- Robert M. Fuhrer, project lead, SAFARI core, and JikesPG IDE
- Philippe Charles, LPG and parsing, language services, JikesPG IDE, X10DT, and SAFARI UI
- Stan Sutton, IDE services, IDE preferences support, SAFARI core
- Mandana Vaziri, IDE debugging support
- Julian Dolby, static analysis supporting IDE services
SAFARI is being developed primarily at the T. J. Watson Research Center (Hawthorne), in the Programming Languages and Software Engineering Department, in the Program Analysis & Transformation Group, which is managed by Frank Tip.
SAFARI has its roots in a project called "Universal IDE" which was started by Chris Laffra.