Michael is obsessed with the idea of open digital publishing by considering content as data and separating it from presentation. Back in 2010 he kicked off Substance in order to verify that idea. This verification is still in progress.

Has been around doing web development for "the evil" in the 00s, became really passionate about digital communication but got rapidly tired of racing for the bucks. Nowadays trying to get involved with the stuff that matters, like clapping off-beat, meeting people and Open Source.

Oliver has worked in various fields of Computer Science. He loves code generation, parsers and lately, Javascript. Back in 2010, he helped with the initial design of the Substance Document Model. Now he's working on our native Substance Builds (OSX and Linux), and our new DocumentStore interface which is exposed to Javascript.

Samo works in the field of visual communication and usability. He helped with the original layout of Substance.

Tim joined the project in Summer 2011. He's the one responsible for integrating Pandoc with Substance Letterpress, so we can turn Substance documents into LaTeX, Markdown, Textile and many other formats.

Currently he is exploring the posibilities of Operational Transformation and also writes lots of code in Haskell and Lua.

Node.js enthusiast and Frontend Developer, joined the team after building his own Substance-based blog engine.

Addicted to semantics and separation of concerns, he is mainly responsible of the development of Substance.io.