Bram Cohen
Inventor of BitTorrent protocol, computer programmer, crypto enthusiast, founder of Chia Network
Aaron Swartz
Computer programmer aka Aaron Schwartz, software engineer, co-founder of Reddit, co-creator of RSS, Markdown, Creative Commons, committed suicide, FBI warrant after downloading millions of JSTOR documents at MIT
1986-2013 (27)
Ada Lovelace
Mathematician, computer programmer before computers were mainstream
Adam Back
cypherpunk, blockchain tech, cryptographer, Bitcoin crytocurrency, inventor of Hashcash in 1997 and finalized the whitepaper in 2002, Hashcash – A Denial of Service Counter-Measure
cypherspace.org
Andy Rubin
Software engineer, computer programmer, robotics, inventor of Android and sold it to Google for $50 million, founder of Danger Inc. that invented the T-Mobile Sidekick
Aubrey Cottle living
Hacker aka Kirtaner, founding member of Anonymous, computer programmer, cybersecurity expert, software developer
1987- (37)
Biz Stone
Computer programmer, software engineer, inventor, co-founder of Twitter
Blake Ross
Computer programmer, software engineer, inventor, co-founder of Mozilla Foundation known for the FireFox web browser
Bob Fabry
Computer programmer, founder of Computer Systems Research Group (with DARPA funding), inventor of AT&T Unix file system
Bob Kahn
Computer programmer, software engineer, co-inventor of TCP/IP protocol
Bob Sproull living
computer scientist, computer programmer, director of Oracle Labs, researcher at Sun Microsystems, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
1945- (79)
cics.umass.edu
Brian Kernighan living
Computer scientist, co-inventor of C programming language, computer programmer
1942- (82)
Daniel Larimer
Cryptographer, inventor of Delegated Proof of Stake (DPOS) consensus system
Dave Hyatt
Computer programmer, software engineer, inventor, co-founder of Mozilla Foundation known for the FireFox web browser
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) living
Inventor of Ruby on Rails, co-founder and CTO of Basecamp, HEY email, car racing driver
1979- (45)
dhh.dk
Eugene Kaspersky living
Billionaire, cybersecurity expert, software programmer, founder and CEO of Kaspersky Labs in 1997, his son Ivan Kaspersky was kidnapped in 2011
1965- (59)
Evan Williams
Computer programmer, software engineer, co-founder of Twitter, Blogger, Medium
Frank Land living
Computer programmer, pioneer of information theory, UK professor of Information Systems, Department of IT at the London School of Economics
1928- (96)
archivesit.org.uk
Gary Kildall
Computer programmer, founder of Digital Research and inventor of the first computer operating system
Harlan Anderson
early internet pioneer, computer engineer, programmer, angel investor, entrepreneur, co-founder of DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), worked at the Lincoln Laboratory, IT director at TIME Inc., trustee at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), author of Learn, Earn & Return: My Life as a Computer Pioneer
1929-2019 (90)
Henry Spencer living
Computer programmer, inventor of Regex (regular expressions)
1955- (69)
Isai Scheinberg
Founder of PYR, his son Mark Scheinberg created PokerStars.com out of this PYR tech company, computer programmer for IBM Canada
Jackson Palmer
Software engineer at Adobe, inventor of Dogecoin, cypherpunk, cryptographer, YouTuber, crypto enthusiast
ummjackson.com
James H. Clark living
Billionaire, co-founder of Netscape, Mosaic web browser, computer programmer, entrepreneur
1944- (80)
James Gosling
Computer programmer, co-creator of Java programming language
Jay Forrester
Inventor of the first personal computer (PC) to study climate change for Volkwagen
Jean-Jacques Quisquater
cryptographer, professor at University of Louvain
be.linkedin.com
John McCarthy
computer programmer, inventor, creator of Lisp programming language
Jon Oringer living
Billionaire, stock photography, founder and CEO of Shutterstock, computer programmer
1974- (50)
Joshua Schulte living
CIA whistleblower, released Vault 7 documents to WikiLeaks, computer programmer, political activist
1988- (36)
Ken Kocienda
Computer programmer at Apple, inventor of predictive touch keyboard, auto-correct using dictionary keywords
Matt Mullenweg living
CEO of Automattic (WordPress), web developer, computer programmer, early Internet pioneer in content management systems (or CMS software) and open-source software
1984- (40)
ma.tt
Michael Carter
Computer programmer, inventor of WebSocket protocol, sold Hello World Company to Life360
Michael Riconosciuto living
Computer programmer modifying the PROMIS software working at Inslaw, The Octopus
1948- (76)
Nick Szabo
Computer programmer, software engineer, cypherpunk, blockchain techn, Bitcoin cryptographer, credited with the idea of smart contracts in cryptocurrency, crypto enthusiast, inventor of Bit Gold
Peiter Zatko living
Cybersecurity expert aka Mudge, hacker, computer programmer
1970- (54)
Ralph H. Baer
inventor of video games, computer programmer, Father of Video Games
Ray Ozzie
Chief Software Architect of Microsoft Live Mesh, software engineer, military-grade secure networks at Groove
Scott Forstall
computer programmer for Apple, co-creator of iOS that was a smaller version of macOS
Scott McNealy
Computer programmer, entrepreneur, businessman, co-founder of Sun Microsystems in 1982
Shawn Fanning
Co-founder of Naspter, lead developer, computer programmer, founder of Helium
crunchbase.com
Wei Dai
cypherpunk, blockchain tech, cryptographer, inventor of B-Money
Yuri Sagalov
Inventor of AeroFS, computer programmer, founder and CEO of Redbooth
Yves Pigneur
computer scientist, designer, co-founder of Strategyzer, co-creator of the Business Model Canvas (BMC), professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) at the University of Lausanne since 1984
strategyzer.com