Rudra, Sakshi Sachdev, Dave Sawyer, Craig Schamp, Jeremy Seeba, Martin Senecal, Peter Seo, Benjamin Sergeant, Neha Seth, Rudi Sherry, Scott Shields, Chuck Shnider, Randy Silvia, Arjun Singh, Damanjit Singh, Pradeep Kumar Singh, Alex Smith, Howard Smith, Chris Solc, Bruce Spath Jr., Jacob Stolin, Jason Szeto, Jiaming Tao, Mike Tardif, Isak Tenenboym, Steve Tibbett, Aditya Vaish, Vincent Varennes, Igor Vaynshteyn, Eric Vinchon, Le Vu, Gene Wang, Bryan Wei, Larry Weinberg, Tim Wiegman, Anna Liza Wong, Martin Yip, Jean Young, Jeff Young, Guanshan Yu, Lijie Yu, Haiqing Zhang, Willa Zhang

Quality Engineering: Atul Agarwal, Disha Agarwal, Shivani Agarwal, Amit Kumar Agrawal, Nimisha Agrawal, Richa Aggarwal, Javed Akhtar, Rahul Anand, Nitin Bansal, Lee Baumgardner, Ibrahim Bayaa, Gary Beardsley, Jason Beique, Rahul Bhardwaj, Bicky Bhullar, Pahup Bilala, Heather Bogle, Wayne Brant, Jeff Canepa, Mamatha Channapatna, Jaemin Choi, Sky Stephen Chung, Joshua Corey, Bertrand Courtemanche, Pete De Vasto, Junwu Deng, Atanu Dhar, Sanjay Dhiman, Denise Doucet-Davies, Tong Duan, Galina Dubrovin, Thom Dunlevy Jr., Andrey Efremov, Robert Feisel, Oana Floares, Andra Folks, Paul Foster, Yoko Fukuda, William Gan, Anthony Gates, Erik Gibson, Alex Grossman, Anurag Gupta, Mayank. Gupta., Robert Hache, Kaitlyn Hanrahan, Ribeka Hayashi, Kirsten Hays, Paul Herrin, Mike Hicks, Johnson Ho, Myla Hum, Nik Jabin, Derek Johnson, Murali Kaduru, Robert Kagramanov, Natalya Kagramanova, Pratap Kantipudi, Mohd. Kashif, Sharad Katiyar, Ismeet Kaur Makkar, Vikas Kaushal, David Kelly, Aparna Khan, Shahab Khan, Raj Khanna, Yachna Khare, Michael Kirby, Mariko Komae, Christa Kovac, Sanika Kulshreshtha, Albina Kuzmina, Lucia Lao, Derek Lau, Perry Lee, Hong Li, Jay Li, June Liu, Annie Mac, Tejasvita Madan, Steven Madwin, Sundeep Maithani, Renato Maschion, Laura Meyers, Vicky Miao, Steven Mielich, David Millman, Ashish Mishra., Suchit Mishra, Svetlana Monogarova, Carlos Moreno, Carey Ann Mullins, Snigdha Nandan, Elise Nguyen, Alex Nisevich, Yuriko Nishitani, Brendan Nolan, Rishi Oberoi, Sachin Oberoi, Vaibhav Padlikar, Jocelyne Pae, Manish Pali, Laurent Paonessa, Hye Joon Park, Tanya Parkhomovsky, Shivali Pawar, Valeriy Perunov, Matthew Plumstead, Blair Powell, Fabio Quintanilla, Kazi Rahman, Svetlana Ravkin, Seth Reilly, William-Andres Gallego Rendon, Jason Reuer, Rufina Roytman, Anjali Rudrakshi, Ernest Ruppenthal, Tak Saito, Cheryl Salamone, Abhijit Sarkar, Olga Satchouk, Diaa Sayed, Samuel Schalley, Meenu Sharma, Ravish Sharma, Norm Shaw, Saket Sidana, Pankhri Singhai, Rohit Singhal, Jean-Philippe Siroux, Deepak Kumar Sisodia, Steve Small, Scott Snyder, Kavita Soni, Abhilasha Srivastava, Abhishek Srivastava, Amboo Srivastava, Mila Stadlin, Chaya Sudindrakumar, Jin-Ki Suk, Pooky Supthaweesuk, Lawrence Tam, Shalini Taneja, Shiao-Chen Tang, Himanshu Tawde, Anupam Tayal, Mark Tezak, Jyh-Jiun Tseng, Jagriti Uppal, Kavitha Vedantam, Sathyanarayanan Viswanathan, Claudia Vo, Margarita Voskoboynik, Jennifer Vu, Ofer Wallach, Sue Xu, Akinori Jay Yamamoto, Mark Yang, Steven Yen, Evan Waterman, Tom Watson, Jason Wu, Adele Zhou

Engineering Management: Steve Adams, Anup., Chris Arkenberg, Arun Anantharaman, Kamlesh Bahedia, Mike Bessuille, Sujata Bopardikar, John Briere, John Brinkman, Jean-Luc Brocard, Jean Brousseau, Dave Burris-Brown, Anamika Chadha, Viraj Chatterjee, Alex Choy, Lisa Choy, Francois Chretien, Greg Christopher Jr., Alain Cordier, Clark Donahue, Christophe Dumoulin, Chi-Jen Fang, Shirley Foreman, Anupam Garg, Tim Gladden, Robert Goldberg, Kirk Gould, Nathan Graham, Shawn Greenberg, Vishal Grover, Didier Guillaud, Avinash Kumar Gupta, Naresh Gupta, Barbara Hedman, Dominic Hung, Amy Jaeger, Gaurav Jain, Richard Jensen, Frances Jim, Dennis Kauffman, Hitomi Kudo, Ravindra Kuruneru, Sandra Lee-Doersam, Bennett Leeds, Dan Lesage, Philip Levy, Gladys Liu, Rajiv Mangla, Mike Matsumoto, Krista McCredie, Steve McShurley, David Mendels, David Miller, Abhigyan Modi, Steve Monroe, Claude Morris, Amar Mukherjee, Mukul., Chuck Myers IV, David Nikkel, Tim Oey, Kim Ortiz, Mike Ossesia, Ajay Pande, Roberto Perelman, Manju Pillai, Ganesh Sahai, Dina Sakahara, Joe Sanfilippo, K.L. Seh, Bill Shapiro, Rajeev Sharma, Sheri Shipe, Peter Smith, Tupper Snook, Galileo Solorzano, Hisami Spector, Tomoko Taki, Frederic Thevenet, Judith Toombs, Lily Tran, Amit Vats, R Sai Venkatesh, Kumar Vora, Dave Welch, Pat Wibbeler, Tim Winkler, Mike Wirth, Karen Woodmansee, Les Woolsey, Bob Wulff, Shan Shan Xia, Andrew Yarborough, Phil Ydens, Koichi Yoshimura, Roger Younge

Product Management: Ken Anderson, Carlos Araya, Vipul Bansal, Rick Brown, Michael Folkers, Chris French, Sanjoy Ghosh, Steve Gottwals, Sudha Iyer, Mark Manca, Peter McColgan, Jeff Moran, Aman Deep Nagpal, Steve Snell, Jeff Stanier, David Stromfeld, Randy Swineford, Pierre Tager, Lionel Vieilly, Jess Walker III, Amy Wang

Product Marketing: Alex Amado, Stephanie Baartz-Bowman, Rak Bhalla, John Clark, Lori DeFurio, Chris Drost-Hansen, Christine Ek, Joel Geraci, Ali Hanyaloglu, Lori Kassuba, John Landwehr, Kenny Lee, Kevin M. Lynch, Marion Melani, Mitch Nelson, Jack Oyharcabal, Akiko Yamamoto, Aline Yu, Laurel Zane

Acrobat Administration: Claire Allen, Eloise Coltin, Pooja Chugh, Karissa Digini, Julie Ford, Karin Jurcevich, Nohemy Chavez Kaludi

Globalization: Ilie-Marian Ana, Catalin Buzoiu, Amrita Chakrabarti, Monica Fogarasi, Richard Geraghty, Rob Jaworski, Gary Jing, Neeraj Kumar, Kaho Lo, John Nguyen, Morten Nilsen, Mihai Nita, Dragos Onac, Namrata Parmar, Vikash Prasad, Karin Richer, Jeff Rueppel, Ankush Sharma, Stefan-Emil Toader, Milind Wanjari, Margaret Wong, Zhongping Yan

Prerelease Programs: Deepak Garg, Ashu Mittal, Ashish Mishra, Mansi Grover, Harpreet Singh

Experience Design: Dan Cooney, Marissa Dulaney, Scott Garsed-Donnelly, Matt Hamlin, Cable Hicks, Andrew Lin, Liang-Cheng Lin, Amy Poling, Marie Scanlon, Craig Scull, Neha Talesara, David Valiulis, Daniel Walsh

Additional Engineering: Sunil Agrawal, Dan Brotsky, Xie Fang, Ken Feuerman, Sourabh Goel, Oliver Goldman, Jim Hebert, William Ie, Dov Isaacs, Akshat Jain, Himanshu Jindal, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Prathibhanu Kumar, Venky Kumar, David Lenoe, Larry MacLennan, Ian Melven, Gaurav Modi, Alex Mohr, Jeffrey Mott, Greg Pisocky, Jim Pravetz, Zhigang Qi, Ramesh Rathour, Craig Rublee, Andrei Sheretov, Joe Steele, Harish Suvarna, Daniel Taborga, Dipti Thakkar, Mike Tilburg, James Toland

Additional Quality Engineering: Akshat Bhargava, Sandip Bumtariya, Juan Gutierrez, Hema Nagireddi, Hongchau Tran

Additional Engineering Management: Malay Sankar Barik, Paul Betlem, Jennifer Chang, Connie Chin, Ed Costello, Carl Dockhorn, Aditya Falodiya, Naveen Goel, Arno Gourdol, Masa Hokari, Ajay Jain, Sandeep Kashyap, Jim King, Erick Lee, Bill McCoy, Colm McKeon, Antonia Mora, Tom Muller, Raman Nagpal, Noela Nakos, Mike Parker, Leandro Reis, Edward Rowe, Mike Scrutton, Cheryl Shimamoto, Ed Taft, Hemant Virmani, Jonathan Wall, Eric Wilde, Jose Wong

Additional Product, Marketing, and Business Management: Jane Brady, Alice Chin, Juan-Carlos Colosso, John Cristofano, Peter Hanisch, Juergen Hauser, Chris Hohman, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Lonn Lorenz, Dirk Meyer, Adil Munshi, Mihir Nanavati, Luis Polanco, Mathias Siegel, Sharon Swan, Cynthia Tillo, Alan Williams

CORE TECHNOLOGY

Core Tech Management: Digby Horner, Frits Habermann, Ranjit Desai, Erik Boe, Parminder Singh, Carol Staub, Kathy Huffman, Christina Patchell, Alan Johnson

Architecture: Paul Holland, Sohrab Amirghodsi, Maki Aoki, Chip Brown, Ioana Danciu,
Rich Dermer, Gordon Dow, Jeff Herrin, Bruce Kaskel, Pat Lewis

Adobe Graphics Manager: Dalia Ackner, Steve Brooks, Prasun Choudhury, Dan Clark,
Cynthia Lau, Alex Parenteau, Stephan Yhann

Adobe Graphics Manager - Printing and PDF Generation: Christopher Butler, Rik Cabanier, Scott Chai, Rick Rocheleau, Tim Roth

Adobe Metadata (XMP): Frank Biederich, Alan Lillich, Frank Nocke, Hartmut
Warncke, Joerg Ehrlich, Samy Makki, Stefan Makswit, Jane Bond

XML Technology: Perry Caro, Chris Deighan, Allan Bradley, John Mostrom, Dan
Garrison, Hiromi Watanabe

AMT and AUM: Randy McFarland, Kevin Stewart, Anil Bhavnani, Rodney
Smith, Reggie Adkins, Steve Balo, Mark Bennett, Wei Cheng, John Fieber, Leo Liu, Vivek Misra, Mike Orr, Rohit Paliwal, Rob Russell, Matt Shafer, Michael Worobec, Kevin Yang, Sandeep Handa, Sanjeev Biswas, Pradeep Cyril Ekka, Ravi Prakash Singh, Muru Palaniappan, Chris Paduan

Color Management: Lars Borg, Peter Constable, Ken Kameda, Manish Kulkarni

Core Type: Vida Amani, Azita Mostafavi, Michiharu Ariza, Dave Arnold, Terry Dowling, Judy Lee, Sairus Patel, Tim Wojtaszek

Sangam: Rahul Gupta, Shivani Gupta, Surendra Sachdeva.

PDFL: Anubhav Mukherjee, Bigyan Ankur Mukherjee, Mohit Kalra, Praveen Kumar Goyal, Protonu Basu, Saurabh Sharma, Sunil Kishor Pathak, Taru Kumar Trehan, Vipul Jain.

Jpeg2000: Puneet Kumar Garg.

MPS: Gurpreet Singh, Vamsi Narla, Vinay Nahata.

Scripting Components: Elizabeth Smith, Michael Daumling, Mark Francis, Bernd
Paradies, Patrick Wollek, Ron de los Santos, Elba Sobrino

Quality Engineering: Li Wha Chen, Vivek Adlakha, Rekha Agarwal, Kevin Cheng, Jeff Jiao, Patryce
Farrell, Rani Mahapatra, Ahmad Niketeghad, Eleanor Wong, Vivek Agrawal, Vishnu Kumar, Abhishek Jain, Ankur Agarwal, Tarun Behari Agrawal, Neetu Bansal,
Vivek Bhide, Manpreet Singh Brar, Mike Baxley, Tim Beauchamp, Michael Boldt, Jeff
Broiles, Tom Burbage, Tushar Chandra, Hui Chen, Reena Chawla, Nikhil Dua, Steve
Fransen, Aya Ivtsan, Amit Jain, Tushar Jain, Mosum Gaba, Pradeep Kumar, Hemant
Kumar, Vineet Kumar Garg, Jeff Gehman, Shelley Gooch, Caroll Guertin, Ankit Gupta,
Kashyap Jogi, Vikas Kamate, Satish Kumar, Margaret Lem, Richard Li, Chung-Yee
Liew, Wendy Luo, Doug McBride, Vivien Moses, Jay Kumar Murari, Reema Nagpal,
Mohit Narula, Mina Nishimura, Chang-Min Pak, Suraj Ranjan, Deanna Quinones,
Srinivas Peri, Jon Reid, Tom Sackett, Tom Semple, Chandan Singh Manirup Sinha,
Noriko Takahashi, Kiyotaka Taki, John Townsend, P S Unnikrishnan, Rick Wayne,
Omar Wilson, Yan Zhang, Lilian Zhuo, Yan Zhou, Ming Zhao, Hailong Zhao, Qiyi Yang, Wei Wang, Mingjun Zhang, Marcel Bulanon

Admins: Kristen Kelln, Trisha Kelly, Mary Rourke

Legal: Curtis Arnold, Mindy Laponis, Rachel Liu, David Nix, James Oh, Jennifer Ruehr, Lynsey Sayers, Ann Sellier, Birgit Young

Visual Design: Daniel Ambrosius, Gesine Grewoldt, Ryan Hicks, Nicole Krohn, Isabele Landthaler, Bob Murata, Robyn Orr, Bettina Reinemann

Adobe Systems Japan: Akiko Fukue, Rie Ajiki, Yuki Kambara, Mayuka Kawakami, Yukio Kawamata, Noriko Kawashima, Yoshiuki Koakutsu, Mikako Mizukami, Mieko Ogura, Tsuyuki Shiono, Yoriko Suzuki, Kaori Yonezawa

Adobe Systems China: Kaimeng Huang, Yajie Ma, Amanda Wang, Fei Wang, Yuelin Yan, Lichuan Yang, Cynthia Yu, Robin Zhang, Yinghong Zhang, Ziliang Zhang, Angela Zhao, Liang Zhao, Helin Zheng

Type: Nicole Bok, Masataka Hattori, David Lemon, Ken Lunde, Ernest March, Ryoko Nishizuka, Thomas Phinney, Read Roberts, Robert Slimbach, Christopher Slye, Miguel Sousa, Taro Yamamoto

Core Services Globalization: Claire Barrault, Kevin Herman, Sonia Oliveira, Alison Strahan

Acrobat and Reader Customer Care: Rezal Allam, Gordon Barker, Jacques Bertrand, Alister Black, Ana Carrier, David Chamberlin, Steve Cordero, Ksenija Curcic-Vukovic, Simon Haringa, Michael Jantzen, Mayuka Kawakami , Andrew Tai Kedzierski, Bjorn Kjellsson, Etienne La, Patrick Leckey, Markus Marenbach, Thomas Migot, Norihiro Nakamura , Olaf Pohlmann, Carlos Guerrero Romero, Louise Soeder, Malcolm Thomson, Philipp Taprogge, Dean Verbrugghe, Timothy Willcocks, Sofiane Zairi, Henk Zeelenberg

Learning Resources: Andrew Ajemian, Maryann Amado, Mary Ann Brand, Drew Brazil, Diane Catt, Erich Champion, Debbie Chu, Freda Cook, Dean Dapkus, JoAnn Davis, Bob Fischer, Carol Franger, Neil Harward, Geneva Holloway, Joan Huang, Kim Isola, Diana Joseph, Kathy Lavigne, Paul Maccan, Scott MacDonald, Ghislaine Maisonneuve, Alex Mitchell, James Neiman, Antonio Padial, Aleatha Parker-Wood, Tasmina Patel, Nancy Raiken, Puny Sen, Mohamed Shoukry, Pat Solon, Susan Staker, Kathy Stone, Kevin Susco, Anne Szabla, Ginette Thibault, Erick Vera, Joan Vermeulen

Information Technology: Hemant Kumar Arora, Ian Day, Fergus Hammond, Shamus Henson, Den Jones, Tommy Khuu, Vivek Malik, John Mockett, Kirk Pollack, Rose Seng, Mosby Simmons, Gloria Swanson, Keith Thygerson, Alok Vij, Venkatesh Yadav

Packaging and Manufacturing: Mercedes Aguilar, Felicity Alvarez, Leticia Avila, Conor Carton, Tim Cobb, Paul Cohen, Mary Cusick, Jason Decker, Mark Eaglin, Denise Ellett, Daisy Freitas, Briana Gaines, Marla Gamboa, Jessica Gilson, Deb Hancock, Diana Harwood, Stephanie Heng, Maria Jeronimo, Trish Jessen, Beverly King, Van Lee, Yeng Kar Lim, Trish London, Tricia Macadaeg., Jacque Mahan, Erika Majewski, Ruth Manson, Linda Mitchell, Chris Moehrke, Lily Nguyen, Katie O'Neill, Thea Owen, Janie Paredes, Scott Perry, Cecilia Ramos, Monica Sainz, Ed Saler, Sheafe Smith, Sandra Stoecker, Suzanne Von Briesen, Gloria Williamson, Carolyn Young

Production Quality Engineering: Kaushik Agarwala, Areeb Ahmad, Anil Ahuja, Matt Baskett, Jason Blazick, Brenda Burden, Mary Gordon, Anh Lam, Charles Lasseter, Matthew Laun, Thomas Lin, Carson Lynch, Sounav Maikap, Jin Pae, Jason Prozora-Plien, E Ramalingam, Binny Sachdeva, Sanjay Singh, Mark Stevenson, Robert Wilson, Suying Yang

Adobe.com Web Team: Andy Anderson, Dawn Burrows, Yuko Chapman, Sarala Chekuri, Karen Cook, Vu Dinh, Daniel Dresser, John Falcon, Kevin Favro, Shirley Law, Lily Lee, Robelle Mancilla, Yukari Minoda, Belinda Nambooze, Ted Pierson, Vijaya Ramachandran, Todd Rosenberger, Soumalya Sengupta, Soumya Shankar, Jonathan Snyder, Jessica Virk, William West, Yoseif Whiteson, Lisa Wieland, Peter Yee