c-ares is based on ares, and these are the people that have worked on it since
the fork was made:

Daniel Stenberg
Dominick Meglio
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James Bursa
Duncan Wilcox
Dirk Manske
Dan Fandrich
Gisle Vanem
Gunter Knauf
Henrik Stoerner
Yang Tse
Nick Mathewson
Alexander Lazic
Andreas Rieke
Guilherme Balena Versiani
Brad Spencer
Ravi Pratap
William Ahern
Bram Matthys