Android People

Here are some of the key Android developers you may encounter on mailing
lists or at events:

Google People

Dianne Hackborn -
platform programmer, worked on original OpenBinder
Brian Swetland - lead kernel developer
- See
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/10/397
Arve Hjønnevåg - kernel developer (original submitter of wakelock
patches)
Mike Chan - Droid developer
Dan Bornstein - Dalvik creator
Chris DiBona - Open Source Programs Manager at Google

Karim Yaghmour - President of Opersys,
long-time Embedded Linux and Android expert, author and trainer
Greg Kroah-Hartman - long-time kernel developer, sometimes responds
on android-kernel mailing list
Tim Riker linked-in
account - CTO at
Saygus, maker of an Android-based video phone
Tetsuyuki Kobayashi - Developer at Kyoto MicroComputer. Has an
excellent blog with several great articles about Android.
http://kobablog.wordpress.com/
- presentation: Android is not just Java on
  Linux
  - an excellent overview of Android
- page of presentations by Kobayashi-san:
  http://www.slideshare.net/tetsu.koba/presentations

Steve Kondik (also known as Cyanogen) - creator and maintainer of
the cyanogenmod custom images
Benno - has a blog, provides busybox binary (V.P. of Engineering at
Open Kernel Labs)
- Android Framework
  Startup
  tutorial on framework startup (and how to change a ramdisk.img)
- Android - under the
  hood
  analysis of system startup
- list of android articles by
  Benno
- busybox
  binary
JesusFreke - Used to make custom system images. Author of
smali/baksmali (dex assembler/disassembler)
- JesusFreke’s Blog (with release
  anouncements)
- smali project page
Haykuro - makes custom system images
- Haykuro’s site (blog,
  info)
Brian Gupta (aka Brandorr) - author of FAQ at Android-DLs
TheDudeOfLife - makes custom system images
- announcement of 1.5 (cupcake)
  build
Others on xda-developers: xmoo, Stericson, dapro, marcusmaximus,
manup456