People
People in developer tools
138 people in the USASI People directory whose profiles list developer tools as a field of their work. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only, cited to official pages.
0xSero
Developer; the Omacom Foundation's announcement names Sybil Solutions as 0xSero's company, Sybil Solutions
Developer of the Local AI Registry, tested recipes for running open models on specific GPUs
Abubakar Abid
Machine learning team lead, working on Gradio, Hugging Face
Co-founder of the Gradio library and machine learning team lead at Hugging Face
Adam Fourney
Senior Principal Researcher, Human-AI eXperiences (HAX) group, AI Frontiers, Microsoft Research
Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research; author of MarkItDown and first author of Magentic-One
Adam Selipsky
Member of the Board of Directors, Circle Internet Group
Former CEO of Amazon Web Services; member of Circle's board of directors since July 2025
Adrien Gallouët
Hugging Face is the company listed on Gallouët's GitHub profile, Hugging Face
Member of llama.cpp's llama-server and shared-code code-owner teams; Hugging Face
Akshat Bubna
Co-founder and CTO, Modal
Co-founder and CTO of Modal, the serverless cloud platform for AI and data workloads
Aldehir Rojas
Member of the llama-common code-owner team, llama.cpp project
llama.cpp shared-code owner working on chat parsing, tool calls and JSON-schema grammars
Alessio Fanelli
Podcast co-host, Latent Space
Co-host of the Latent Space podcast for AI engineers and a partner at Decibel
Alex Finn
Instructor, Vibe Coding Academy
YouTube creator teaching AI-assisted coding with Claude Code and Codex; teaches Vibe Coding Academy
Amjad Masad
Founder and CEO, Replit
Founder and CEO of Replit; former tech lead on Facebook's JavaScript infrastructure team
Andreas C. Müller
Principal Research SDE, Gray Systems Lab, Microsoft
Core developer and co-maintainer of scikit-learn; Principal Research SDE at Microsoft
Andrew Laack
Product engineer, Imbue
Product engineer at Imbue and creator of Vet, an open-source code review tool for agent-written code
Antje Barth
Member of Technical Staff — AI Product & Developer Experience, Amazon AGI
Member of Technical Staff at Amazon AGI; co-author of Generative AI on AWS and Data Science on AWS
argo
Maker, Fowl Labs
Maker of Fowl Labs Mac apps and NameThatUI, a visual dictionary of user interface terms
Arvind Jain
Founder and CEO, Glean
Founder and CEO of Glean, the enterprise AI platform; earlier co-founded Rubrik and led teams at Google
Ashesh Badani
Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Red Hat
Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer at Red Hat; previously led its cloud platforms business
Baptiste Rozière
Research scientist in the code generation team, Meta AI
First author of Code Llama and co-author of LLaMA and Llama 3; later an author on Mistral AI model papers
Ben Davis
Co-host, Nerd Snipe
Developer and YouTuber who co-hosts the Nerd Snipe podcast with Theo and writes about AI tools
Binyuan Hui
Staff Research Scientist, Qwen Team, Alibaba Group
Initiator of OpenDevin (now OpenHands); StarCoder2 co-author and first author of the Qwen2.5-Coder report
Boris Cherny
Software Engineer; creator and Head of Claude Code, Anthropic
Creator and Head of Claude Code at Anthropic; author of O'Reilly's Programming TypeScript
Bratin Saha
Vice President and General Manager of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Data Infrastructure, Amazon Web Services
Former AWS vice president for AI, machine learning and data infrastructure services
Brooklyn Nicholson
Contributor, Hermes Agent
Hermes Agent contributor credited with desktop-app work, including its guided first-launch setup
Chang She
Founder, LanceDB
Founder of LanceDB, an open-source vector database built on the Lance format; early pandas co-author
Charles Lamanna
Executive Vice President, Copilot, Agents, and Platform, Microsoft
Executive Vice President, Copilot, Agents, and Platform at Microsoft
Charlie Bell
Member of the Board of Directors, Tenable
Former AWS senior vice president and Microsoft security executive; Tenable board member since October 2026
Chip Huyen
ML tooling; core developer of NeMo, NVIDIA
Writer on AI system design; former NeMo core developer at NVIDIA and Stanford ML systems instructor
Chris Van Pelt
Distinguished Engineer and Cofounder, Weights & Biases
Co-founder and Distinguished Engineer of Weights & Biases, the machine learning developer platform
Chris Wright
Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Global Engineering, Red Hat
CTO and Senior Vice President of Global Engineering at Red Hat; longtime Linux kernel developer
Christian Cantrell
Founder and CPO (Chief Product/Prompt Officer), Reve AI
Founder and CPO of Reve AI; formerly led Adobe Design Prototyping and was VP of Product at Stability AI
Clare Liguori
Senior Principal Software Engineer, AWS Agentic AI (at Amazon since 2014), Amazon Web Services
AWS Senior Principal Software Engineer on Kiro and Strands Agents; core maintainer of the MCP spec
Clément Delangue
Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face
Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, whose Hub distributes open models and the libraries used to run them
Craig Federighi
Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, Apple
Apple senior vice president of Software Engineering, also responsible for Apple's core AI efforts
Dane Knecht
Chief Technology Officer, Cloudflare
Chief Technology Officer of Cloudflare; led Zero Trust, the Developer Platform and AI inference work
Daniel Bevenius
Hugging Face is the company listed on Bevenius's GitHub profile, Hugging Face
llama.cpp code owner for model-conversion tooling and member of its CI team; Hugging Face
David Bau
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Northeastern University
Northeastern professor studying neural-network internals; Bau's lab launched the NDIF project
David Heinemeier Hansson
Co-owner, 37signals
Creator of Omarchy, a Linux system that sets up local-model tools such as Ollama and LM Studio
David Ondrej
Creator and host, David Ondrej
YouTube creator covering AI agents and AI tools; builder of the Vectal task manager
Davide Eynard
Open-source and trustworthy AI work (blog author), Mozilla.ai
Mozilla.ai engineer working on open-source AI; author of the llamafile 0.10.0 release post
Eiso Kant
Co-founder and co-CEO, Poolside
Co-founder and co-CEO of Poolside, which builds open-weight foundation models for agentic coding
Emanuel Todorov
Research and development, Roboti LLC
Roboti LLC researcher whose lab built the MuJoCo physics engine; former UW and UC San Diego professor
Erik Bernhardsson
Founder and CEO, Modal
Founder and CEO of Modal; creator of the open-source Annoy library and co-creator of Luigi at Spotify
Erik Gafni
Founder and CTO, TypeSafe AI
Co-founder and CTO of TypeSafe AI; previously founded Ravel, a multimodal AI company for DNA sequencing
Gergely Orosz
Writer, The Pragmatic Engineer
Writer of The Pragmatic Engineer, a newsletter and podcast about software engineering at tech companies
Graham Neubig
Associate Professor, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon associate professor and Chief Scientist at OpenHands; co-author of the OpenHands paper
Guillermo Rauch
Founder and CEO, Vercel
Founder and CEO of Vercel; co-author of Next.js and author of Socket.IO and Mongoose
Hamel Husain
ML engineer and independent consultant, Parlance Labs
ML engineer and consultant at Parlance Labs; earlier applied ML at GitHub and first author of CodeSearchNet
Harold Booth
Computer Scientist, Software Security Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST computer scientist in the Software Security Group; co-author of the Dioptra AI test platform
Harrison Chase
Co-founder, LangChain
Started the open-source LangChain framework and co-founded LangChain, the company behind it
Jake VanderPlas
Company listed on Jake VanderPlas's GitHub profile, Google
Named author of JAX who has written several of its design proposals
James Bergstra
Research Scholar, David Cox's biological and computer vision group at the Rowland Institute, Harvard University
First author of the Hyperopt paper and co-developer of Theano; former Research Scholar at Harvard
Jared Palmer
VP of Engineering, Cognition
VP of Engineering at Cognition; created Vercel's AI SDK and v0 while VP of AI at Vercel
Jason Warner
Co-founder and co-CEO, Poolside
Co-founder and co-CEO of Poolside, which builds open-weight foundation models for agentic coding
Jay Parikh
Executive Vice President, CoreAI, Microsoft
Executive Vice President of CoreAI at Microsoft; former global head of engineering at Facebook
Jeff Barr
VP and Chief Evangelist, AWS, Amazon Web Services
VP and Chief Evangelist at AWS; started the AWS News Blog in 2004
Jeff Delaney
Creator, Fireship
Creator of Fireship, a YouTube channel of fast-paced code tutorials and tech news for developers
Jeff Geerling
Owner/President, Midwestern Mac, LLC
Developer, author, and YouTube creator covering Linux, Raspberry Pi, Ansible, and open-source infrastructure
Jeff Huber
Founder, Chroma
Founder of Chroma, the open-source search and retrieval database for AI applications
Jeffrey Morgan
Building Ollama, Ollama
Works on Ollama, an open-source tool for running open models on your own machine
Jerry Liu
CEO and co-founder, LlamaIndex
Author of the open-source LlamaIndex framework; CEO and co-founder of LlamaIndex
John Yang
Computer Science PhD student, Stanford University
Stanford PhD student; creator of SWE-bench and SWE-agent and senior author of the SWE-sweep benchmark
Josh Albrecht
CTO and co-founder, Imbue
Co-founder and CTO of Imbue and first author of the Avalon reinforcement learning benchmark
Josh Woodward
VP, Google Labs, Gemini app & AI Studio, Google
Google VP leading Google Labs, the Gemini app and AI Studio
Julien Chaumond
CTO, Hugging Face
CTO of Hugging Face; added the Hub's local-apps registry and works on the hf command-line tool
Julien Simon
AI Operating Partner, Fortino Capital
AI Operating Partner at Fortino Capital; former Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face and Arcee AI
Kanjun Qiu
CEO and co-founder, Imbue
Co-founder and CEO of Imbue, which builds open tools for running and verifying AI coding agents
Kent C. Dodds
Full-time educator, kentcdodds.com
Full-time software educator behind Epic Web, Epic React, Epic AI and Testing JavaScript courses
Kevin Scott
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft
Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft; earlier led engineering and operations at LinkedIn
Kilian Lieret
AI Research Scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs (joined February 2026), Meta
AI research scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs; lead author of the SWE-sweep bug-fixing benchmark
Kristian Fagerlie
Creator, All About AI
Creator of the All About AI YouTube channel and blog on AI agents and Claude Code workflows
Kyle Daigle
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Marketing Officer, GitHub
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of GitHub; at GitHub since 2013
Lars Grammel
Works on the AI SDK; co-author of its release posts since 2024, Vercel
Works on Vercel's AI SDK; first author of the AI SDK 5 release post and co-author of later releases
Linus Torvalds
Fellow, The Linux Foundation
Creator and maintainer of the Linux kernel and creator of Git; Fellow at the Linux Foundation
Logan Kilpatrick
Works on Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, enabling developers to build with Gemini, Google DeepMind
Works on helping developers build with Gemini at Google DeepMind; co-host of Around the Prompt
Luis Héctor Chávez
Chief Technology Officer, Replit
Chief Technology Officer of Replit, writing on its infrastructure, snapshot engine and platform security
Lukas Biewald
General Manager and Co-founder, Weights & Biases
Co-founder and General Manager of Weights & Biases (part of CoreWeave); founder of CrowdFlower/Figure Eight
Manik Surtani
CTO and Co-founder, Agentic AI Foundation
CTO and co-founder of the Agentic AI Foundation; previously Head of Open Source at Block
Manuvir Das
Operating Partner, Digital Infrastructure group, Stonepeak Partners
Stonepeak operating partner; as NVIDIA's Head of Enterprise Computing, launched NVIDIA AI Enterprise
maria
Contributor, T3 Code
Contributor to T3 Code, Ping.gg's open-source control app for coding agents
Mario Rodriguez
Chief Product Officer, GitHub
Chief Product Officer of GitHub, leading the GitHub Product team and its AI and Copilot strategy
Mark R. Florkowski
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Ping Labs
Co-founder and CTO of Ping Labs, the company behind T3 Chat, T3 Code and UploadThing
Mark Russinovich
Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft
CTO and Technical Fellow for Microsoft Azure; creator of Sysinternals
Matei Zaharia
Associate Professor of EECS, University of California, Berkeley
Started Apache Spark, helped develop MLflow and co-authored DSPy; UC Berkeley professor and Databricks CTO
Matt Garman
Chief Executive Officer, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services
CEO of Amazon Web Services since June 2024; first product manager for Amazon EC2
Matt Hicks
President and Chief Executive Officer, Red Hat
President and CEO of Red Hat and an IBM Senior Vice President; a founding engineer on the OpenShift team
Matthew Prince
Co-founder and CEO, Cloudflare
Co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, whose Workers platform runs AI models and applications at the network edge
Matthew Watson
Company listed on Matthew Watson's GitHub profile, Google
Named author of KerasHub, the pretrained-model library for Keras, and co-author of its getting-started guide
Michael Han
Listed on Unsloth's About page for design, product, and engineering, Unsloth
Works on Unsloth and is an area owner for the Studio UI, its web interface for running and training models
Michele Catasta
President (joined as VP of AI in 2023), Replit
President of Replit, where Catasta led the Replit Agent projects; former Google X applied research head
Nate Rush
Chief Technology Officer, METR
CTO of METR; previously founder and CEO of the Python tooling company Mito
Neel Nanda
Runs the mechanistic interpretability team, Google DeepMind
Runs the Google DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team; creator of the TransformerLens library
Nikita Shulga
Listed with Thinking Machines Lab as a panelist for the PyTorch 2.14 release Q&A (September 2026), Thinking Machines Lab
PyTorch core maintainer for the Apple MPS/Metal backend and for PyTorch's build and CI
Olivier Chafik
Anthropic is the company listed on Chafik's GitHub profile, Anthropic
MCP TypeScript SDK maintainer; added Jinja chat templates and tool calling to llama.cpp
Omar Khattab
Assistant Professor (leads the MIT OASYS lab), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
First author of DSPy and ColBERT; Assistant Professor at MIT EECS, where Khattab leads the OASYS lab
Omar Sanseviero
Developer Experience Lead, Google DeepMind
Developer Experience Lead at Google DeepMind, working on Gemma launches and developer guides
Paige Bailey
Engineering lead; Developer Experience Lead, Google DeepMind
Engineering lead for developer experience at Google DeepMind; contributor to the first Gemma open models
Patrick Wendell
Co-Founder and VP of Engineering, Databricks
Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Databricks, heading its AI efforts; Apache Spark committer
Paul Graham
Essayist, paulgraham.com
Programmer and essayist at paulgraham.com, author of Lisp books, co-founder of Viaweb and Y Combinator
Pedro Cuenca
Machine learning engineer, Hugging Face
Machine learning engineer at Hugging Face; Diffusers co-author and builder of on-device Swift tools
Peter Staar
Chairperson, Technical Advisory Council, LF AI & Data Foundation
IBM Research manager and Docling technical lead; chairs the LF AI & Data Technical Advisory Council
Peter Steinberger
Creator of OpenClaw and "Clawfather" of the foundation, continuing to steward the project, OpenClaw Foundation
Creator of OpenClaw, the open-source self-hosted AI assistant; works on agents at OpenAI
Philipp Schmid
Staff Engineer (Developer Experience and Developer Relations), Google DeepMind
Staff Engineer for developer experience at Google DeepMind; former Technical Lead at Hugging Face
Piero Molino
CEO and Co-founder, Studio Atelico
Creator of the Ludwig declarative deep learning framework; CEO and co-founder of Studio Atelico
Pierrick Hymbert
Developer (BNP Paribas is the company listed on Hymbert's GitHub profile), BNP Paribas
Contributor to llama.cpp's server, its test and benchmark workflows, and model support
Piotr Wilkin
Systems architect, Syndatis
Maintains llama.cpp's parser code and contributes to Lemonade; systems architect at Syndatis
Radoslav Gerganov
Code owner for the RPC backend (ggml-org/ggml-rpc), llama.cpp project
Code owner for llama.cpp's RPC backend, which offloads computation to remote machines
Reynold Xin
Co-Founder and Chief Architect, Databricks
Co-founder and Chief Architect of Databricks; Apache Spark committer and first author of Shark and GraphX
Robert Brennan
CEO, All Hands AI
CEO of OpenHands (All Hands AI), the open-source platform for coding agents
Sam Gross
Company listed on Sam Gross's GitHub profile, Thinking Machines
Co-author of the PyTorch paper and author of PEP 703, which makes CPython's GIL optional
San Oo
Chief Technology Officer (named May 2026), Abridge
Chief Technology Officer of Abridge, the clinical documentation AI company, since May 2026
Saoud Rizwan
Founder, Cline
Founder of Cline, the open-source AI coding agent for editors, the terminal and an SDK
Scott Hanselman
VP and Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft and GitHub
Programmer, teacher, and podcaster; host of Hanselminutes and VP at Microsoft and GitHub
Scott Tolinski
Co-host, Syntax
Co-host of the Syntax web development podcast and creator of Level Up Tutorials
Scott Wu
Founder and CEO, Cognition
Founder and CEO of Cognition, the company behind the Devin AI software engineer and Windsurf
Shantanu Jain
Works on language models, including training data and training infrastructure (since 2020), OpenAI
Author of OpenAI's tiktoken tokenizer; mypy and typeshed maintainer and CPython core developer
Shawn Lewis
Distinguished Engineer and Cofounder, Weights & Biases
Co-founder and Distinguished Engineer of Weights & Biases; first listed author of the W&B Weave package
Shawn Wang
Writer and podcast host, Latent Space
Writer and podcast host at Latent Space, a newsletter and podcast for AI engineers
Sigbjørn Skjæret
Hugging Face is the company listed on Skjæret's GitHub profile, Hugging Face
llama.cpp code owner for model conversion, gguf-py and core model code; Hugging Face
Simon Willison
Author, Simon Willison's Weblog
Writer of Simon Willison's Weblog on LLMs and software, creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django
Stefanie Chiras
Senior Vice President, The Open Accelerator, Red Hat
Senior Vice President, The Open Accelerator at Red Hat; previously led Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Steven Huels
Vice President of AI Engineering, Red Hat
Vice President of AI Engineering at Red Hat; a founder of Open Data Hub, which became Red Hat OpenShift AI
Swami Sivasubramanian
Vice President of Agentic AI, AWS, Amazon Web Services
Vice President of Agentic AI at AWS; co-author of Amazon's 2007 Dynamo paper
T.R. Vishwanath
Co-founder and CTO; Technical Infrastructure Lead, Glean
Co-founder and CTO of Glean, overseeing integrations with enterprise data sources
Terry Yue Zhuo
Research lead; founded the Qwen Cyber team, Alibaba Qwen
Lead author of the BigCodeBench code-generation benchmark; former research lead at Alibaba Qwen
ThePrimeagen
Creator, ThePrimeagen
Software video creator and course teacher focused on Vim, Rust, and TypeScript
Thomas J. Fan
Member of Technical Staff, Modal
scikit-learn maintainer; Member of Technical Staff at Modal
Thomas Kurian
CEO, Google Cloud, Google Cloud
CEO of Google Cloud, which offers Gemini Enterprise and Google's agent platform to businesses
Tim Baek
Creator and founder; leads the Open WebUI team, Open WebUI
Creator and founder of Open WebUI, a self-hosted AI interface for local and cloud models
Tim Costa
Vice president and general manager of quantum; leads the industrial engineering and quantum verticals and the CUDA-X product line, NVIDIA
VP and general manager of quantum at NVIDIA; earlier led product management for NVIDIA HPC software
Tim Davis
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Modular, Qualcomm
Co-founder of Modular, makers of Mojo and MAX; SVP and GM of Modular at Qualcomm, which acquired it in 2026
Timothy Carambat
Founder, Mintplex Labs
Founder of Mintplex Labs, maker of AnythingLLM, an AI application that runs locally by default
Tony Gentilcore
Co-founder, Engineering; Product Engineering lead, Glean
Co-founder of Glean and its Product Engineering lead; previously founded Google's Chrome Speed Team
Trevor Hastie
The John A. Overdeck Professor, Professor of Statistics, Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Emeritus, Stanford University
Maintainer of the glmnet package and co-author of The Elements of Statistical Learning; Stanford emeritus
Vladimir Fedorov
Chief Technology Officer, GitHub
Chief Technology Officer of GitHub; co-founder of UserClouds and former engineering leader at Facebook
Werner Vogels
Chief Technology Officer, Amazon.com, Amazon
Chief Technology Officer of Amazon.com; co-author of the 2007 Dynamo paper
Wes Bos
Co-host, Syntax
Web development educator who co-hosts the Syntax podcast and makes JavaScript courses
Yagil Burowski
LM Studio team member (shown with the "LM Studio Team" badge on LM Studio Hub), Element Labs
LM Studio team member; made the first commits to LM Studio's lms CLI and MLX engine repositories
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