Spirit Folks Past and Present
Spirit wouldn’t be possible were it not for Open Source developers actively contributing their time and effort. Here are the folks, past and present, who are most active in Spirit development.
Joel de Guzman
Joel got into electronics and programming in the 80s because almost everything in music, his first love, is becoming electronic and digital. Back then, he used to build his own guitars, effect boxes and synths. He enjoys playing distortion-laden rock guitar, composes and produces his own music in his home studio.
In the 90s, he went to Japan and worked there as a software engineer. There, he learned C++ and immediately fell in love it. He’s still trying his best to master the language in all its immensity.
Joel is quite adept in writing code using modern C++ techniques such as template metaprogramming and C++ functional programming. He’s very happy and enthusiastic with his current job as a consultant and engineer at BoostPro Computing.
Recently, Joel got into building guitars again. You can see him in action at http://www.cycfi.com.
General Information
- Profession: Consultant at BoostPro Computing
- Expertise: Generic libraries and frameworks, using modern C++ techniques. Digital electronics hardware design
Personal Information
- Pizza: Everything on except anchovies and pineapple
- Hobbies:
- Musician and composer
- Electric/acoustic lead guitar
- Keyboard/synth
- MIDI/Digital music production.
- Website: http://www.cycfi.com
Hartmut Kaiser
After exceptionally successful and interesting years having worked in industrial software development, Hartmut more than ever enjoys working with modern software development technologies and techniques. His preferred field of interest is the complex interaction of modern compiler technologies, active libraries, and modern systems architectures, to enable the creation of high performance applications in powerful, though complex environments, such as distributed and grid computing, spatial information systems, high performance computing, and parser technologies. Working with students and teaching always has been his focus and over time, it has become a professional goal for him, which is why Hartmut is very happy to be an adjunct faculty at the Lousiana State University. He enjoys using and learning about modern C++ programming, such as template based generic and meta-programming techniques.
You can contact him by sending mail to: Hartmut.Kaiser [at] gmail [dot] com
General Information
- Adjunct faculty member at LSU in Baton Rouge
- Profession: Software development lead, Senior developer
- Expertise: generic libraries, parser technologies, high-performance and distrbuted computing, spatial data management, geo-information systems, C/C++ and other languages, user interfaces
Personal Information
- Hobbies: Jazz music, books (all kinds), green tea (favorite: Kanton), software development and design
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
François Barel
General Information
- Profession: software developer
- Expertise:
- Parsers, compilers, code generation
- Low-level stuff (reverse-engineering, device drivers, …)
Personal Information
- Pizza: the spicier it is, the happier I am!
- Hobbies
- metal music
- The Guild
- skiing
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.
Ben Hanson
MFC developer since 1994. Got tired of waiting for a C++ regex engine and so finally wrote ‘CDfaRegEx’ in 2004. Discovered boost and realised the jig was up and so developed ‘CLex’, which over time became lexertl and free of all MFC! Full of pride I brashly contacted the Spirit group in 2006 and Hartmut was kind enough to try out my library, which is now integrated with Spirit under his Boost.Lex front end. I would like to thank Hartmut for all the help and support he has given and continues to give me over the years.
Around 2004 I also wrote Notepad RE (http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/notepadre.aspx) again due to the prepostrous lack of regex support in Windows. See also CFilterEdit (http://www.codeproject.com/KB/edit/FilterEdit.aspx).
General Information
- Profession: Senior Software Developer
Personal Information
- Pizza: Most topping, no anchovies!
- Hobbies: Motorcycling, cycling, walking
- Website: http://www.benhanson.net
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
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
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- 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
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- Profession: Biochemist
- Expertise: Enzymology and metabolic modelling
Personal Information
- Pizza: Four-cheese, fresh cherry tomatoes and olives
- Hobbies:
- Programming
- Photography
- Books
- Travel
Dan Marsden
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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…
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