Top Software Engineers in

Comprehensive Systems and Network Programming

Comprehensive Systems and Network Programming encompasses a broad area of computer science that focuses on developing and enhancing operating systems, network communication, and multimedia processing. It integrates various technologies including Linux system programming, network packet handling, real-time data compression, and multimedia content processing across different platforms. This field is pivotal in improving the efficiency and capabilities of devices and applications in handling complex system-level and networking tasks.

Ranks are based on the open source contributions and reassessed every 30 days

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1

Junio Hamano
"Git" maintainer at Google
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United States
Rock Star
30 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
git/git
Git: 26787 commits in 18 years
chriscool/git
Git: 3405 commits in 15 years 1 months
dscho/git
Git: 3241 commits in 8 years 2 months
Top skills
Score
shell
10
publish
3
mailing
3

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2

Michael Niedermayer
Senior Software Engineer
/
United States
Rock Star
23 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
mstorsjo/libav
Libav: 24953 commits in 16 years 2 months
FFmpeg/FFmpeg
FFmpeg: 19528 commits in 12 years
FFmpeg/web
Web: 651 commits in 11 years 10 months
Top skills
Score
multimedia
10
webm
10
ffmpeg
10

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3

Jeff King
Open Source Developer at Git Development Community
/
United States
Rock Star
25 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
git/git
Git: 3938 commits in 16 years 10 months
git/git-scm.com
Git-scm.com: 692 commits in 10 years 9 months
peff/git
Git: 554 commits in 13 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
shell
10
mailing-list
3
code-mirror
3

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4

Andreas Rheinhardt
/
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
FFmpeg/FFmpeg
FFmpeg: 5638 commits in 4 years 1 months
intel-media-ci/ffmpeg-cartwheel
Ffmpeg-cartwheel: 104 commits in 1 year 2 months
TopazLabs/FFmpeg
FFmpeg: 65 commits in 11 months
Top skills
Score
matroska
10
mpeg
10
ffmpeg
10

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5

Johannes Schindelin
Maintainer of Git for Windows (he/him) at Microsoft
/
Germany
Rock Star
24 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
dscho/git
Git: 36677 commits in 14 years 2 months
gitgitgadget/git-mailing-list-mirror
Git-mailing-list-mirror: 18328 commits in 18 years
chriscool/git
Git: 9831 commits in 11 years 10 months
Top skills
Score
shell
10
mailing
3
mailing-list
3

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6

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
I can assume whatever title I want at Self Employed
/
Netherlands
13 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
avar/git
Git: 20764 commits in 15 years 4 months
avar/git-patches
Git-patches: 3366 commits in 12 years 11 months
git/git
Git: 1953 commits in 12 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
shell
10
mailing-list
3
code-mirror
3

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7

Paul B Mahol
/
Croatia
Rock Star
16 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
FFmpeg/FFmpeg
FFmpeg: 3381 commits in 11 years 3 months
mstorsjo/libav
Libav: 2141 commits in 5 years 5 months
NDISulator/ndisulator
Ndisulator: 828 commits in 3 years
Top skills
Score
audio
10
mpeg
10
ffmpeg
10

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8

Duy Nguyễn
R&D Engineer at DEK Technologies
/
Viet Nam
21 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
git/git
Git: 1824 commits in 12 years 10 months
realthunder/busybox-w32
Busybox-w32: 466 commits in 1 year 9 months
shirok/Gauche
Gauche: 246 commits in 6 years 10 months
Top skills
Score
shell
10
mailing-list
3
code-mirror
3

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9

James Almer
/
United States
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
FFmpeg/FFmpeg
FFmpeg: 3072 commits in 10 years 7 months
mstorsjo/libav
Libav: 773 commits in 6 years 7 months
videolan/dav1d
Dav1d: 116 commits in 4 years 3 months
Top skills
Score
ffmpeg
10
hevc
10
multimedia
10

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10

Phil Elwell
Engineer at Raspberry Pi
/
United Kingdom
Rock Star
17 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
ddstreet/linux
Linux: 6920 commits in 3 years 11 months
raspberrypi/linux
Linux: 6780 commits in 8 years 6 months
powervm/ibmvscsis
Ibmvscsis: 5626 commits in 2 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
raspberry-pi
10
kernel
10
raspberrypi
10

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11

Shawn O. Pearce
/
United States
18 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
WANdisco/gerrit
Gerrit: 6484 commits in 9 years 4 months
git/git
Git: 1404 commits in 10 years 1 months
atlassian/org.eclipse.jgit-atlassian
Org.eclipse.jgit-atlassian: 1088 commits in 5 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
shell
10
code-mirror
2
mailing-list
2

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12

Dave Stevenson
Employed at RASPBERRY PI FOUNDATION
/
United Kingdom
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
raspberrypi/linux
Linux: 6383 commits in 8 years
6by9/linux
Linux: 6105 commits in 6 years 7 months
altlinux/linux-arm
Linux-arm: 2089 commits in 3 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
raspberry-pi
10
kernel
10
linux
10

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13

rscharfe
/
21 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
git/git
Git: 1147 commits in 17 years 11 months
avar/git
Git: 24 commits in 4 years 3 months
tgummerer/git
Git: 18 commits in 1 months
Top skills
Score
shell
10
mailing-list
3
code-mirror
3

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14

Linus Torvalds
Fellow at Linux Foundation
/
United States
Rock Star
27 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
aosp-mirror/kernel_common
Kernel_common: 26943 commits in 11 years 8 months
jonsmirl/mpc5200
Mpc5200: 6950 commits in 4 years 1 months
rINanDO/android_kernel_samsung_smdk4412
Android_kernel_samsung_smdk4412: 5013 commits in 3 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
linux
10
linux-kernel
10
kernel
10

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15

Elijah Newren
Internal Tools Engineer at Palantir Technologies
/
United States
Rock Star
22 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
gitgitgadget/git
Git: 1404 commits in 5 years 4 months
newren/git
Git: 984 commits in 8 years 3 months
git/git
Git: 978 commits in 14 years 1 months
Top skills
Score
shell
10
mailing-list
3
code-mirror
3

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16

Krzysztof Kozłowski
Senior Linux Kernel Engineer @Linaro at Linaro
/
Switzerland
21 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
aosp-mirror/kernel_common
Kernel_common: 4793 commits in 9 years 8 months
hnaz/linux-mm
Linux-mm: 1200 commits in 6 years 3 months
ddstreet/linux
Linux: 1182 commits in 5 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
linux
10
linux-kernel
10
kernel
10

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17

Michael Haggerty
Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
/
Germany
Rock Star
23 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
mhagger/cvs2svn
Cvs2svn: 3273 commits in 16 years 5 months
git/git
Git: 954 commits in 9 years
mhagger/git
Git: 611 commits in 6 years 6 months
Top skills
Score
shell
10
procedure
2
publish
2

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18

Dom Cobley
Engineer at Raspberry Pi
/
United Kingdom
Rock Star
25 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
popcornmix/xbmc
Xbmc: 4965 commits in 10 years 6 months
raspberrypi/linux
Linux: 4375 commits in 11 years 1 months
ddstreet/linux
Linux: 4367 commits in 5 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
raspberry-pi
10
raspberrypi
10
kernel
10

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19

jrn
/
Rock Star
24 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
git/git
Git: 859 commits in 13 years 3 months
bk2204/git
Git: 516 commits in 6 years 5 months
avar/git
Git: 199 commits in 7 months
Top skills
Score
shell
10
mailing-list
3
code-mirror
3

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