Team¶
Leadership¶
Ingy döt Net¶
Founder

Ingy döt Net is the co-creator of YAML and founder of The YAML Company. Along with Clark Evans and Oren Ben-Kiki, Ingy helped design and specify YAML starting in 2001.
Background¶
- Co-created YAML (2001) - Worked with Clark Evans and Oren Ben-Kiki to design the YAML data language
- Open Source Pioneer - Decades of contributions to Perl, Python, and other communities
- ActiveState Alumni - Worked on Perl core and data serialization in the early 2000s
- Created YAMLScript - Designed the next-generation YAML programming language
YAML Projects¶
Ingy has created and maintains numerous YAML-related projects:
- go-yaml - YAML for Go
- pyyaml - YAML for Python
- libyaml - Fast C YAML library
- YAMLScript - YAML programming language
- yaml-test-suite - Comprehensive YAML test suite
Links¶
YAML Language Development Team¶
The YAML Company works closely with the YAML language development team, which maintains the YAML specification:
- Ingy döt Net - YAML co-creator
- Tina Müller (tinita) - YAML test suite, YAML::PP
- Pantelis Antoniou (panto) - libfyaml
- Eemeli Aro - yaml.js, YAML 1.2 spec work
- Thom Smith - yaml-thom, Documentation, community
Ecosystem Partners¶
We collaborate with maintainers of other critical YAML tools:
- Mike Farah - yq
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