Infrastructure Maintainers

Meet the dedicated individuals who keep critical open source infrastructure running.

Andrew Morton

Andrew Morton

Linux Kernel -mm Tree Maintainer

Projects
Linux Kernel
Theodore Ts'o

Theodore Ts'o

Linux Kernel Filesystem Maintainer

Projects
Linux Kernel
Thomas Gleixner

Thomas Gleixner

Linux Kernel Core Maintainer

Projects
Linux Kernel
Aaron Patterson

Aaron Patterson

Rails Core Team

Projects
Rails Ruby
Addy Osmani

Addy Osmani

Web Performance Expert

Projects
Chrome DevTools Lighthouse
Anders Hejlsberg

Anders Hejlsberg

TypeScript Lead Designer

Projects
TypeScript C# Turbo Pascal
Andrej Karpathy

Andrej Karpathy

AI Researcher and Educator

Projects
Tesla Autopilot OpenAI
Andrew Kelley

Andrew Kelley

Zig Creator

Projects
Zig
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Andrew Ng

AI Pioneer

Projects
Coursera deeplearning.ai
Anthony Fu

Anthony Fu

Vue and Vite Core Team

Projects
Vite Vue Slidev UnoCSS
Antirez

Antirez

Redis Creator

Projects
Redis
Armin Ronacher

Armin Ronacher

Flask and Rye Creator

Projects
Flask Jinja Werkzeug Rye
Avdi Grimm

Avdi Grimm

Ruby Developer and Educator

Projects
Ruby Tapas Graceful.Dev
Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup

C++ Creator

Projects
C++
Brendan Eich

Brendan Eich

JavaScript Creator

Projects
JavaScript Brave Browser
Brendan Gregg

Brendan Gregg

Performance Engineer

Projects
BPF Tools DTrace
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Brian Kernighan

Unix Pioneer and Author

Projects
Unix AWK
Bryan Cantrill

Bryan Cantrill

Systems Programmer

Projects
DTrace Oxide
Caleb Porzio

Caleb Porzio

Livewire and Alpine.js Creator

Projects
Livewire Alpine.js
Carlos O'Donell

Carlos O'Donell

GNU C Library Maintainer

Projects
Glibc GNU Toolchain
Charity Majors

Charity Majors

Observability Pioneer

Projects
Honeycomb
Chris Lattner

Chris Lattner

LLVM and Swift Creator

Projects
LLVM Swift Clang Mojo
Chris McCord

Chris McCord

Phoenix Framework Creator

Projects
Phoenix LiveView
Chris Wanstrath

Chris Wanstrath

GitHub Co-Founder

Projects
GitHub
D. Richard Hipp

D. Richard Hipp

SQLite Creator

Projects
SQLite Fossil
Dan Abramov

Dan Abramov

React Core Team

Projects
React Redux
Daniel Stenberg

Daniel Stenberg

curl Creator and Lead Maintainer

Projects
curl libcurl
David Heinemeier Hansson

David Heinemeier Hansson

Ruby on Rails Creator

Projects
Ruby on Rails Basecamp
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Dennis Ritchie

C and Unix Co-Creator

Projects
C Unix
D

Douglas Crockford

JavaScript Pioneer

Projects
JSON JSLint
Drew DeVault

Drew DeVault

SourceHut Founder

Projects
SourceHut Sway wlroots
Eric S. Raymond

Eric S. Raymond

Open Source Advocate

Projects
fetchmail gpsd
Evan You

Evan You

Vue.js and Vite Creator

Projects
Vue.js Vite
Fabrice Bellard

Fabrice Bellard

FFmpeg and QEMU Creator

Projects
FFmpeg QEMU TinyCC
Feross Aboukhadijeh

Feross Aboukhadijeh

JavaScript Security

Projects
WebTorrent Socket
Filipe Fortes

Filipe Fortes

ESLint Maintainer

Projects
ESLint
George Hotz

George Hotz

Hacker and Entrepreneur

Projects
comma.ai tinygrad
Graydon Hoare

Graydon Hoare

Rust Creator

Projects
Rust
Greg Kroah-Hartman

Greg Kroah-Hartman

Linux Kernel Stable Maintainer

Projects
Linux Kernel
Guido van Rossum

Guido van Rossum

Python Creator

Projects
Python
Guillermo Rauch

Guillermo Rauch

Vercel CEO and Next.js

Projects
Vercel Next.js Socket.io
Igor Sysoev

Igor Sysoev

Nginx Creator

Projects
Nginx
Ilya Grigorik

Ilya Grigorik

Web Performance Expert

Projects
High Performance Browser Networking
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James Gosling

Java Creator

Projects
Java
James Halliday

James Halliday

Node.js Pioneer

Projects
Browserify Tape
Jarred Sumner

Jarred Sumner

Bun Creator

Projects
Bun
Jeff Geerling

Jeff Geerling

Ansible and DevOps Educator

Projects
Ansible Raspberry Pi Projects
Jessie Frazelle

Jessie Frazelle

Container Pioneer

Projects
Docker Kubernetes
J

John Carmack

Graphics Pioneer

Projects
Doom Quake VR
John Papa

John Papa

Developer Advocate

Projects
Angular VS Code
Jordan Walke

Jordan Walke

React Creator

Projects
React Reason
Jose Valim

Jose Valim

Elixir Creator

Projects
Elixir Phoenix
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Josh Bloch

Java APIs Designer

Projects
Java Collections Effective Java
Josh Long

Josh Long

Spring Developer Advocate

Projects
Spring Spring Boot
Julia Evans

Julia Evans

Systems Educator

Projects
Zines jvns.ca
Junio C Hamano

Junio C Hamano

Git Maintainer

Projects
Git
Kelsey Hightower

Kelsey Hightower

Kubernetes Advocate

Projects
Kubernetes
Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson

Unix and Go Co-Creator

Projects
Unix Go UTF-8
Kent C. Dodds

Kent C. Dodds

React Testing Expert

Projects
Testing Library EpicReact
Kyle Simpson

Kyle Simpson

JavaScript Educator

Projects
You Don't Know JS
Lea Verou

Lea Verou

CSS Expert

Projects
CSS WG Mavo
Lex Fridman

Lex Fridman

AI Researcher and Podcaster

Projects
Lex Fridman Podcast
Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds

Linux Kernel Creator and Lead Maintainer

Projects
Linux Kernel Git
Mark Adler

Mark Adler

zlib Co-Creator

Projects
zlib gzip
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Martin Fowler

Software Architecture Author

Projects
Refactoring ThoughtWorks
Matt Klein

Matt Klein

Envoy Proxy Creator

Projects
Envoy
Matteo Collina

Matteo Collina

Node.js TSC

Projects
Node.js Fastify Pino
Matthias Felleisen

Matthias Felleisen

Programming Languages Educator

Projects
Racket HtDP
Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

React Router Creator

Projects
React Router Remix
Misko Hevery

Misko Hevery

Angular Creator

Projects
Angular AngularJS Qwik
Mitchell Hashimoto

Mitchell Hashimoto

HashiCorp Co-Founder

Projects
Vagrant Terraform Vault Consul
Nadia Eghbal

Nadia Eghbal

Open Source Researcher

Projects
Working in Public Roads and Bridges
Nicolás Bevacqua

Nicolás Bevacqua

JavaScript Educator

Projects
Ponyfoo Dragula
Paul Irish

Paul Irish

Chrome DevTools

Projects
Chrome DevTools HTML5 Boilerplate
Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew

CSS Grid Expert

Projects
CSS Grid MDN
Rasmus Lerdorf

Rasmus Lerdorf

PHP Creator

Projects
PHP
Rich Harris

Rich Harris

Svelte and Rollup Creator

Projects
Svelte Rollup SvelteKit
Rich Hickey

Rich Hickey

Clojure Creator

Projects
Clojure Datomic
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Richard Stallman

GNU Project Founder

Projects
GNU GCC Emacs
Rob Pike

Rob Pike

Go Language Co-Creator

Projects
Go Plan 9 UTF-8
Ryan Dahl

Ryan Dahl

Node.js and Deno Creator

Projects
Node.js Deno
Ryan Florence

Ryan Florence

Remix Co-Creator

Projects
Remix React Router
Salvatore Sanfilippo

Salvatore Sanfilippo

Redis Creator

Projects
Redis
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Sandi Metz

OOP Expert

Projects
POODR 99 Bottles of OOP
Sebastian McKenzie

Sebastian McKenzie

Babel and Rome Creator

Projects
Babel Rome Biome
Sebastian Ramirez

Sebastian Ramirez

FastAPI Creator

Projects
FastAPI Typer SQLModel
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Simon Peyton Jones

Haskell Lead Designer

Projects
Haskell GHC
Sindre Sorhus

Sindre Sorhus

Node.js Package Maintainer

Projects
Awesome Lists Got Chalk
Solomon Hykes

Solomon Hykes

Docker Creator

Projects
Docker Dagger
Steve Klabnik

Steve Klabnik

Rust Documentation Lead

Projects
Rust
Tanner Linsley

Tanner Linsley

TanStack Creator

Projects
React Query TanStack Table TanStack Router
Taylor Otwell

Taylor Otwell

Laravel Creator

Projects
Laravel Forge Vapor
Theo de Raadt

Theo de Raadt

OpenBSD and OpenSSH Founder

Projects
OpenBSD OpenSSH
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Tim Berners-Lee

World Wide Web Inventor

Projects
WWW HTTP HTML
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Titus Winters

C++ Expert

Projects
Abseil Software Engineering at Google
TJ Holowaychuk

TJ Holowaychuk

Express.js Creator

Projects
Express.js Koa Commander.js
Tobias Koppers

Tobias Koppers

webpack Creator

Projects
webpack Turbopack
Travis Oliphant

Travis Oliphant

NumPy Creator

Projects
NumPy SciPy Anaconda
Vicki Boykis

Vicki Boykis

ML Engineer and Writer

Projects
Viberary Normconf
Werner Koch

Werner Koch

GnuPG Creator and Maintainer

Projects
GnuPG Libgcrypt
Wes McKinney

Wes McKinney

Pandas Creator

Projects
pandas Apache Arrow
Yehuda Katz

Yehuda Katz

Ember.js and Rust Contributor

Projects
Ember.js jQuery Rust Cargo
Yukihiro Matsumoto

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Ruby Creator

Projects
Ruby
Zach Holman

Zach Holman

GitHub Early Employee

Projects
GitHub

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