Pete Field founded ayvri from technology spun out from Data61/CSIRO. He has a background in software development, PR & marketing and product/project management. In 2008 Pete built the world’s largest concert search engine. A skier and mountain biker from Whistler, Canada, Pete has ridden the toughest mountain bike races on his singlespeed bike, he’s competed in Ironman Canada, the Rottnest Swim, Melbourne Marathon and much more.

Briely Marum was the first software engineer to join ayvri after leaving Data61. There is nothing Briely can’t do with code. He has a background in object recognition, 3d mapping and machine learning. He was a member of NICTA’s Computer Vision Team and Technical Lead in Data61's Tele-health project. Briely hikes, mountain bikes, rides motorcycles and knows how to survive in the Australian wilderness.

Mike Lester was the Lead Engineer at That Game Company, creator of the critically acclaimed game Journey. He is a graphics wiz and has worked at EA Sports, as well as Xbox. You can see Mike presenting “Sky” at Apple’s iPhoneX launch event. Mike’s capabilities in graphics rendering brings the “wow” factor to ayvri’s player. Mike is a climber and competitive paraglider. He is the current US National Paragliding Champion (Class X) with his eyes on the Paragliding World Cup.

Damon Oehlman was an early engineer at Canva where he worked across multiple engineering divisions, from front-end to the growth engineering team, Damon has first hand experience with the inner workings of a hyper-growth startup. Has been a prolific OpenSource contributor to the node and geospatial ecosystems since 2010 and worked with Pete and Briely at NICTA. Damon was recently bitten by the paragliding bug, and plans on going to flight school in 2019.