It is very important to pick up the networking infrastructure slack from Steemit, Inc., in my opinion, and many of the witnesses mentioned in your post already have my support.

It is also important that we have good software engineers, which you also alluded to with such mentions as @fulltimegeek, to name but one.

A couple of others that might also be considered on the programming angle might be @gtg, @timcliff, @themarkymark, @someguy123 and @bobinson.

This is not to mean that there are not others, yet the above mentioned have come to my attention as seeming to know thier shit.