Arch Linux Developers

This is a list of the current Arch Linux Developers. They maintain the [core] and [extra] package repositories in addition to doing any other developer duties.

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Aaron Griffin

Alias: phrakture
Email: aaron.archlinux.org
Other Contact: jabber:aaronmgriffin@gmail.com, irc://irc.freenode.net:phrakture
PGP Key: Unknown
Roles: Cat Herder, Package Maintainer, Early Userspace, Pacman Developer
Website: http://www.phraktured.net
Occupation: Programmer/Developer
YOB: 1982
Location: United States Chicago, IL, USA
Languages: English, Gibberish
Interests: fantasy/scifi novels, anime, board games, gymnastics, martial arts
Favorite Distros: ArchLinux, grml, Gobolinux, ttylinux
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Allan McRae

Alias: Allan
Email: allan.archlinux.org
Other Contact: jabber:allan.mcrae@jabber.org, irc://irc.freenode.net:allanbrokeit
PGP Key: 0xEAE999BD
Roles: Toolchain Maintainer, Pacman Developer
Website: http://allanmcrae.com/
Occupation: Statistical Geneticist
YOB: 1980
Location: Australia Brisbane, Australia
Languages: English
Interests: Anime, Martial Arts, Nature, Poker
Favorite Distros: Arch, LFS
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Andrea Scarpino

Alias: bash
Email: andrea.archlinux.org
Other Contact: http://andreascarpino.it/contacts/
PGP Key: 0xD30DB0AD
Roles: KDE SC Maintainer, Planet, srcpac, Arch Linux Italia
Website: http://andreascarpino.it
Occupation: Student, Developer
YOB: 1988
Location: Italy Lecce, Italy
Languages: Italian, English, German
Interests: Software development, girls, underwater fishing
Favorite Distros: Arch Linux
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Andreas Radke

Alias: andyrtr
Email: andyrtr.archlinux.org
Other Contact: diaspora: https://joindiaspora.com/people/26725, irc://irc.freenode.net:andyrtr
PGP Key: 0x0F2A092B
Roles: Package Maintainer
Website:
Occupation: Statutary accident insurance
YOB: 1975
Location: Germany Magdeburg, Germany
Languages: German, English
Interests: Packaging, Gym, Family+dog
Favorite Distros: Arch64
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Dan McGee

Alias: toofishes
Email: dan.archlinux.org
Other Contact: irc://irc.freenode.net:toofishes
PGP Key: 0xF53A76ED
Roles: Pacman Developer, Website Maintainer
Website: http://www.toofishes.net
Occupation: Software Developer
YOB: 1985
Location: United States Chicago, IL, USA
Languages: English
Interests: Skiing, Ultimate Frisbee, Beach Volleyball, Sports, Travel
Favorite Distros: Arch, OpenWRT, grml
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Daniel Isenmann

Alias: ise
Email: daniel.archlinux.org
Other Contact: irc://irc.freenode.net:ise jabber:ise@jabber.org
PGP Key: 0xB4440678
Roles: Mono maintainer and some other packages
Website: http://isenmann.blogspot.com
Occupation: Software Developer
YOB: 1980
Location: Germany Near Karlsruhe, Germany
Languages: German, English
Interests: Climbing, MTB, Computers, Reading, Photography
Favorite Distros: Arch
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Dave Reisner

Alias: falconindy
Email: dreisner.archlinux.org
Other Contact: irc://irc.freenode.net:falconindy
PGP Key: 0xF56C0C53
Roles: Pacman Developer, Package Monkey
Website: http://blog.falconindy.com
Occupation: Systems Administrator
YOB: 1983
Location: United States New York, US
Languages: English
Interests: Linux, Programming, Anime
Favorite Distros: Arch, *BSD
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Dieter Plaetinck

Alias: Dieter_be
Email: dieter.archlinux.org
Other Contact: dieterplaetinck@jabber.org, irc://irc.freenode.net:Dieterbe
PGP Key: 0x1985A992
Roles: Release Engineer, installation tools developer/maintainer
Website: http://dieter.plaetinck.be
Occupation: System engineer
YOB: 1985
Location: Belgium Ghent, Belgium
Languages: English, Dutch
Interests: drums, music, open source
Favorite Distros: Arch
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Eric Bélanger

Alias: Snowman
Email: eric.archlinux.org
Other Contact: irc://irc.freenode.net:_Snowman_, jabber:Snowman007@jabber.org
PGP Key: 0x9205AC90
Roles: Package Maintainer
Website: http://www.astro.umontreal.ca/~belanger/
Occupation: Student/Solar Physics
YOB: 1977
Location: Canada Montréal, Canada
Languages: French, English
Interests: Physics, Computers
Favorite Distros: Arch, Slackware
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Evangelos Foutras

Alias: foutrelis
Email: evangelos@foutrelis.com
Other Contact: irc://irc.freenode.net:foutrelis
PGP Key: 0xA9999C34
Roles: Developer/TU
Website: http://foutrelis.com/
Occupation: Student
YOB: 1988
Location: Greece Athens, Greece
Languages: Greek, English
Interests: Computers, Cookies
Favorite Distros: Arch, Debian
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Florian Pritz

Alias: Bluewind
Email: bluewind@xinu.at
Other Contact: jabber: bluewind@xinu.at, irc://irc.freenode.org:bluewind
PGP Key: 0x4CE1C13E
Roles: Trusted User
Website: http://bluewind.at
Occupation:
YOB: 1991
Location: Austria St. Pölten, Austria
Languages: German, English, little bit French
Interests: Servers, Photography, Programming
Favorite Distros: Arch
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Gaetan Bisson

Alias: vesath
Email: bisson.archlinux.org
Other Contact:
PGP Key: 0x00F0D0F0
Roles: Developer
Website: http://www.normalesup.org/~bisson/
Occupation: Cryptographer, computational mathematician
YOB: 1984
Location: Australia Sydney, Australia
Languages: English, French, a bit of German and Japanese
Interests: Sailing, Game of Go, Japan, IRL Trolling
Favorite Distros: Arch?
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Giovanni Scafora

Alias: giovanni
Email: giovanni.archlinux.org
Other Contact: irc://irc.freenode.net:giovanni
PGP Key: 0xF04569AE
Roles: Package Maintainer, Arch Linux Italia
Website: http://www.archlinux.it
Occupation: Developer
YOB: 1969
Location: Italy Livorno, Italy
Languages: Italian, English, French
Interests: Family, Computers, Music, Books
Favorite Distros: Arch Linux, Slackware
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Guillaume Alaux

Alias: galaux, wikimig
Email: guillaume.archlinux.org
Other Contact: irc://irc.freenode.net:galaux
PGP Key: 0x215B37AD
Roles: Developer
Website: http://www.alaux.net
Occupation: Java EE and Open Source Developer
YOB: 1980
Location: France Paris, France
Languages: French, English
Interests: IT, stupid jokes, Music, History... and everything that's interesting
Favorite Distros: Arch Linux, Debian
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Ionuț Mircea Bîru

Alias: wonder/ioni
Email: ibiru.archlinux.org
Other Contact: irc://irc.freenode.net:wonder/ioni
PGP Key: 0x615137BC
Roles: Developer
Website: http://archlinux.me/wonder/
Occupation: Student
YOB: 1986
Location: Romania Bucharest, România
Languages: Romanian, English
Interests: Networking, Programming, Computers, Music
Favorite Distros: Arch, Debian
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Jakob Wadsager

Alias: jakobw
Email: jakobw.archlinux.org
Other Contact: irc://irc.freenode.net:jakobw
PGP Key: 0xAF924463
Roles: Mirror administrator
Website:
Occupation: Student
YOB:
Location: Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark
Languages: Danish, German, English
Interests:
Favorite Distros: Arch
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Jan de Groot

Alias: JGC
Email: jgc.archlinux.org
Other Contact: irc://irc.freenode.net:JGC
PGP Key: 0x3B94FA10
Roles: Package Maintainer
Website: http://bugs.archlinux.org
Occupation: SysAdmin / Programmer
YOB: 1982
Location: Netherlands Langezwaag, The Netherlands
Languages: Dutch, English
Interests: Computers, Automobiles
Favorite Distros: Arch, Debian, OpenBSD
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Jan Steffens

Alias: heftig
Email: heftig.archlinux.org
Other Contact: jabber:jan.steffens@gmail.com irc://irc.freenode.net:heftig
PGP Key: 0x4FA415FA
Roles: Developer
Website:
Occupation: BCS Student @ HBRS
YOB: 1988
Location: Germany Rheinbach, Germany
Languages: German, English
Interests: Programming, Gaming, Fantasy Novels
Favorite Distros: Arch, Fedora
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Jürgen Hötzel

Alias: juergen
Email: juergen@hoetzel.info
Other Contact: irc://irc.freenode.net:juergen_1974
PGP Key: 0x589874AB
Roles: Package Maintainer
Website: http://www.hoetzel.info
Occupation: SysAdmin / Programmer
YOB: 1974
Location: Germany Frankfurt, Germany
Languages: German, English
Interests: Computers, Sports: Running
Favorite Distros: Arch, Redhat
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Justin Davis

Alias: juster
Email: jrcd83()gmail!com
Other Contact:
PGP Key: 0x983D4366
Roles: perl package stuff
Website: http://juster.us
Occupation: Student
YOB: 1983
Location: United States Maryland, USA
Languages: American. Very little Spanish and French.
Interests: pencil sketching, yoga, reading, music, banjo pickin'
Favorite Distros: ArchLinux, OpenBSD, plan9
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Pierre Schmitz

Alias: pierre
Email: pierre@archlinux.de
Other Contact: irc://irc.freenode.net:pierres
PGP Key: 0x9741E8AC
Roles: Backend, Website and Package Maintainer
Website: https://pierre-schmitz.com
Occupation:
YOB: 1982
Location: Germany Bonn, Germany
Languages: German, English
Interests: yes
Favorite Distros:
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Ray Rashif

Alias: schivmeister
Email: schiv.archlinux.org
Other Contact: jabber:$Alias@gmail.com, irc://irc.freenode.net:schiv
PGP Key: 0xC0711BF1
Roles: Package Maintainer
Website: http://schivmeister.wordpress.com/
Occupation: Self-employed
YOB: 1989
Location: Singapore Singapore, Singapore
Languages: Singlish, English, Malay, Bengali, Hindi
Interests: Prehistory, Linguistics, Anthropology
Favorite Distros: IRIX?
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Rémy Oudompheng

Alias: remy
Email: remy.archlinux.org
Other Contact:
PGP Key: 0x2D1493D2
Roles: Developer
Website:
Occupation: Engineer
YOB: 1986
Location: France Paris, France
Languages: French, English, and a bit of Spanish and Italian
Interests: Mathematics, TeX, uncommon programming languages, uncommon human languages
Favorite Distros: Arch
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Ronald van Haren

Alias: pressh
Email: ronald.archlinux.org
Other Contact: jabber:pressh@headcounter.org, irc://irc.freenode.net:pressh
PGP Key: 0x8406FFF3
Roles: Package Maintainer
Website:
Occupation: Researcher
YOB: 1983
Location: Netherlands Capelle a/d IJssel, Netherlands
Languages: Dutch, English, German
Interests: Climate, Space, Science, Linux, Family, Sports
Favorite Distros: Arch Linux, Gentoo, FreeBSD
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Stéphane Gaudreault

Alias: stephane
Email: stephane.archlinux.org
Other Contact: jabber:stephane.gaudreault@jabber.org
PGP Key: 0xAB441196
Roles: Developer
Website:
Occupation: Mathematician
YOB: 1978
Location: Canada Vaudreuil-Dorion, Québec, Canada
Languages: Français (French), English
Interests: Family, Reading, Music
Favorite Distros: Arch Linux, Fedora, Gentoo
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Thomas Bächler

Alias: brain0
Email: thomas.archlinux.org
Other Contact: jabber:thomas.baechler@jabber.rwth-aachen.de irc:brain0
PGP Key: 0x8E4B1A25
Roles: Package Maintainer, Kernel Monkey
Website:
Occupation: Research Assistant / PhD Student
YOB: 1983
Location: Germany Aachen, Germany
Languages: German, English
Interests:
Favorite Distros: Archlinux, OpenWRT
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Thomas Dziedzic

Alias: td123
Email: gostrc@gmail.com
Other Contact: irc://irc.freenode.net:td123
PGP Key: 0x0C84C0A5
Roles: Trusted User
Website:
Occupation: Developer, Student
YOB: 1989
Location: United States Chicago, IL
Languages: English, Polish
Interests: Anything related to computers, Skating, Running/Biking
Favorite Distros: Arch Linux, Ubuntu, *BSDs
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Tobias Powalowski

Alias: tpowa
Email: tpowa.archlinux.org
Other Contact: irc://irc.freenode.net:tpowa jabber:tpowa
PGP Key: 0x7EDF681F
Roles: Package Maintainer, Kernel Monkey
Website: http://www.st-martin-apo.de
Occupation: SysAdmin / Pharmacist
YOB: 1981
Location: Germany Lauingen, Germany
Languages: German, English, French
Interests: Computers, Music, Sports:Tennis, Handball
Favorite Distros: Arch
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Tom Gundersen

Alias: tomegun
Email: teg@jklm.no
Other Contact:
PGP Key: 0x06361833
Roles: initscripts Maintainer
Website:
Occupation: Researcher
YOB: 1984
Location: France Paris, France
Languages: English
Interests:
Favorite Distros: Arch
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Vesa Kaihlavirta

Alias: vegai
Email: vesa.archlinux.org
Other Contact: irc://irc.freenode.net:vegai / xmpp://v@chao.mu
PGP Key: 0x437520BD
Roles: Package Maintainer, Haskell, new programming languages
Website:
Occupation: Programmer et alia
YOB: 1980
Location: Finland Jyväskylä, Finland
Languages: English, Finnish, bit of French, bit of Swedish
Interests: Movies, procrastination, programming languages, hacking, family
Favorite Distros: 9front
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Роман Кирилич (Roman Kyrylych)

Alias: roman
Email: roman.archlinux.org
Other Contact: irc://irc.freenode.net:Romashka
PGP Key: 0x70E80477
Roles: Bug Hunter
Website:
Occupation: Software Architect
YOB: 1984
Location: Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine
Languages: Ukrainian, English, Russian
Interests: development for Web and Linux
Favorite Distros: Arch Linux