<p class="mt-3 mb-3 leading-7">Nathan joined GitHub in late 2011 to build the <a href="https://atom.io" class="underline">Atom text editor</a>, and he led the Atom team until 2018.</p>
<p class="mt-3 mb-3 leading-7">He also co-led development of <a href="https://teletype.atom.io" class="underline">Teletype for Atom</a>, pioneering one of the first production uses of conflict-free replicated data types for collaborative text editing.</p>
<p class="mt-3 mb-3 leading-7">He's been dreaming about building the world’s best text editor since he graduated from college, and is excited to finally have the knowledge, tools, and resources to achieve this vision.</p>
<p class="mt-3 mb-3 leading-7">Antonio joined the Atom team in 2014 while still in university after his outstanding open source contributions caught the attention of the team.</p>
<p class="mt-3 mb-3 leading-7">He later joined Nathan in architecting <a href="https://teletype.atom.io" class="underline">Teletype for Atom</a> and researching the foundations of what has turned into Zed.</p>
<p class="mt-3 mb-3 leading-7">For the last two years, he’s become an expert in distributed systems and conflict-free replicated data types through the development of a real-time, distributed, conflict-free database implemented in Rust for <a href="https://ditto.live" class="underline">Ditto</a>.</p>
<p class="mt-3 mb-3 leading-7">While driving Atom towards its 1.0 launch during the day, Max spent nights and weekends building <a href="https://tree-sitter.github.io" class="underline">Tree-sitter</a>, a blazing-fast and expressive incremental parsing framework that currently powers all code analysis at GitHub.</p>
<p class="mt-3 mb-3 leading-7">Before leaving to start Zed, Max helped GitHub's semantic analysis team integrate Tree-sitter to support syntax highlighting and code navigation on <a href="https://github.com" class="underline">github.com</a>.</p>