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: >20 hrs/wk
  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