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Firebird 2.0 project teams

Table 18.1. Firebird development teams

Developer Country Major Tasks
Dmitry Yemanov Russian Federation Full-time database engineer/implementor, core team leader
Alex Peshkoff Russian Federation Security features coordinator; buildmaster; porting authority
Claudio Valderrama Chile Code scrutineer; bug-finder and fixer; ISQL enhancements; UDF fixer, designer and implementor
Vladislav Horsun Ukraine DB engineer, SQL feature designer/implementor
Arno Brinkman The Netherlands Indexing and Optimizer enhancements; new DSQL features
Adriano dos Santos Fernandes Brazil New international character-set handling; text and text BLOB enhancements; new DSQL features; code scrutineering
Nickolay Samofatov Russian Federation/Canada Designed and implemented new inline NBackup; code-fixer; DB engineer
Paul Beach France Release Manager; HP-UX builds; MacOS Builds; Solaris Builds
Pavel Cisar Czech Republic QA tools designer/coordinator
Philippe Makowski France QA tester
Paul Reeves France Win32 installers and builds
Sean Leyne Canada Bugtracker sentry
Dimitrios Ioannides Greece New Jira bugtracker implementor
Ann Harrison U.S.A. Frequent technical advisor
Jim Starkey U.S.A. Occasional architectural commentator
Roman Rokytskyy Germany Jaybird implementor and co-coordinator
Ryan Baldwin U.K. Jaybird Type 2 driver developer
Evgeny Putilin Russian Federation Java stored procedures implementation
Carlos Guzman Alvarez Spain Developer and coordinator of .NET providers for Firebird until Jan. 2008
Jiri Cincura Czech Republic Coordinator of .NET providers for Firebird from Jan. 2008
Alexander Potapchenko Russia Developer and coordinator of ODBC/JDBC driver for Firebird
David Rushby (d) U.S.A. Developer and coordinator KInterbase Python interface for Firebird until the summer of 2007 when he died in a boating accident.
Paul Vinkenoog The Netherlands Coordinator, Firebird documentation project; documentation writer and tools developer/implementor
Norman Dunbar U.K. Documentation writer
Pavel Menshchikov Russian Federation Documentation translator
Tomneko Hayashi Japan Documentation translator
Umberto (Mimmo) Masotti Italy Documentation translator
Olivier Mascia Belgium IBPP C++ interface developer; re-implementor of Win32 installation services
Oleg Loa Russian Federation Contributor
Grzegorz Prokopski Hungary Debian builds
Helen Borrie Australia Release notes editor; Chief of Thought Police