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title: About Us
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<h2>The Team</h2>

<h3 style="margin-bottom: 2em">
  Signal K began in a GitHub issue, as a solution for 5 developers to make their projects interoperable:
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      <img alt="Robert Huitema" src="{{site.baseurl}}/images/rob_s.jpg" height="190" width="190" />
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    <h4 class="name">Robert Huitema</h4>
    <p>
      Sailing since early 90s. Spent 2 years sailing the Pacific Islands and Australia with my family. While cruising,
      began using an Arduino for various onboard tasks, and in 2011 started the
      <a href="http://www.42.co.nz/freeboard/">Freeboard project</a>.
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  </li>
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      <img alt="Teppo Kurki" src="https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/1049678?v=3&s=190" height="190" width="190" />
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    <h4 class="name">Teppo Kurki</h4>
    <p>Cruises the Baltic on a Raspberry Pi equipped sailboat and helps Signal K along whenever daytime job permits. <a href="https://github.com/tkurki/navgauge/issues/4">Started</a> with Signal K effort based on experiences writing <a href="https://github.com/tkurki/navgauge">Navgauge</a>.</p>
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  <li class="profile">
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      <img alt="Tim Mathews" src="{{site.baseurl}}/images/tim_s.jpg" height="190" width="190" />
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    <h4 class="name">Tim Mathews</h4>
    <p>
      Sailor, software engineer, tinkerer. Maintains
      <a href="https://github.com/timmathews/argo">Argo</a> &amp;
      <a href="https://github.com/timmathews/pyxis-web">Pyxis</a>
    </p>
  </li>
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      <img alt="Fabian Tollenaar" src="{{site.baseurl}}/images/fabian_s.jpg" height="190px" width="190px" />
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    <h4 class="name">Fabian Tollenaar</h4>
    <p>
      Competitive and recreational sailor from an early age. 
      Business founder and programmer, wrote Saildata which evolved into the 
      <a href="http://github.com/signalk/signalk-server-node" target="_blank">Node.js Signal K server</a>
    </p>
  </li>
  <li class="profile">
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      <img alt="Kees Verruijt" src="https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/1608058?v=3&s=190" height="190" width="190" />
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    <h4 class="name">Kees Verruijt</h4>
    <p>Started computing life building an Acorn Atom and still writes C code for a living. 
    Maintains the
      <a href="https://github.com/canboat/canboat">CANBoat</a> open source NMEA 2000 analyzer and the 
      <a href="https://github.com/canboat/BR24radar_pi">Navico radar plugin</a> for OpenCPN.
    </p>
  </li>
</ul>

<p>
  We are all sailors, and all geeks! We work as developers and specialists in a highly connected internet world, and we
  want to enjoy the benefits on our boats.
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