Collin (Collin1971) is one of the developers for the Aether II mod, hired in late 2014. He is currently a programmer at Gilded Games and works on multiple projects, primarily being the Aether 1.8 release.
His programming knowledge has been completely self-taught, and has had no educational courses or training.
Collin doesn't have a public photograph of himself, and declines all requests for it.