[samblr]

How about having a criteria as someone who has built successful repositories / architectures / products / company where they were one of main programmers ? In this forum we may have few or know who match this criteria. Can anybody share about them.

Personally I know one of architect in my previous employers. Three qualities stood out - passion, work ethic and down-to-earth apart from tech brilliance.

Passionate - you could compare him to an elite athlete. All the time practicing - in this case coding, tinkering, building.

Work ethic - crazy work ethic. More hours. Days nights did not matter. I had to go to office on two late nights. Once he was there coding and another time he was sleeping on floor.

Down to earth: he was just down to earth. very serene and easy to talk to.