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+Credits
+--------
+Because the process of open sourcing requires squashing all the commits to remove confidential information, the initial contributions are lost in the history page.
+
+Several people were instrumental in the development of this project to date.
+
+### Primary contributors
+Primary contributors to the core EmoDB include (in alphabetical order):
+- [Bill Kalter](https://github.com/billkalter)
+- [Fahd Siddiqui](https://github.com/fahdsiddiqui)
+- [Shawn Smith](https://github.com/shawnsmith)
+
+### EmoDB team
+The current EmoDB team consists of the following folks (in alphabetical order):
+- [Bill Kalter](https://github.com/billkalter)
+- [Fahd Siddiqui](https://github.com/fahdsiddiqui)
+- [Ravi Patel](https://github.com/r48patel) 
+- [Serhiy Suprun](https://github.com/ssuprun)
+- [Sujith Vaddi](https://github.com/sujithvaddi)
+
+### All past contributors
+Over the years, there have been many folks who have been on the EmoDB team and/or contributed to this project. Here is the full list of all past contributors (in alphabetical order):
+- [Aaron Dixon](https://github.com/atdixon)
+- [Ahaduzzaman Munna](https://github.com/mmunna)
+- [Akshay Patil](https://github.com/apatil4)
+- [Bradley Schmidt](https://github.com/ToadJam)
+- [Carl Downs](https://github.com/carldowns)
+- [Dave Barcelo](https://github.com/DevOpsDave)
+- [Delyan Tashev](https://github.com/dtashev)
+- [Joel Comeaux](https://github.com/jcomeaux)
+- [John Roesler](https://github.com/vvcephei)
+- [Jona Fenocchi](https://github.com/jonaf)
+- [Mark Brandt](https://github.com/ohhatiya)
+- [Matthew Bogner](https://github.com/matthewbogner)
+- [Volodymyr Linevych](https://github.com/vlinevich)