CRBRL is early. The public roster below is what's actually confirmed — no stock-photo "leadership team" filler. The rest of the page is what's being built toward, stated plainly rather than implied.
Principal author of the standalone engine and the crbrl-pg Postgres extension, and architect of the compression-native commitment that distinguishes the product — every byte on disk, in the WAL, and in replicas carries the same 8× reduction, not just the primary index.
Seed financing is earmarked to build out the first engineering team. This card gets filled in as people join, not before.
Padding a team page with advisors, part-time contributors, or people who aren't yet confirmed to want to be named publicly is exactly the kind of credibility leak this brand is built to avoid. If and when more names go on this page, each one gets the same treatment as the founder card above — a real contribution, not a title.