People

Famous

• Uncle Bob Martin - @unclebobmartin
  • Books include Clean Code and Clean Architecture
• John Carmack - @ID_AA_Carmack
  • Creator of Doom and Quake, CTO at Oculus, now doing AGI research.
• Donald Knuth
  • Profile in Quanta Magazine

Languages

• Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Creator of The C++ Programming Language.
• James Gosling - @errcraft
  • Creator of Java. Now at Amazon (AWS).
• Guido van Rossum - @gvanrossum
  • Creator of Python.

Linux

• Brendan Gregg
  • Large scale cloud computing performance at Netflix.
• Linus Torvalds
  • Creator of Linux and Git.

Video Games

• Eric Lengyel
  • Member of the ICE Team, an internal Sony technology group.
• Will Wright
  • Creator of SimCity and other Sim games at Maxis.
• Tyler Young - @TylerAYoung
  • Laminar Research, creators of the X-Plane flight simulator.