Software Developers

Jeff Atwood

Co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse

Rich Hickey

Creator of the Clojure programming language and Datomic database

Pavel Durov

Russian-born founder of VK and the Telegram messaging app

Born 1984

Moxie Marlinspike

Cryptographer who created the Signal messaging app and protocol

Mark Shuttleworth

South African entrepreneur who founded Ubuntu and flew to the space station

Born 1973

Jack Dorsey

Co-founder of Twitter and of the payments company Block (Square)

Born 1976

Dries Buytaert

Belgian creator of the Drupal content-management system

Born 1978

Bill Gates

Co-founder of Microsoft and one of the world’s leading philanthropists

Born 1955