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 ## [[Jacob Lifshay|programmerjake]]
  24
  25 * 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)
  26 * Built a working RV32I CPU and VGA core that runs a 3D game in 3 weeks: [[https://github.com/programmerjake/rv32]]
  27 * Built an algebraic numbers library: https://crates.io/crates/algebraics
  28 * Built a (non-official) reference implementation of IEEE 754-2019 (binary floating-point): [[https://crates.io/crates/simple-soft-float]]
  29 * Interests: Computer Graphics, Compilers, Simulation, Rust-lang, Anime, Astrophysics, Electronics, Computer Design, Chemistry, Nuclear Physics, Cellular Automatons, Video Game Software Engineering, High-performance Computing
  30 * GitHub: [[https://github.com/programmerjake]]
  31 * Availability: full-time
  32
  33 ## [[Tobias Platen|tplaten]]
  34
  35 * Copyleft Software Developer, Hardware Designer and Reverse Engineer
  36 * Interests: varied and including speech synthesis and cosplay.
  37 * website: [[https://www.platen-software.de/tobias/]]
  38 * github: doesn't have one using notabug instead
  39   [[https://notabug.org/isengaara]]
  40 * Availability: Outside normal working hours.
  41
  42 ## Yann Guidon (whygee)
  43
  44 * Experience: Processor architecture : designer of
  45     F-CPU project since 1999 [[http://f-cpu.org]]
  46     YASEP (16- & 32-bits real-time controller)  [[http://yasep.org]]
  47     YGREC8 (8-bits microcontroller)   [[http://ygrec8.com]]
  48 * Interests: Designer of electronic circuits circuits for industrial
  49   and artistic applications with dedicated workshop for PCB prototyping
  50   with wide range of technologies Algorithmics, including data
  51   compression, signal processing (sound & picture), optimisations,
  52   design for test...
  53
  54 ## [[Lauri Kasanen|lauri]]
  55
  56 * Embedded software engineer
  57 * Interests: niche platforms, embedded, servers, graphics
  58 * github: [[https://github.com/clbr]]
  59 * Availability: part-time
  60
  61 ## [[Veera Kumar|veera]]
  62
  63 * Software developer, programmer and small system administrator
  64 * Knowledge in using Redhat, Fedora, Debian and few others
  65 * Have experience building a custom Linux distribution based on LFS/CLFS
  66 * Experience in Shell, C, Awk, Perl, Python, Lua, HTML, CSS, PHP
  67 * Develop websites, run VPS on Linux
  68 * Build open source softwares from source and test and use it
  69 * Website [[http://www.vkten.in]]
  70 * Availability: part-time
  71
  72 ## [[Jock Tanner|jock_tanner]]
  73
  74 * Expertise: Python developer, full-stack web developer (6+ years)
  75 * My code: [[https://github.com/dmelnichuk/]], [[https://github.com/jock-tanner/]]
  76 * GNU/Linux user/administrator
  77 * Hobbies: electronics, real-time systems, digital music & sound processing, embedded systems, FPGA, retro computing
  78 * Availability: ~20hrs/week
  79 * Time zone: UTC+10:00
  80
  81 ## [[Alain Williams|addw]]
  82
  83 Alain's website: <http://phcomp.co.uk>
  84
  85 ## [[Cesar Strauss|Cesar_Strauss]]
  86
  87 * Experience: Data acquisition and control for scientific instruments
  88 * Programming of microcontrolers and FPGAs
  89 * Digital circuit design
  90 * Availability: Outside normal working hours.
  91
  92 ## [[Cole Poirier|cole]]
  93
  94 * Trying to learn and organize stuff
  95 * GitHub: [[https://github.com/colepoirier]]
  96 * Availability: full-time
  97
  98 ## [[Sanjay A Menon|Sanjay]]
  99
 100 * Skills: Verilog, C/C++, Python, TCL & PERL
 101 * Github Profile: [[https://github.com/Sanjay-A-Menon]]
 102 * LinkedIn Profile: [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjay-menon-91791815a]]
 103 * Availability: ~6hrs/week
 104
 105 ## [[Samuel A Falvo II]]
 106
 107 * Experience in amateur HDL projects (Kestrel-3 homebrew computer
 108    concept; VDC-II core), Verilog (but not System Verilog), newbie at PCB
 109    design.  Extensive experience with test-driven development, Python,
 110    assembly language for a wide variety of CPUs including RISC-V, and Forth.
 111    Very comfortable with nMigen, but still learning things.
 112 * Interests: Forth, Common Lisp, Scheme, assembly language,
 113    {Astro|Semiconductor-}physics, astronomy, martial arts, furry (character: black dragon; name: "Vertigo").
 114 * Websites:
 115   - https://hackaday.io/project/170581-vdc-ii ,
 116   - https://kestrelcomputer.github.io/kestrel/ ,
 117   - http://chiselapp.com/user/kc5tja/repository/kestrel-3/index
 118 * Public Repositories:
 119   - https://github.com/sam-falvo ,
 120   - https://github.com/kestrelcomputer
 121 * Availability: approximately 20 hrs/wk, circumstances permitting.
 122
 123 ## [[Alex Oliva|lxo]]
 124
 125 * Experience: GCC, binutils, glibc, GNU autotools, Free Software activism.
 126 * website: [[https://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/]]
 127 * Availability: 10+hrs/week
 128
 129 ## [[Richard Wilbur|rwilbur]]
 130
 131 * Interests:  Libre in hardware and software, low-power, efficiency
 132 * Hardware Experience:  High-speed digital(comb. & FSM), PLD(PALASM), FPGA(VHDL), low-power, analog video, I2C, DDC, PCI, RS-232/422/485, SOC board bring-up, PCB layout, VLSI gate design
 133 * Software Experience:  optimization, 3D geometry transformations, simulation, atomic & multi-threaded, PCI auto-configuration, drivers (serial HW, MPEG encoder/decoder(TS generation/consumption), GPS), OpenGL vertex shader, SQL db, network protocol design, test-driven dev, PCI BIOS, fixed-point division
 134 * Languages:  C, C++, Python, asm, bash, PERL, BASIC, Forth, ruby
 135 * Architectures:  6502/10, 68k, x86_64, PPC, i960, SPARC
 136 * Website:  [[https://launchpad.net/~richard-wilbur]]
 137 * Availability:  10+hrs/week, more is negotiable
 138 * Timezone:  UTC-07:00 (DST UTC-06:00, 2nd Sun of Mar-1st Sun of Nov)
 139
 140 ## Object Automation
 141
 142 ### [[oa/madan]]
 143
 144 * Experience: Programming in Python and Knowledge of ML algorithms and NLP
 145 * Availability: 5 hours per week
 146 * Statistician
 147
 148
 149 ### [[oa/gautham]]
 150
 151 * Interests: Digital System Design, PCB Layout, Programming, Machine Learning
 152 * Programming Languages: Verilog, C, C++, Python
 153 * Availability: ~8-10 hours/week
 154
 155 ### [[oa/adithya]]
 156
 157 TODO, Adithya
 158
 159 ### [[oa/Niranjan]]
 160
 161 * Interests: Digital System Design, PCB Layout, Programming
 162 * Programming Languages: Verilog, C, C++, Python
 163 * Availability: ~8-10 hours/week
 164
 165 ### [[oa/Abhishek]]
 166
 167 * Interests: HPC, embedded systems, Digital system design
 168 * Programming Languages: C, Python, Java, VHDL
 169 * Availability: ~8-10 hours/week
 170
 171 ### [[oa/Sree Rekha K P]]
 172
 173 * Interests: Embedded systems, Digital Electronics
 174 * Programming Languages: Verilog, 8051 Microcontroller, C
 175 * Availability: ~ 3-5 hours/week
 176
 177 ### [[oa/Akshara S]]
 178
 179 * Interests: Embedded systems, Analog Electronics
 180 * Programming Languages: C, Python, Verilog
 181 * Availability: ~ 3-4 hours/week
 182
 183 ### [[oa/Madan]]
 184
 185 * Experience: Programming in Python and Knowledge of ML algorithms and NLP
 186 * Availability: 5 hours per week
 187 * Statistician
 188
 189 ### [[oa/sparsha]]
 190
 191 TODO
 192
 193 ## 3mdeb
 194
 195 ### [[3mdeb/ghostmansd]]
 196
 197 * Interests: OS development, fishing, classical antiquity
 198 * Languages: C, C++, Python
 199 * FW experience: system programming
 200 * Availability: depends on a week (0..10+hrs/week)