# 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.