Alejandro (Alex) began his hacker journey at the ripe young age of 15, causing minor (read: probably not illegal) trouble on AOL. While studying Physics in college, he learned all about how distributed computing could help with massive simulations of scientific problems in heavy ion collisions, and he's been in love with distributed computing ever since. Upon entering the real world, he spent a few years working in the information security field. But late at night, when no one was looking, he would play around with distributed computing, and he began applying it to web app hacking, thus effectively combining two of his favorite things.

He originally started Hyperion Gray as a venue for releasing his open source stuff, but it picked up speed and eventually he decided to leave his day job to focus on Hyperion Gray full time. We think he made the right decision.

Amanda began her career as a geopolitical intel analyst, and a few years ago she incidentally fell into the world of infosec and software development, where she promptly learned everything the hard way. Her official title is "Queen Overlord of All Things Business-y" but she is also the project manager, the bean counter, the coffee and tea maker, the make-sure-you-eat-something-er, the are-you-sure-you-want-to-do-that-er and the do-whatever-needs-doing-er. She is absolutely thrilled to get to spend every day hanging out with the smartest, coolest people she's ever met and watching them work their magic, while she keeps the administrative monkeys off their backs and sits in all the meetings so they don't have to.

Tomas's career started long before the Internet proper, when you had to physically go to dark places to buy pirated games (in 5" disks, of course). Then he covertly learned Visual Basic using Excel's VBA while working in a call center, until one fateful day when he was called up to build an actual application. He soon moved to Java and has been trying to stay patched since then. He's interested in Java and Scala, Big data, Machine Learning and, more recently, Offensive Security, but mostly he's interested in trying good beers.

Mark's coding career began in a financial services job that that closely resembled the movie Office Space (sans heist, of course). With his trusty Swingline in hand, Mark moved to a more rewarding career in federal compliance. Well okay, that was also pretty boring, but he met some awesome people along the way and kept honing his craft, and that eventually brought him to HG. If Mark was a cast member of The Muppet Show, he'd be one of the old guys in the balcony complaining about everything. (He's the tall one of the two, if you were wondering.) Mark's interests include infosec, machine learning, UX, and expanding participation in computer science.

Luke studied Philosphy as an undergraduate, then spent some time in China, mainly doing kung fu and eating noodles. When he realized that neither of those things would lead to a career for him (he is not Bruce Lee), he returned to study Informatics. From there he spent several years building web analytics software, then went on to work for a number of digital marketing agencies. He met some nice people and had some fun parties but he's getting too old for that now and just hopes to write code that will make some small but positive impact on the world.

Brian did his undergraduate studies in Physics as a continued exercise in loving math. After struggling to find a career he really enjoyed, he decided to go back to school for something more practical, like Cyber Security! And because that wasn't enough he also taught himself to program on the side. He had finally found his place in the world as a destroyer of logic, and soon landed a gig where he learned a lot of valuable coding lessons, like what a unit test is, and how to be thoughtful to your future self (read: leave #comments). He made his way to the Hyperion Gray team, and now lives happily ever after. Brian's interests include: not writing bios, Rust-lang, C, Javascript, AI, clean APIs. His pet peeves include: Python Package Management.

Jason began his career building laser systems, robots, and environmental sensing equipment, and enjoys spending his time building highly automated systems, experimenting with machine learning, and working with large data sets. Jason loves to code and develop new skills but somehow also believes that PEP-8 is a kind of vitamin. When not programming, Jason enjoys a wide range of video games, woodworking, and spicy food. Motivated by interesting problems, talented coworkers, and fuelled almost entirely on coffee, Hyperion Gray is proving to be the most challenging, and interesting part of his career yet.

DD's journey to Hyperion Gray is a bit like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland. He studied baseball in college (and occasionally studied to receive his English degree) at the University of Texas at San Antonio. After working in youth ministry for five years, the neat opportunity arose at HG to work alongside is older sister, Amanda, as an administrative menace assistant. He knows just enough about computers for most people to think he knows what he's doing—so he fits right in.
His hobbies include reading, writing, painting, piano, guitar, hair-growing (beard and head), crossfit, and spending time with his church Fam.