Ayan Choudhary is an Electrical Engineering undergraduate student from India and will be interning with Creative Commons during the summer. He has been involved with coding quite heavily for the past couple of years which is one of his numerous hobbies. Some of the sectors which really fascinate him include network security, blockchain, and data science. Apart from this he loves reading and painting and is quite interested in PC gaming and binge-watching online shows.

He is working on [ccsearch](https://github.com/creativecommons/cccatalog-frontend) as a part of GSoC20.

[JackieBinya](https://github.com/JackieBinya) is a software developer, technical writer, cloud enthusiast, and a Google Season of Docs 2020 participant.

Ahmad Bilal is a Computer Science undergrad from UET Lahore, who likes computers, problems and using the former to solve the later. He is always excited about Open Source, and is currently focused on Node.js, Serverless, GraphQL, Cloud, Gatsby.js with React.js and WordPress. He likes organizing meetups, conferences and meeting new people. Cats are his weakness, and he is a sucker for well-engineered cars.

Ahmad is working on [the CC WordPress plugin](https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons-wordpress-plugin) as part of [Google Summer of Code 2019](/gsoc-2019/).

Ari is CC's Open Source Community Coordinator, a mostly self taught Computer Science student, and tea enthusiast. He is based in Seattle and his favorite teas are blacks, whites, and Shou Pu Erhs.

He started working with CC through Google Summer of Code 2019 through his work on the CC license chooser tool. [[source code](https://github.com/creativecommons/chooser)]

Alden was previously Backend Software Engineer at Creative Commons.

Prior to joining Creative Commons, Alden developed and operated a real-time market risk management system used by equity derivatives traders at Deutsche Bank. He also has experience working in the ad-tech industry and contributing to free software. Alden currently lives in New York City, where he spends much of his time cycling.

[Anna](https://creativecommons.org/author/annacreativecommons-org/) is Director of Product at Creative Commons. She's `@Anna` on the CC Slack.

Ana is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and is currently helping revamp the [Platform Toolkit](https://creativecommons.org/platform/toolkit/) as part of the Outreachy 2019-2020 round. Her favorite thing is thinking up and building great interfaces. You can find her as `@apdsrocha` on the CC Slack.

Ariessa is a Google Season of Docs 2020 participant. Her project is about improving CC Catalog API Usage Guide. She is `@ariessa` on the CC Slack.

Bhumij is a junior Information Technology student from VIT, India. He started programming with Python 2 years ago, writing scripts for automating his tasks. Along with Python, he also works on Nodejs, Reactjs, Docker, MongoDB and AWS.

In his free time, he likes to make graphic designs, conduct meetups and binge watch anime.

Bhumij is currently working on [CC-Link-Checker](https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-link-checker)

Brandon Dorman was an educator for nine years before going into edtech first as Lead Content Curator at OpenEd.com then ACT product managing OpenSALT. He lives in San Jose with his amazing wife and two incredible daughters! He enjoys triathlons and science fiction. Picard is his hero because he makes bald cool.

Breno was previously Front End Engineer at Creative Commons.

Breno has 10 years of experience in software development working in various industries, from investment banking to oil engineering, to payment systems.

Outside work, Breno spends his time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he enjoys running, eating açaí, and paying an occasional visit to the beach. Breno can sometimes be spotted in other corners of the globe on his travels.

Brylie Christopher Oxley is the Web Developer at at [Creative

Commons][creativecommons]. They are `@Brylie Christopher Oxley` on [CC

Slack](/community/) and [brylie][github] on GitHub.

Charini is a PhD student from the Australian National University, who is working on

the [cccatalog](https://github.com/creativecommons/cccatalog) repository as a part of GSoC 2020.

She is `@Charini Nanayakkara` on slack.

Chidi is currently working on [CC Vocabulary](https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-vocabulary) as part of 2019-2020 [Outreachy Internship](/programs/outreachy/2019-12-start/).

[dhruvi16](https://dhruvi16.github.io/dhruvi16/) is a 3rd year undergrad at IIIT Surat. She is a FOSS enthusiast and very much into UX concepts.

[Dhruv Bhanushali](https://dhruvkb.github.io/) was previously Open Source Community Coordinator at Creative Commons. He goes by `@dhruvkb` on the CC Community Slack workspace. Dhruv developed [CC Vocabulary](https://opensource.creativecommons.org/cc-vocabulary/) as part of [Google Summer of Code 2019](/gsoc-2019/) and now is a maintainer for the project.

Frederic Font is a post-doc researcher at the Music Technology Group (MTG) of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Frederic Font holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2007) and a MSc in Sound and Music Computing from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2010). In 2015, he obtained a PhD in Sound and Music Computing from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His research interests lay in the field of sound and music computing, audio processing and the semantic representation of audio content, motivated by the creative potential that online communities of users have through online sound sharing sites such as Freesound. His current research is focused on understanding how to analyze and describe large sound collections so that these become more useful in creative contexts. This includes the use of a wide range of techniques from signal processing and machine learning to semantic representation of music information and analysis of user communities and their generated metadata. In the MTG, Frederic also leads the Freesound website and its related projects, and has coordinated the EU funded AudioCommons project.

Hugo was previously Web Developer at Creative Commons.

Hugo brings more than 10 years of experience as a web developer. He spent the last four years as a full stack developer and interface designer, working with local NGOs and institutions supporting social movements and labor unions. He lives in a quiet and small town in Chile with his lovely son; cooking, drinking coffee, and taking care of his orchard. In his free time, he likes to achieve a zen-like state by practicing Karate and Kickboxing.

Kriti was Director of Engineering at Creative Commons from Nov 2018 to Dec 2020.

Kriti shipped her first website when she was ten years old and has been coding ever since. Prior to joining CC, she focused on leading happy and productive distributed engineering teams at startups, and has enjoyed architecting and building both consumer-facing and enterprise software.

Kriti grew up in southern India and moved to the U.S. to attend Oberlin College, where she majored in computer science and mathematics. She is now a proud American citizen, and lives in Oberlin with her husband and 13 overflowing bookcases.

Krystle is a Software Developer from Venezuela, working on **Reimplement [CC’s Legal Database](https://github.com/creativecommons/legaldb) using Django** as part of Outreachy Summer round of 2020. You can find her as `@krysal` on the CC Slack.

Eleni (Lena) Stergatou holds a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.

She has more than 15 years’ experience in web development working with ASP.net, PHP and various web development technologies based mainly on open-source software.

In 2003, she joined the Greek School Network and Networking Technologies Directorate (GSN-NTS) at the Computer Technology Institute and Press “Diophantus”. She is actively involved in the design, development and management in a variety of projects, but she loves to work with WordPress projects such as:

- <https://blogs.sch.gr>, the blogging and online community for Greek teachers and students. (2008-now)

Her main responsibilities in GSN-NTS: web development, deliverables preparation, ICT training, advanced help-desk and participation in European working groups.

Additionally, she has significant experience as a teacher on ICT use and programming languages. She is a co-author of five books on European Computer Driving License (ECDL) and has three publications on eLearning and social networking services.

Eleni is an open source enthusiast and has contributions in WordPress.org and other open source technologies by providing bug fixes, plugins and translations in the Greek language.

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