about_us.mdwn

   1 # Meet the Team
   2
   3 These are our current members
   4
   5 Also, check out [[The_Mission]].
   6
   7 ## [[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton|lkcl]]
   8
   9 * Hardware Experience: assembly-level programming, gate-level
  10   circuit design, PCB design, reverse-engineering, embedded systems
  11   design and programming, software engineering, standards development,
  12   libre project management and more.
  13 * Ethical Technology Specialist.  Identifies socio-economic imbalances and
  14   works out if there's an ethical way in which technology can help.  If that
  15   technology doesn't exist, creates it.
  16 * Interests: varied and including particle physics, Medieval and Folk music, and writing poems.
  17 * website: [[http://lkcl.net]]
  18 * github: doesn't have one (because github is a proprietary non-free service),
  19   runs his own git servers, manages projects (several), entirely in a libre
  20   fashion, including managing the server(s).
  21 * Availability: full-time
  22
  23 ## [[Yehowshua Immanuel]]
  24
  25 * Experience in HDL projects, PCB design, and drivers
  26 * Interests: Compilers, HDL Tooling, Signal Processing, Mathematics,
  27   Electromagnetics
  28 * Website: [[https://yehowshuaimmanuel.com]]
  29 * Github: [[https://github.com/BracketMaster]]
  30 * Availability: 6hrs/wk
  31
  32 ## [[Jacob Lifshay|programmerjake]]
  33
  34 * FOSS Software Developer, Hardware Designer, Original Author of Kazan (one of our GPU drivers, also a software-rendered Vulkan implementation that works on most CPUs)
  35 * Built a working RV32I CPU and VGA core that runs a 3D game in 3 weeks: [[https://github.com/programmerjake/rv32]]
  36 * Built an algebraic numbers library: https://crates.io/crates/algebraics
  37 * Built a (non-official) reference implementation of IEEE 754-2019 (binary floating-point): [[https://crates.io/crates/simple-soft-float]]
  38 * Interests: Computer Graphics, Compilers, Simulation, Rust-lang, Anime, Astrophysics, Electronics, Computer Design, Chemistry, Nuclear Physics, Cellular Automatons, Video Game Software Engineering, High-performance Computing
  39 * GitHub: [[https://github.com/programmerjake]]
  40 * Availability: full-time
  41
  42 ## [[Tobias Platen|tplaten]]
  43
  44 * Copyleft Software Developer, Hardware Designer and Reverse Engineer
  45 * Interests: varied and including speech synthesis and cosplay.
  46 * website: [[https://www.platen-software.de/tobias/]]
  47 * github: doesn't have one using notabug instead
  48   [[https://notabug.org/isengaara]]
  49 * Availability: Outside normal working hours.
  50
  51 ## Yann Guidon (whygee)
  52
  53 * Experience: Processor architecture : designer of
  54     F-CPU project since 1999 [[http://f-cpu.org]]
  55     YASEP (16- & 32-bits real-time controller)  [[http://yasep.org]]
  56     YGREC8 (8-bits microcontroller)   [[http://ygrec8.com]]
  57 * Interests: Designer of electronic circuits circuits for industrial
  58   and artistic applications with dedicated workshop for PCB prototyping
  59   with wide range of technologies Algorithmics, including data
  60   compression, signal processing (sound & picture), optimisations,
  61   design for test...
  62
  63 ## [[Michael Nolan|mnolan]]
  64
  65 * Experience/Interests: Hardware design, compiler design, formal
  66   verification, low level/embedded programming, RF electronics, amateur
  67   radio.
  68 * Website: [[https://n4abi.com]]
  69 * Github: [[https://github.com/C-Elegans]]
  70 * Availability: ~10hrs/wk (mostly MWF 9am-12pm Eastern Time)
  71
  72 ## Lauri Kasanen
  73
  74 * Embedded software engineer
  75 * Interests: niche platforms, embedded, servers, graphics
  76 * github: [[https://github.com/clbr]]
  77 * Availability: part-time
  78
  79 ## [[Veera Kumar|veera]]
  80
  81 * Software developer, programmer and small system administrator
  82 * Knowledge in using Redhat, Fedora, Debian and few others
  83 * Have experience building a custom Linux distribution based on LFS/CLFS
  84 * Experience in Shell, C, Awk, Perl, Python, Lua, HTML, CSS, PHP
  85 * Develop websites, run VPS on Linux
  86 * Build open source softwares from source and test and use it
  87 * Website [[http://www.vkten.in]]
  88 * Availability: part-time
  89
  90 ## [[Jock Tanner|jock_tanner]]
  91
  92 * Expertise: Python developer, full-stack web developer (6+ years)
  93 * My code: [[https://github.com/dmelnichuk/]], [[https://github.com/jock-tanner/]]
  94 * GNU/Linux user/administrator
  95 * Hobbies: electronics, real-time systems, digital music & sound processing, embedded systems, FPGA, retro computing
  96 * Availability: ~20hrs/week
  97 * Time zone: UTC+10:00
  98
  99 ## [[Alain Williams|addw]]
 100
 101 Alain's website: <http://phcomp.co.uk>
 102
 103 ## [[Cesar Strauss|Cesar_Strauss]]
 104
 105 * Experience: Data acquisition and control for scientific instruments
 106 * Programming of microcontrolers and FPGAs
 107 * Digital circuit design
 108 * Availability: Outside normal working hours.
 109
 110 ## [[Cole Poirier|cole]]
 111
 112 * Trying to learn and organize stuff
 113 * GitHub: [[https://github.com/colepoirier]]
 114 * Availability: full-time
 115
 116 ## [[Sanjay A Menon|Sanjay]]
 117
 118 * Skills: Verilog, C/C++, Python, TCL & PERL
 119 * Github Profile: [[https://github.com/Sanjay-A-Menon]]
 120 * LinkedIn Profile: [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjay-menon-91791815a]]
 121 * Availability: ~6hrs/week
 122
 123 ## [[Samuel A Falvo II]]
 124
 125 * Experience in amateur HDL projects (Kestrel-3 homebrew computer
 126    concept; VDC-II core), Verilog (but not System Verilog), newbie at PCB
 127    design.  Extensive experience with test-driven development, Python,
 128    assembly language for a wide variety of CPUs including RISC-V, and Forth.
 129    Very comfortable with nMigen, but still learning things.
 130 * Interests: Forth, Common Lisp, Scheme, assembly language,
 131    {Astro|Semiconductor-}physics, astronomy, martial arts, furry (character: black dragon; name: "Vertigo").
 132 * Websites:
 133   - https://hackaday.io/project/170581-vdc-ii ,
 134   - https://kestrelcomputer.github.io/kestrel/ ,
 135   - http://chiselapp.com/user/kc5tja/repository/kestrel-3/index
 136 * Public Repositories:
 137   - https://github.com/sam-falvo ,
 138   - https://github.com/kestrelcomputer
 139 * Availability: approximately 20 hrs/wk, circumstances permitting.
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