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 Hall of Fame

Hacker Hall of Fame

Thank you, Orcasound App Hackers!

We would like to acknowledge the tremendous contributions of time, technology, and code that have been made to our open source project. Beginning in the fall of 2018, we began participating in hackathons in Seattle and at the University of Washington. In summer, 2019, we partnered with Microsoft through their amazing hackathon community. In 2020, Orcasound became a host organization for Google Summer of Code (GSoC).

In combination with our Github repositories , these events have brought many talented programmers, designers, engineers, researchers, and “geeks for good” to the project. They have made it possible to rapidly develop and refine the Orcasound app — a new way to listen for whales — based on a cutting-edge suite of inexpensive and open source hardware and software for live streaming audio data.

Orcasound at a democracy lab hackathon in SeattleOrcasound at a democracy lab hackathon in Seattle (photo by Mark Frischmuth).

So, let’s have a virtual round of applause for the following stand-out members of the Orcasound open source community. If you’re inspired by their contributions to our Github repositories or Democracy Lab hackathons, don’t hesitate to support the Founders and Influencers directly! Sing their praises on social media and networks; join them in hacking for orca conservation; reinforce their volunteerism financially.

Paul Cretu

Orcasound site & player (2017+)

GSoC mentor (2021)

Skander Mzali

Orcasound site (2017-2020, 2023-2025)

Admin UI (2019)

Steve Hicks

Orcanode repository (2018+)

GSoC mentor (2020+)

Brendan Thatcher

User research & UX team lead (2020+)

GSoC mentor (2021)

Node engineering and machine learning (2017+)

GSoC mentor (2020+)

Scott Veirs

Project management (2017+)

GSoC mentor (2020+)

Mike Castor

UI v2 implementation (2019-2020)

2017 Kickstarter Campaign creation.

2017+ Product Manager and UX Designer.

2021 Google Summer of Code mentor.

Valentina Staneva

Microsoft AI4Earth Innovation Grant lead (2019)

GSoC mentor and administrative lead (2020+)

UW MS Data Science mentor (2022-23)

Prakruti Gogia

OrcaHello project manager

Pod.Cast creator (Microsoft hackathons, 2019-2021)

OrcaHello, Founding project lead (2019-2023)

Pod.Cast creator

Praful Mathur

Experiment.com funding (2021)

GSoC mentor (2022)

Michelle Yang

Microsoft hackathon project manager (2020+)

Jesse Lopez

GSoC mentor (2020-2021)

Graphic design (2017+)

Influencers

(Major Contributors)

Founders can raise funds under the auspices of Orcasound to support their own Orcasound efforts or the project in general.

Google Summer of Code (GSoc) Participants

Kunal Mehta

(India)

GSoC contributor (2020)

GSoC mentor (2021)

Diego Roderiguez

(Mexico)

GSoC contributor (2020)

GSoC contributor (2021)

GSoC contributor (2021)

GSoC contributor (2021)

Jose Giraldo

(Colombia, Spain)

GSoC contributor (2021)

Ambra Jin

(Italy, UK, Germany)

GSoC contributor (2022)

Devdoot Chatterjee

(India)

GSoC contributor (2022)

Benjamin Chew

(Singapore, USA)

GSoC contributor (2022)

GSoC contributor (2022)

Paul Nguyen Hong Duc

(France, Canada)

GSoC mentor (2022)

Live Listening App UI & Development Team

UX/UI/design project manager (2021+)

Elena Bukhonok

UX/UI/design project manager (2020-21)

Sam St Michael

Design, branding, social media (2020+)

James Pedersen

Full stack developer (2020)

Wei Li

Catherine Zeng

UX Designer

Arcatia.io Data Cooperative

Maria Palamar

Facilitation & user research (2020+)

Graise Lee Jenni

Facilitation & user research (2020+)

Tech Lead for Acartia

Peter Ince

Development (2020-22)

Nick Bryne

Design & Project Management (2020-21)

Data Exchange + Mobile App Customization (2019+)

Data Exchange + Mobile App Customization (2019+)

Project Management Team

Project Manager, Fundraising (2022-23)

Heather Gordon

Project Manager (2021-2)

Sanjari Jain

Project Manager (2021)

Development Project Manager (2021)

PodCast

(ML-Assisted Annotation Tool)

OrcaHello

(Real-Time Inference System Leads)

Prakruti Gogia

Overall Lead

Mike Cowan

Moderation system, Front End

Claire Goetschel

Moderation system, Design

Akash Mahajan

Annotation System

Aayush Agrawal

Machine Learning Development

Chris Hanke

Public Relations

Adele Bai

Notification System

Michelle Yang

Azure Administration+

Individual Contributors

Erin Pierce-Magdalik

User-centered design of 2019 UI v2 (2019)

Implementation of 2019 UI v2 (2019)

Samantha Berk

Administrative back end (2018-19)

Graphic design (2017-2020)

Erika Pelaez

Machine learning (2018)

Machine learning & spectrograms from FLAC files (2018+)

Ivan Storck

Orcamap code clean-up & contribution standards (2020-21)

Joyce Liao

Orcanode repo & Raspberry Pi testing (2020+)

Adrian MacDonald

Content strategy, analytics, conservation impact (2021+)

Maria Palamar

Conservation impact (2020+)

Glenn Block

UX Designer & Researcher (2023+)

Product Manager (2023+)

UX Designer (2023+)

Erika facilitating an early discussion of machine learning and the orca data repositoryErika facilitating an early discussion of machine learning and the Orcadata repository.
Val working on the Orcanode software and hardware.Val working on the Orcanode software and hardware.
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