GSOC mentors

D Mentors

This page provides brief biographies of mentors for Google Summer of Code Projects for the D Programming Language. If you are looking for information on the creatures from the Harry Potter books, try here.

Andrei Alexandrescu

He is the author of the book "The D Programming Language" (2010), and is the author of the award winning "Modern C++ Design" (2001), and with Herb Sutter, "C++ Coding Standards" (2005). Since 2006 Andrei has collaborated closely with Walter Bright, the creator and driving force behind D, on the design and implementation of the language and its standard library. He currently works with Facebook. Andrei's favorite English words are "No" and "Destroy". You can check out Andrei in action here.

Iain Buclaw

Lead developer, project coordinator and the principal force behind the development of the GNU D Compiler from as far back as 2009, where he was responsible for the migration over from D1 to D2, as well as from GCC 3.x to GCC 4.x. Iain works on for a Cloud Services/Hosting company as a technical engineer, and unofficially uses D on a frequent basis to develop interpreters, and various plug-ins to work within the company infrastructure. You can watch Iain's recent DConf talk here.

Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole

Richard is from New Zealand. He recently graduated from Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology with a degree in ICT.
In the D community he is known for DOOGLE (GUI toolkit), Cmsed, Dvorm and more recently Devisualization.
He has a strange fascination towards CTFE and its many uses. For this reason alone Cmsed, has significant CTFE usage in helping optimise routing and database work.

Martin Nowak

Starting off as electrical engineering student he became a C++ developer working on DSP and application code at Ableton. Following 1.5 years of full-time open source he is now working as backend engineer at Mobisol. Martin is one of the main contributors to the D runtime and was recently named release manager for the D reference compiler and standard library. You can find his GitHub profile here.

Amaury Sechet

Amaury, or Deadalinx as he is known in the D community, is an engineer with Facebook, and the creator and lead developer on SDC.

Dragos Carp

Dragos started writing embedded software for laser applications. Currently he works in Munich coding in D on passenger information systems. He has an interest in asynchronous programming and communication protocols and ported the asyncio python library to D.

Administrators

Craig Dillabaugh

Craig is a avid fan of the D programming language since he first came across it five years ago. It is the first open source project he has contributed too, but since he is not a programming whiz, like the others listed on this page, he has taken a management position. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carleton University with a specialization in Computational Geometry and External Memory data structures. He lives in Ottawa, Canada where he works as a developer for Solana Networks. In his free time he likes to hang out with his family, and is interested in soccer (football), ice hockey and skiing.

Martin Nowak

Martin Nowak, whos bio you can see above has volunteered to serve as the backup administrator.