-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)
