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@@ -100,6 +100,14 @@ team_members: # Name is the only required field for team members.
     mastodon: "https://mastodon.chriswiegman.com/@chris"
     bluesky: "https://bsky.app/profile/chriswiegman.com"
     bio: "Chris Wiegman is a developer, educator, blogger and open-source contributor dedicated to creating human-centered, privacy-focused technology. Over the past two decades, he has built everything from WordPress plugins (including iThemes Security) to Chrome extensions, development environments and developer tools. A teacher at heart, Chris has lectured in aviation and computer science, mentored emerging technologists, and spoken at conferences worldwide. A former pilot turned software engineer, he remains passionate about building ethical, sustainable tools for real people."
+  - name: "Matthew Patterson"
+    image: "matt-patterson.png"
+    linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-patterson-43533110b/"
+    bio: "Matt is the Director of Techstaff for the Computer Science department at the University of Chicago. He's a strong proponent of open source in higher ed. In his free time, he enjoys playing board games and Euchre, building Lego botanical plants, and playing Whirlyball."
+    - name: "Sud Thankur"
+    image: "sud-thankur.jpg"
+    linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudarshan-thakur-308375209/"
+    bio: "Sudarshan 'Sud' Thakur is a DevOps Engineer at Convr in Chicago, working across AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD. He is the creator of tfdrift, an open-source Terraform drift detection tool that classifies drift by security severity. It was featured in Terraform Weekly, and his research on it was accepted to IEEE IC2E 2026. Sud holds an MS in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology and enjoys talking about infrastructure as code, cloud security, and fixing alert fatigue."
   - name: "Chris Read"
     image: "chris-read.jpg"
     role: "Advisory"