The development of SPPARKS has been funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE), through its LDRD and ASC programs.
SPPARKS development was originally led by Steve Plimpton, Aidan Thompson and Alex Slepoy. The current SPPARKS developers are John Mitchell and Svetoslav Nikolov (Sandia National Labs). Current authors can be contacted at jamitch@sandia.gov and snikolo@sandia.gov respectively. Past developers and other significant code contributores are listed below. All were at Sandia Labs at the time unless otherwise noted:
| Oct25 | HCP BOR variants | John Mitchell, Svetoslav Nikolov, Laura Vietz | |
| Oct25 | Stitch api and performance updates | John Mitchell, Jay Lofstead | |
| Oct25 | diag_cluster update | Aidan Thompson | |
| Nov24 | app potts/quaternion | John Mitchell and Meg McCarthy | |
| Sep23 | app potts/am/bezier | John Mitchell and Jeremy Trageser | |
| Jun22 | app diffusion/multiphase | John Mitchell | |
| Jul20 | dump stitch, set stitch | John Mitchell | |
| Jul20 | dump stitch, set stitch | John Mitchell | |
| Jul20 | Stitch package and library | John Mitchell and Jay Lofstead | |
| Jul20 | app potts/am/path/test | John Mitchell | |
| Jul20 | am_build, am_pass, am_path, am_path_layer commands | John Mitchell | |
| May17 | am_cartesian_layer, am_pass, am_pattern, am_transverse_pass commands | Theron Rodgers and John Mitchell | |
| May17 | app potts/additive | Theron Rodgers and John Mitchell | |
| May17 | weld_shape_teardrop command | John Mitchell | |
| May17 | app potts/strain/pin | John Mitchell | |
| Oct16 | app potts/weld/jom | Theron Rodgers | |
| Sep16 | app potts/weld | John Mitchell | |
| Mar16 | app sinter | Veena Tikare | |
| Dec15 | app potts/pfm (phasefield model) | Eric Homer and Veena Tikare | |
| Mar15 | diag cluster | Aidan Thompson | |
| Jul11 | dump image | Nathan Fabian | |
| Jun11 | diag array | Eric Homer | |
| Jan10 | app erbium and diag erbium | Corbett Battaile | |
| Dec09 | app sos | Greg Wagner | |
| Nov09 | barrier command | Ed Webb | |
| Nov09 | deposition command | Ed Webb | |
| Nov09 | app diffusion | Greg Wagner and Xiaowang Zhou |
Several materials scientists at Sandia also helped in the original design of SPPARKS and testing of new models: