# Portal Network Contributors - Portal Network Team: - Piper Merriam: https://github.com/pipermerriam - Protocol designer and lead researcher - Jason Carver: https://github.com/carver/ - Lead developer on Trin client - Protocol development and research - Nick Gheorghita: https://github.com/njgheorghita - Full time developer on Trin client - Jacob Kaufmann: https://github.com/jacobkaufmann - Apprenticeship Program - Full time developer on Trin client - Major specification contributions - Ognyan Genev: https://github.com/ogenev - Apprenticeship Program - Full time developer on Trin client - Mike Ferris: https://github.com/mrferris - Apprenticeship Program - Full time developer on Trin client - EthereumJS Team: - Andrew Day: https://github.com/acolytec3 - Lead developer of "Ultralight" client - Scotty Poi: https://github.com/ScottyPoi - Developer on Ultralight client - Status Team: Fluffy Client - Kim De Mey: https://github.com/kdeme - Full time developer on Fluffy client - Protocol development - Contributions to specifications - Konrad Staniec: https://github.com/KonradStaniec - Full time developer on Fluffy client - Minor contributions to specifications - 3rd Party - Keenan Nemetz: https://github.com/nasdf - Apprenticeship Program - Research and Experimental implementation of using IPFS and IPLD for persistant reliable storage of Ethereum data - https://github.com/valist-io/leo - Chee Chyuan: https://github.com/chee-chyuan - Minor contributions to specifications - Minor contributions to Trin client - Apprenticeship program - Jin Huang: https://github.com/jinfwhuang - Apprenticeship program - Research and experimental work into beacon chain applications - Contributions are not insignificant, but they are also highly experimental towards future work that may or may not happen. - Victor Wei: https://github.com/victor-wei126 - Apprenticeship Program - Minor contributions to specifications - Minor contributions to Trin client - Hans Martin: https://github.com/hmrtn - Apprenticeship Program - Minor contributions to Trin client - Sam Wilson: https://github.com/SamWilsn - Adding him because he was one of the original people who helped me a lot in imagining what this thing might look like and figuring out what problems needed to be solved. He hasn't been an active contributor to the project but giving him a very small bit of credit feels appropriate.