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I'm not an official dev, but since I plan on writing a good many more plugins this year, I'll respond.

Mark Whittemore.

I'm a 1988 graduate of Clarkson University, in upstate NY. Clarkson was one of the first, if not the very first U.S. university to distribute computers to all incoming Freshmen (starting my freshman year). I walked into the Hockey area, which was STACKED very high in the middle of the area with both computers and monitors, and that kicked off my formal computer education. That was not my start with computers, but nearly so. Before that it was just a TI/99-4A home PC and before that a little goofing with an original apple computer.

I was bound to become a programmer as my dad had been into computers since before he worked on the NASA Apollo mission in a data processing role. (I was born in Daytona Beach not far from Cape Canaveral). By the time I went away to college, dad was making a good living as a self-employed computer consultant in NY. So bits, and bytes, punch cards, bugs, debugging and IBM were the most common dinner topics. Yep ... pappy could sure talk at us a lot LOL. We tried to undestand a bit of what he would be yacking about. LOL. On top of that exposure to computers, one of my best friends, a sailing and weight lifting buddy from age 14 onwards was a top notch AI programmer, John F. Lemmer (you can google him). He would tell me all about the DoD contracts he was working on and would show me Evans and Sutherland displays and $100,000 Symbolics LISP machines and all manner of really odd computer hardware from time to time when I would visit him at Work.

At Clarkson University, I learned a neat language, ISETL which somehow remotely reminds me of Erlang.

Upon graduating from College I want directly to work as a DoD contractor (junior programmer position) working with Lemmer on pretty interesting battle management systems. My main role was in developing graphics displays and reports depicting things like "Threat Envelopes". I coded various image processing transformations for display of DTED data (Digital Elevation Model) data, annotated with infrastructure data like railroads, roads, lake and minor bodies of water etc.

These days, 9 AM to 5:30 PM, I'm a software developer for On2 Corporation, a leading company in the video compression industry.

I still live in Upstate NY. Enjoy Hockey, Caving, Hiking, Running, and a lot of other outdoor sports and activities.