Mike Pondsmith

Mike is best known for his work for the publisher R. Talsorian Games, where he developed a majority of the company's role-playing game lines since the company's founding in 1982.

Pondsmith is credited as an author of several RPG lines, including Mekton (1984), Teenagers from Outer Space (1987), Cyberpunk: The Roleplaying Game of the Dark Future (1988) and Castle Falkenstein (1994). He also contributed to the Forgotten Realms and Oriental Adventures lines of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. He worked in various capacities on video games, and authored or co-created several board games. Pondsmith also worked as an instructor at the DigiPen Institute of Technology.

Source: https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Mike_Pondsmith