Peter Bergström is originally from Sweden. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when he was a teenager and has been enjoying living there ever since.
Peter got his undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Economics from UC Santa Cruz and a graduate degree in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University.
For his graduate thesis, he wrote an experimental application, PaperCube, which explored a new way to navigate academic citation networks using web-based visualizations.
After school, he worked at Apple as a user interface engineer at MobileMe (formerly .Mac) leading the development of the Calendar web client. Peter then developed apps for eBay and Apple when he was at Strobe.
Currently, he is the engineering lead for the iOS consumer team at Groupon.
When he is not at a keyboard, he can usually be found biking or running the plentiful hills of the Bay Area.
Mitch Oliver is a Software Developer living with his wife and kids in Cincinnati, OH. He has enjoyed tinkering with computers since he was 9 years old. As time went by, he worked with languages from BASIC to C++ to Ruby, across the OS spectrum. These days, he whiles away his time mining Rubies and brewing Coffeescript for Roadtrippers.com.
Dave Porter is a rich web application developer and SproutCore core team member based in Boston, Massachusetts, where he lives with his lovely wife and an exuberant dog. He began experimenting with SproutCore with Version 1.0, and has been developing with it in earnest since 2010. He has contributed features, bug fixes, and memory improvements and is spearheading the discussion on several upcoming API overhauls. In early 2012, he left the strictures of his Fortune-500 developer job and struck out on his own, freelancing for companies in San Francisco, LA, Vancouver, Toronto, New York, and India. When not working, he enjoys globetrotting, eating adventurously, and writing.
Ido Ran started to play with computers around kindergarten, and did professional work at the age of 15. He works in different and interesting teams, doing work ranging from database-stored-procedures to hiding information inside pictures.
He is always looking for new technologies and new ways to work in teams. That's how he keeps himself sharp and ready for his next challenge.
He is happily married and has 3 dogs, who also like to learn about programming.