Quote - The link being "no follow" or not doesn't really matter since the entire name and email address was in the search paragraph.

AFAIK, Google's webcrawler doesn't fetch/index pages from links tagged as "nofollow".

If you put your name and email in something that's linked on a site that Google indexes, it's hardly surprising that it shows up in searches, especially when it's at the beginning of the document.
Moving that info to the end of the ReadMe ought to stop it showing up in the summary.