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Ingo Schmied is a marine engineer/computer geek hybrid. A graduate of the California Maritime Academy (CSU-Maritme) with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Marine Engineering Technology and a minor in Computer Science.

After graduating, Ingo worked with his father's ship service company off and on for a number of years until he joined some of his maritime academy classmates working on container cranes in the Port of Los Angeles. He later worked as a Project Manager for Pacific Crane Maintenance Company, managing crane maintenace personnel, commissioning, and retrofitting all types of container cranes.

After leaving PCMC, Ingo started his own company and got certified by the Cal OSHA Crane Unit to be a licensed crane inspector. Originally, Ingo was licensed to certify mobile, bridge, and gantry cranes. Today Ingo is still licensed to certify bridge and gantry cranes for Cal OSHA. Ingo has worked as an expert witness in various crane accident cases representing both plaintiffs and defendants.

Throughout all the years of providing technical services, Ingo has actively continued programming computers, developing custom web applications, and is an avid retro computing enhusiast who loves to tinker with digital electronics in his spare time. He recently started a blog at Code Surfer

Jacob Johnston has developed a mix of expertise over the years that now center primarily around software engineering. He earned a business degree with a concentration in entrepreneurship at the CSU Fullerton School of Business and Economics, spent a few years working in data science, and transitioned to software engineering and entrepreneurial consulting around 2016.

While he loves the work of software engineering, Jacob also enjoys a wide range of hobbies and semi-professional interests. He has a growing collection of freshwater aquariums, hundreds of house plants, maintains several outdoor ponds, and enjoys landscaping and permaculture gardening. He spends a fair amount of time tinkering with microcontrollers and developing IOT solutions.

He still has a soft spot for data and hardware, and enjoys tinkering with electronics and synthesizing large datasets, or building data visualizations. Through it all, his passion for software engineering and computer science reign supreme.

Jacob has been partially or completely self-employed for most of his career, often spending periods of 4-12 months consulting for scrappy startups as well as big names like Nike and Intel. After meeting Ingo he also learned a lot about the crane inspection and certification business and looks forward to building time-saving and efficiency-optimizing software and tools for the industry.