KRIS BELL is a Scottish pirate and wannabe musician, part-time photographer, avid traveler, open source advocate, miscreant techie dweeb, and a principal Tango contributor. He enjoys swimming, cycling, sailing, and occasional hikes, and recently took up rock climbing. Previously, he dabbled in a bit of car racing and skydiving, and once took a flying-trapeze course (which served only to cement his vocation of choice). He currently lives in California, though he hails from the Scottish west coast and has a dodgy set of bagpipes to remind him of home.
Kris has a varied background in engineering and architecture, spanning application servers to RAD tool sets, embedded operating systems to graphics engines, workflow to high-performance clustering and failover substrata. Some commercial systems he has designed/built include enterprise and Internet application platforms, factory-automation systems, carrier-grade middleware, immersive-environment simulation, and crazy interactive clothing. In a different age, he would probably have been a steam-locomotive engineer, a swashbuckling Jolly Roger, or a funky bell-ringer.
LARS IVAR IGESUND holds an MSc in Computer Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and was involved in the introductory programming course team at the university. Outside the university, he has worked with network administration and support in both public service and private sector, and helped develop 3D graphic systems in C/C++. He is currently selling consultant services through his own company, Igesund Enterprise Software, doing both D and Java projects. Lars Ivar has been involved in the D community since 2003 and has been part of the Tango project lead team since 2006.
SEAN KELLY has more than 15 years of experience with C++ and several other programming languages. He is cofounder of the Tango standard library for the open source D programming language. Sean has reviewed articles and books on C++, such as Imperfect C++ by Matthew Wilson. A lifelong gamer, he designed and developed a Neverwinter Nights add-on that provides dynamic interserver portaling and event propagation. Sean currently works for Advent Software and lives with his wife and three cats in Concord, California.
Mike Parker, originally from Atlanta, Georgia, found himself in the Republic of Korea as a U.S. Army medic in the summer of 1991. After volunteering for two more tours in Korea, he left the Army in 1994 to teach English in Seoul. In the intervening years, he has taught English in a variety of environments and has occasionally worked in different capacities for U.S. government contractors in Korea.
In the late 1990s, Mike took up game programming as a hobby. Eventually, his passion for software development expanded beyond games, and he secured a series of Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) web application development contracts with several small Korean companies. He discovered D in 2003, and a few months later, created the Derelict project at dsource.org. He became involved with Tango in the fall of 2006.
Currently, Mike is developing his first commercial computer game. He continues to teach English part time in Seoul, Korea, where he lives with his wife Mi Kyoung and their dogs Charlie, Mini, Joey, and Happy.