Justin Hsiao

Justin is CTO of Gulu.com and he loves – loves! – his team. “These guys are my hacker heroes,” he told us.

He and his merry band will build something called iTrust or iTrusting or something. “It’s about trust,” he said, and we believe him.

Kevin Butler

Kevin is a developer/traveller who is working on an API for a social game. His hacker hero is Kevin Rose and he’s working with a great team from Beijing to build out gaming APIs into a working project.

Erik Chen

Erik Chen is an accomplished hacker in his own right but he admires Mark Pincus and loves social gaming. He’s working in mobile game payment systems and he’s planning on building an API for a social game during the hackathon.

Guo Ying

Taciturn Guo Ying’s hacker hero is her friend, Yichun Zhang, and she’s still undecided as to what she and her team are building. However, the’s an engineer so it shouldn’t be too difficult for them to turn around the next Linux in 24 hours.

Yichun Zhang

Knowing that Guo Ying dug Yichun’s work, I had to talk to him. His heroes are Larry Wall and Linus Torvalds. He, like Guo, has no idea what he wants to build but he’s well on his way to coding greatness.

Chet Huang

Chet is a programmer for Wenquxing and is building a social game for the hackathon.

Tom Wang

Tom works for Nezsoft.com consulting and is working on an API integration with Tianji. His project? A headhunter portal using Tianji’s database as well as some translation APIs to make it international. His tech hero is Anonymous.

Aaron Farr

Aaron Farr is doing something secretive with his start-up Vdio and he’s still trying to get Internet to work at the venue before he even starts working on his project. Until things speed up, he’s relaxing calmly in the back of the room.