Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds

male, 39 years old
Linux, open source software, Linux kernel, computer programmer, softwareengineer, Finnish…free software programmer, free software, software engineering, Finnish software engineer
Linus Benedict Torvalds ; born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of...
Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts

male
Google, SEO, Google employee, spam killer, blogger, SMX Advanced Seattle 2007 attendee…Google Engineer, softwareengineer, Google Software Engineer
Matt Cutt's wants you to use 'no follow' so that Google can provide better search results. He also has a vested interest in increasing Google's...
Joel Spolsky

Joel Spolsky

male, 44 years old
Joel on Software, blogger, tech blogger, FogBugz, software engineering, Jewish…Fog Creek Software, Best Software Writing, softwareengineer
Joel Spolsky started his web log, www.joelonsoftware.com, in March 2000 in order to offer his insights, based on years of experience, on how to...
Fred Brooks

Fred Brooks

male, 78 years old
softwareengineer, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Harvard University alumni, International Business Machines, Doctor of Philosophy, Turing Award
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of...
Joshua Bloch

Joshua Bloch

male
Java platform, softwareengineer, Google, Google employee, carnegie-mellon university, Sun Microsystems
Joshua Bloch is a software engineer, currently a Principal Engineer at Google. Previously he was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and a...
Andrew Morton

Andrew Morton

male, 50 years old
Linux kernel hacker, computer programmer, OSDL, Sydney, Australia, Open Source Development Labs, Ottawa Linux Symposium…open source software, software engineering, free software programmer, softwareengineer
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...
Bruce Perens

Bruce Perens

male (Berkeley, California, United States)
Debian Project leader, Vice President of Developer Relations and Policy, open source advisor, hacker, pixtar, open source…open source software, free software movement, Software in the Public Interest, free software programmer, softwareengineer
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...
Bill Joy

Bill Joy

male, 55 years old (San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States)
Sun Microsystems, computer scientist, computer programmer, bsd, KPCB - Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, computer pioneer…electrical engineer, softwareengineer
Bill Joy served as Sun's Chief Scientist until 2003, and is now a partner with venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.
Theo de Raadt

Theo de Raadt

male, 41 years old
computer programmer, Free Software Community, From Calgary, softwareengineer, openssh, Openbsd…free software programmer
Theo de Raadt,, born May 19, 1968 in Pretoria, South Africa, is a software engineer and hacker who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is the...
Mark Russinovich

Mark Russinovich

male
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni, Microsoft, Sysinternals, Technical Fellow, rensselaer polytechnic institute, Carnegie Mellon University…softwareengineer, Winternals Software
Mark Russinovich is a software engineer and author who works for Microsoft as a Technical fellow. He is a regular contributor to "TechNet Magazine"...