It's jacquesm (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacquesm), a regular and top contributor here (https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders). I think most regulars on HN recognize his blog and are somewhat familiar with what he has done. It would be nice to have a short explanation in the article though :)
I put together a set of capsule bios of the top 20 HN contributors, which might be useful background info: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/hacker_news_posters.html
Re:The Several Million Dollar Bug
by goatforce5 on Monday June 09, 2014 @10:47AM
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Nice work! It would be useful to have their HN names as part of their bios.
I was a bit undecided about that, though I'm leaning towards adding them now. There was a small discussion about that when I first submitted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6957005
>My main occupations are being owner/operator of ww.com, which pioneered streaming webcam technology, and working as a consultant to do technical due diligence.
Reading the article, at first I assumed he was someone who worked on an early browser or something, then maybe a hardware webcam manufacturer. I assume that he's just not used to people showing up at his blog with no context about who he is, so there you go.