adding readme badges and pyproject author

[arik-shurygin]

a small commit meant to work on #314 but not closing that yet until we set up auto changelogs on release, badges will now display the package version which can be incremented by each PR into main.

I am going to assume that we will transition into a staging-> production format where main will be reserved for each release and sets of PRs will be made into a staging branch before going out as a release in main. This has not been something we have been doing up to this point due to the early nature of the project.