Fred Damberger is the author of many of the CARA templates, LUA scripts and many parts of the documentation Wiki. Fred received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of California (1994) and is a member of the Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy Platform in the Biology department, and a staff scientist of the Allain group at the ETH.

Rochus Keller is the author of CARA and the NAF. He started the development of CARA as part of his Ph.D. thesis “Optimizing the process of nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum analysis and computer aided resonance assignment” in the group of Prof. Dr. Kurt Wüthrich at the ETH (2000-2004). He continues development and maintenance of CARA on voluntary basis in parallel with his regular job.