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 ## [[Michael Nolan|mnolan]]
  55
  56 * Experience/Interests: Hardware design, compiler design, formal
  57   verification, low level/embedded programming, RF electronics, amateur
  58   radio.
  59 * Website: [[https://n4abi.com]]
  60 * Github: [[https://github.com/C-Elegans]]
  61 * Availability: ~10hrs/wk (mostly MWF 9am-12pm Eastern Time)
  62
  63 ## Lauri Kasanen
  64
  65 * Embedded software engineer
  66 * Interests: niche platforms, embedded, servers, graphics
  67 * github: [[https://github.com/clbr]]
  68 * Availability: part-time
  69
  70 ## [[Veera Kumar|veera]]
  71
  72 * Software developer, programmer and small system administrator
  73 * Knowledge in using Redhat, Fedora, Debian and few others
  74 * Have experience building a custom Linux distribution based on LFS/CLFS
  75 * Experience in Shell, C, Awk, Perl, Python, Lua, HTML, CSS, PHP
  76 * Develop websites, run VPS on Linux
  77 * Build open source softwares from source and test and use it
  78 * Website [[http://www.vkten.in]]
  79 * Availability: part-time
  80
  81 ## [[Jock Tanner|jock_tanner]]
  82
  83 * Expertise: Python developer, full-stack web developer (6+ years)
  84 * My code: [[https://github.com/dmelnichuk/]], [[https://github.com/jock-tanner/]]
  85 * GNU/Linux user/administrator
  86 * Hobbies: electronics, real-time systems, digital music & sound processing, embedded systems, FPGA, retro computing
  87 * Availability: ~20hrs/week
  88 * Time zone: UTC+10:00
  89
  90 ## [[Alain Williams|addw]]
  91
  92 Alain's website: <http://phcomp.co.uk>
  93
  94 ## [[Cesar Strauss|Cesar_Strauss]]
  95
  96 * Experience: Data acquisition and control for scientific instruments
  97 * Programming of microcontrolers and FPGAs
  98 * Digital circuit design
  99 * Availability: Outside normal working hours.
 100
 101 ## [[Cole Poirier|cole]]
 102
 103 * Trying to learn and organize stuff
 104 * GitHub: [[https://github.com/colepoirier]]
 105 * Availability: full-time
 106
 107 ## [[Sanjay A Menon|Sanjay]]
 108
 109 * Skills: Verilog, C/C++, Python, TCL & PERL
 110 * Github Profile: [[https://github.com/Sanjay-A-Menon]]
 111 * LinkedIn Profile: [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjay-menon-91791815a]]
 112 * Availability: ~6hrs/week
 113
 114 ## [[Samuel A Falvo II]]
 115
 116 * Experience in amateur HDL projects (Kestrel-3 homebrew computer
 117    concept; VDC-II core), Verilog (but not System Verilog), newbie at PCB
 118    design.  Extensive experience with test-driven development, Python,
 119    assembly language for a wide variety of CPUs including RISC-V, and Forth.
 120    Very comfortable with nMigen, but still learning things.
 121 * Interests: Forth, Common Lisp, Scheme, assembly language,
 122    {Astro|Semiconductor-}physics, astronomy, martial arts, furry (character: black dragon; name: "Vertigo").
 123 * Websites:
 124   - https://hackaday.io/project/170581-vdc-ii ,
 125   - https://kestrelcomputer.github.io/kestrel/ ,
 126   - http://chiselapp.com/user/kc5tja/repository/kestrel-3/index
 127 * Public Repositories:
 128   - https://github.com/sam-falvo ,
 129   - https://github.com/kestrelcomputer
 130 * Availability: approximately 20 hrs/wk, circumstances permitting.
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