| -Tom Chi (co-creator Google Glass) -Grady Booch (creator the Unified Modeling Language) -David Heinemeier Hansson (inventor of Ruby on Rails) -Brian Fox (invented the GNU Bash shell) -Hakon Wium Lie (inventor of CSS) -Alex Gaynor (Director, Python Software Foundation, and core committer to Django) -Sarah Allen (Presidential Innovation Fellow, led development for many Adobe products) -Gilad Bracha (co-author of the Java Language Specification) -Kent Beck (creator of Extreme Programming, created Test Driven Development, co-created Agile, author of 9 books) -Ward Cunningham (inventor of the wiki, contributed to Extreme Programming, co-author of Design Patterns) -Hampton Catlin (creator of Sass, Haml, m.wikipedia.org, book author) -Matei Zaharia (creator of Apache Spark) -Melody Meckfessel (Google Director of Engineering) -Jon Skeet (the top answerer on StackOverflow) -Scott Hanselman (author of multiple books) -Jeff Haynie (founder of Appcelerator) -Ryan Bubinski (founder of Codecademy) -Aaron Skonnard (founder of Pluralsight) -Floyd Marinescu (founder of InfoQ) -Steve Newcomb (founder of Famo.us) -Orion Henry (founder of Heroku) -Janet Wiener (Engineering at Facebook, big data expert) -Scott Chacon (CIO, Github) -Chad Fowler (CTO, Wunderlist, well-known programming educator and blogger) -Salil Deshpande (open source investor titan) -Hadi Partovi (founder of Code.org, was in charge of Internet Explorer, advisor to Dropbox and Facebook) -Rebecca Parsons (CTO at Thoughtworks) -Qi Lu (Executive vice president of Microsoft’s Applications and Services Group) -Chris Richardson (Java Champion, book author, founder of CloudFoundry) -Bram Cohen (Inventor of Bittorrent) |