Software Engineers

Mike Lynch

Founder of Autonomy, once called Britain’s Bill Gates

1965 – 2024

Max Levchin

Ukrainian-born PayPal co-founder and CEO of Affirm

Born 1975

Jawed Karim

YouTube co-founder who uploaded its first video, “Me at the zoo”

Born 1979

Ian Murdock

Founder of Debian, one of the most influential Linux distributions

1973 – 2015

Gil Shwed

Israeli co-founder of Check Point, inventor of the stateful firewall

Garrett Camp

Canadian entrepreneur who co-founded Uber and StumbleUpon

Born 1978

Eric Yuan

Chinese-American founder and CEO of Zoom

Born 1970

David Filo

Co-founder of Yahoo! and its “Chief Yahoo”

Born 1966

Dan Bricklin

Co-creator of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program

Born 1951

Colin Huang

Former Google engineer who founded Pinduoduo and Temu’s parent PDD

Born 1980

Bobby Murphy

Co-founder and chief technology officer of Snap

Born 1988

Marissa Mayer

Google’s first female engineer and CEO of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017

Born 1975

Jyoti Bansal

Founder of AppDynamics and Harness

Ding Lei

Founder and CEO of NetEase, a Chinese gaming and internet giant

Born 1971

Sanjay Ghemawat

Google engineer who co-designed MapReduce, Bigtable and the Google File System

Ryan Dahl

Creator of Node.js and Deno

Born 1981

Robin Li

Co-founder and CEO of Baidu, China’s leading search engine

Born 1968

Robert Griesemer

Swiss computer scientist who co-designed the Go language and worked on V8

Born 1964

Pierre Omidyar

Founder of eBay and philanthropist

Born 1967

Mike Krieger

Brazilian co-founder of Instagram who later joined Anthropic

Born 1986

Greg Brockman

Co-founder and president of OpenAI

Born 1987

Drew Houston

Co-founder and CEO of Dropbox

Born 1983

Charles Simonyi

Hungarian-born creator of Microsoft Word and Excel who flew twice to space

Born 1948

Brian Armstrong

Co-founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase

Born 1983