• Who are you, and where are you from?

I am Brendan G Bohannon, at the time of this writing, I live in Oklahoma. I have lived various places in the US and in US territories (OR/NV/GU/AZ), and have lived in the US most of my life. Both my parents are also American, and I am a US citizen. Admittedly, I am also autistic, but I don't expect this is all that rare among programmers.

For the most part, my efforts have been independent hobbyist projects, rather than anything commercial or professional. What day jobs I have worked thus far have generally had little to do with computers.

• What are you working on?

Various things, the past several years most of my effort has gone into the BJX2 ISA and CPU core, along with a lot of the associated tooling. On an Artix-7 FPGA, it is capable of delivering performance comparable to a mid-90s PC, but could potentially do better on a higher-end FPGA. I have been also working some towards trying to reduce cost and improve performance on this class of FPGA.

I have also worked on 3D stuff, and have written code both for GPUs as well as software renderers. I also sometimes work with data and audio/video compression and similar. Basically, whatever I feel is needed for the task at hand.

• Why is their sponsorship important? How will you use the funds?

Maybe help support my cost of living, or other things related to my projects (such as bigger / fancier FPGA boards).
Like, I had been tempted with wanting to get a fancier Kintex board, but the cost of this is a little steep for someone who doesn't exactly have a high-payed job (or any job, say, due to virus-related layoffs...).
If I get enough, maybe I wouldn't need a day job and could focus more of my time on programming and similar, which is more what I find enjoyable, and it would be nice to know if anyone cares about the stuff I work on.