From 3d0ab090b0a698caaa3846f5e78e8a7daf12f25d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seth Vargo
- The following people are some of the faces behind Packer. They each - contribute to Packer in some core way. Over time, faces may appear and - disappear from this list as contributors come and go. In addition to - the faces below, Packer is a project by - HashiCorp, so many HashiCorp - employees actively contribute to Packer. -
-- Mitchell Hashimoto is the creator of Packer. He developed the - core of Packer as well as the Amazon, VirtualBox, and VMware - builders. In addition to Packer, Mitchell is the creator of - Vagrant. He is self - described as "automation obsessed." -
-- Jack Pearkes created and maintains the DigitalOcean builder - for Packer. Outside of Packer, Jack is an avid open source - contributor and software consultant. -
-- In addition to Packer, Mark Peek helps maintain - various open source projects such as - cloudtools and - IronPort Python libraries. - Mark is also a FreeBSD committer. -
-- Ross Smith maintains our - VMware builder on Windows, and provides other valuable assistance. Ross is an - open source enthusiast, published author, and freelance consultant. -
-- Rickard von Essen maintains our Parallels Desktop builder. Rickard is an - polyglot programmer and consults on Continuous Delivery. -
-Matt maintains Packer for HashiCorp. After - picking up Chef for a job, he decided that continually provisioning the - same machine was bound for trouble. Luckily Packer had just been created, - and was the answer to his prayers. Now he works on it professionally, and - couldn't be happier. -
-Megan maintains Packer for HashiCorp; in her past life she used Packer and Vagrant in her work as a cloud infrastructure developer. -
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