Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds

male, 39 years old
Linus Benedict Torvalds ; born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of...
Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman

male, 56 years old
Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation. Builder AU recently caught up with RMS about his achievements,...
Miguel de Icaza

Miguel de Icaza

male, 37 years old
Miguel de Icaza (born c. 1972) is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects. Miguel de Icaza was born...
Bruce Perens

Bruce Perens

male (Berkeley, California, United States)
Bruce Perens is a former Debian GNU/Linux Project Leader, the primary author of the Open Source Definition, a founder of Software in the Public...
Eric S. Raymond

Eric S. Raymond

male, 52 years old
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is a computer programmer, author and advocate for the open source movement....
Larry Wall

Larry Wall

male, 55 years old
Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in...
Andrew Morton

Andrew Morton

male, 50 years old
Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959 in England) is an Australian software engineer, best known as one of the lead developers on the Linux kernel...
Jeff Waugh

Jeff Waugh

male
Jeff Waugh (known as "jdub") is an Australian free software and open source software developer. He is a consultant for Waugh Partners and is very...
Fabrizio Capobianco

Fabrizio Capobianco

male
Fabrizio Capobianco is CEO of Funambol, the company behind the Funambol mobile open source project. He is a highly regarded expert on open source...
Sam Ruby

Sam Ruby

male (Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, United States)
Sam Ruby is a prominent software developer who has made significant contributions to many of the Apache Software Foundation's open source software...