Spirit Folks Past and Present

Joel de Guzman

General Information

• Profession: Consultant at www.boost-consulting.com
• Expertise: Generic libraries and frameworks, using modern C++ techniques. Digital electronics hardware design

Personal Information

• Pizza: Everything on except anchovies and pineapple
• Hobbies:
  • Compose and play music
  • Electric/accoustic lead guitar
  • Keyboard/synth
  • MIDI/Digital music production.

Dan Nuffer

General Information

• Profession: Software Engineer for Caldera's Volution Manager.
• Expertise: All sorts of things.

Personal Information

• Pizza: Hawaiian (canadian bacon and pineapple)
• Hobbies:
  • Writing C++ code
  • Reading compiler books
  • Watching and recording Star Trek
  • Mountain Biking.

Hartmut Kaiser

General Information

• Profession: Software development lead, Senior developer
• Expertise:
  • Spatial data management
  • Geo-information systems
  • C/C++ and others
  • User interface

Personal Information

• Pizza: Everything except fish
• Hobbies:
  • Jazz music
  • Books (all kinds)
  • Black tea (favorite: Assam)
  • Software development and design

Martijn van der Lee

General Information

• Profession: OS/390 Infrastructure programmer
• Expertise: C/C++, PHP, MySQL, HTML, Apache, PhotoShop, PL/I, Rexx.

Personal Information

• Pizza: Frutti (with mushrooms and lotsa cheese)
• Hobbies:
  • Playing guitar (metal, classical, anything not in the middle).
  • The Ditto project at http://ditto.sourceforge.net
  • Graphics programming (PhotoShop plug-ins and experimental stuff).
  • Game programming (still learning).

You can visit me at http://www.vanderlee.com

John (EBo) David

General Information

• Profession: Graduate Research Assistant in Ecology
• Expertise: C/C++, PHP, MySQL, HTML, Apache, PhotoShop, PL/I, Rexx.

Personal Information

• Pizza: No pizza for me! I'm allergic to WHEAT... just give me the toppings ;-)

Juan Carlos Arevalo-Baeza

General Information

• Profession: Senior Design Engineer at Microsoft Games Studios
• Expertise: Programming (several flavors of Assembler, Turbo Pascal, C, C++), computer graphics, computer games in general.

Personal Information

• Pizza: There was this chicken one I tried once that was killer.
• Hobbies: Programming :-P Volleyball. Bicycle. Avid SF reader.

You can visit me at http://www.JCABs-Rumblings.com/JCAB.html

Martin Wille

General Information

• Profession: Software Developer
• Expertise: >=10 years in C, C++ on Unix, MacOs some other programming languages

Personal Information

• Pizza: No pizza for me
• Hobbies:
  • C++ programming
  • Wine (proud owner of a few bottles of Penfolds Grange ;-)) Planning to build a wine website, never actually starting it.

Peter Simons

General Information

• Profession: Computer Program Writer
• Expertise:
  • Cryptography
  • Computer Networks
  • Theoretical Computer Science, C++

Personal Information

• Pizza: Vegetarian (no meat for me)
• Hobbies: Swimming, Cycling, and Cats. Oh ... and Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll, of course. :-)

Jeff Westfahl

General Information

• Profession: Software Engineer
• Expertise:
  • C++ in the kernel (Windows, Linux, whatever)
  • cross-platform device driver development
  • GPIB and IEEE-488.2 over various interfaces

Personal Information

• Pizza: Pepperoni and Italian sausage, nothing fancy...
• Hobbies: Playing with C++, reading

João Abecasis

General Information

• Profession: Biochemist
• Expertise: Enzymology and metabolic modelling

Personal Information

• Pizza: Four-cheese, fresh cherry tomatoes and olives
• Hobbies:
  • Programming
  • Photography
  • Books
  • Travel

Dan Marsden

General Information

• Profession: Software developer
• Expertise: C++. Server side application development. Lots of other stuff.

Personal Information

• Pizza: That onion thing in Aspen
• Hobbies:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Functional programming
  • Watching football (the one with the round ball)

Nicola Musatti

General Information

• Profession: Software Craftsman
• Expertise: Software architecture & design, programming in C++, Python
        & other languages

Personal Information

• Pizza: The real thing (I'm italian, you see? ;-)
• Hobbies:
  • Contributing to Open Source projects
  • Reading novels in several languages
  • Good food and wine

Tobias Schwinger

General Information

• Profession: Software developer
• Expertise: Design and Implementation of Applications, Libraries and Algorithms

Personal Information

• Pizza: The main thing is that the toppings keep varying :-)
• Hobbies:
  • Music (listening to, composing, and playing)
  • wearing my bathrobe...

Carl Barron

General Information

• Profession: Software developer

Personal Information

• Pizza: The main thing is that the toppings keep varying :-)
• Hobbies:
  • photography and computer graphics
  • modern C++ techniques
  • parsing
  • numerical analysis