Top Software Engineers in

Cross-Platform Media and Privacy Tools Development

Cross-Platform Media and Privacy Tools Development is a field focused on creating software that operates on multiple operating systems such as Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android, enhancing user privacy and security. It involves developing a variety of tools including video downloaders, media players, ad blockers, and remote desktop applications, often using languages like Python, JavaScript, and Rust, and frameworks such as Electron and .NET.

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

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1

Philipp Hagemeister
Senior Backend Developer at tonies
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Germany
Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Youtube-dl: 4583 commits in 9 years 4 months
phihag/bup
Bup: 2523 commits in 7 years 6 months
boxine/pentf
Pentf: 722 commits in 3 years 10 months
Top skills
Score
cli
10
youtube-dl
10
sites
10

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2

remitamine
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Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Youtube-dl: 1876 commits in 6 years 1 months
haruhi-dl/haruhi-dl
Haruhi-dl: 476 commits in 3 months
unqueued/youtube-dl-prs
Youtube-dl-prs: 274 commits in 5 years 3 months
Top skills
Score
ffmpeg
10
youtube-dl
10
youtube
10

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3

Ismaël Moussa
Juste un ingénieur at Beckhoff Automation
/
France
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
iptv-org/iptv
Iptv: 3778 commits in 2 years
BellezaEmporium/query-streamlink
Query-streamlink: 116 commits in 1 year 8 months
iptv-org/epg
Epg: 73 commits in 1 year 4 months
Top skills
Score
iptv
10
m3u
10
playlist
10

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4

Jaime Ferrándiz Escrichs
Profesional de maquinaría
/
Spain
Rock Star
28 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Youtube-dl: 1480 commits in 5 years
jaimeMF/youtube-dl-api-server
Youtube-dl-api-server: 154 commits in 5 years 8 months
Homebrew/legacy-homebrew
Legacy-homebrew: 96 commits in 2 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
homebrew
10
formulae
10
tap
10

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5

Chih-Hsuan Yen
學生 － 國立臺灣大學 at 中央研究院
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Taiwan, Province of China
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Youtube-dl: 1389 commits in 5 years 9 months
archlinux/aur
Aur: 925 commits in 8 years 10 months
GRRedWings/python3-android
Python3-android: 561 commits in 4 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
youtube
10
cli
10
youtube-dl
10

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6

Huabing Zhou
Making affordable remote desktop service for everyone at Rustdesk
/
Singapore
Rock Star
14 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
chiehw/rustdesk
Rustdesk: 365 commits in 1 months
rustdesk/doc.rustdesk.com
Doc.rustdesk.com: 166 commits in 1 year 5 months
KDogeOne/rustdesk
Rustdesk: 152 commits in 20 days
Top skills
Score
remote-desktop
10
wayland
10
remote-control
10

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7

Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa
Software Engineer at Z Lab Corporation
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Japan
Rock Star
23 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
nghttp2/nghttp2
Nghttp2: 6270 commits in 9 years 7 months
aria2/aria2
Aria2: 5085 commits in 16 years 9 months
ngtcp2/ngtcp2
Ngtcp2: 3449 commits in 6 years 3 months
Top skills
Score
http
10
ftp
10
rpc
10

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8

Don Ho
Software Engineer at Notepad
/
France
Rock Star
23 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus
Notepad-plus-plus: 2584 commits in 14 years 11 months
KnIfER/Textrument
Textrument: 1805 commits in 11 years 5 months
PKRoma/notepadplus
Notepadplus: 1246 commits in 7 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
notepad
10
editor
10
windows
10

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9

James Kemp
Live,Love,Photography! at James Kemp Photography
/
United States
Rock Star
21 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
iptv-org/iptv
Iptv: 967 commits in 3 months
Top skills
Score
iptv
10
m3u
10
playlist
10

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10

Steven Black
Blanding, Utah at Nivonyx
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United States
Rock Star
29 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
StevenBlack/hosts
Hosts: 2576 commits in 10 years 11 months
evilfactorylabs/gatekeeper
Gatekeeper: 1122 commits in 3 years 5 months
StevenBlack/stevenblack.github.io
Stevenblack.github.io: 200 commits in 7 years 6 months
Top skills
Score
privacy
10
malware
10
python
10

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11

Ricardo Garcia
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Mexico
18 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
slackroll/slackroll
Slackroll: 652 commits in 12 years 10 months
ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Youtube-dl: 343 commits in 4 years 9 months
rg3/specs
Specs: 232 commits in 7 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
youtube-dl
10
youtube
10
cli
10

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12

Filippo Valsorda
Employed at Cloudflare Inc
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United States
Rock Star
14 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
FiloSottile/mostly-harmless
Mostly-harmless: 739 commits in 10 years 4 months
cloudflare/go
Go: 385 commits in 6 years 9 months
piloteur/piloteur
Piloteur: 343 commits in 8 months
Top skills
Score
golang
10
programming-language
10
go
10

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13

Kingtous
Employed at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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China
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
rustdesk/rustdesk
Rustdesk: 340 commits in 9 months
Kingtous/Kingtous.github.io
Kingtous.github.io: 339 commits in 4 years 1 months
Kingtous/blog_post
Blog_post: 236 commits in 3 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
flutter
10
teamviewer
10
flutter-ui
10

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14

Stefano Pigozzi
Software Engineer. Ruby, React, TypeScript, fp-ts & effect-ts. at Gromia
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Italy
Rock Star
14 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
mpv-player/mpv
Mpv: 713 commits in 7 years 11 months
pigoz/dotfiles
Dotfiles: 507 commits in 10 years 11 months
Nikoli/mpv
Mpv: 215 commits in 5 months
Top skills
Score
mpv
10
audio
10
multimedia
10

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15

Niklas Haas
Software Engineer
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Germany
Rock Star
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
haasn/libplacebo
Libplacebo: 2390 commits in 5 years 4 months
mpv-player/mpv
Mpv: 654 commits in 9 years
haasn/mpv
Mpv: 452 commits in 8 years
Top skills
Score
multimedia
10
ffmpeg
10
audio
9

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16

21pages
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China
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
rustdesk/rustdesk
Rustdesk: 206 commits in 7 months
21pages/hwcodec
Hwcodec: 74 commits in 7 months
chiehw/rustdesk
Rustdesk: 56 commits in 1 months
Top skills
Score
flutter
10
wayland
10
flutter-ui
10

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17

Connor Hackenberg
Student at Tel Hai Retirement Community
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United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
iptv-org/iptv
Iptv: 269 commits in 3 years
MapGuy11/YouTubeTV-FireTV
YouTubeTV-FireTV: 52 commits in 5 months
evoactivity/hls-proxy-docker
Hls-proxy-docker: 21 commits in 1 year 5 months
Top skills
Score
iptv
10
m3u
10
streams
10

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18

Chieh Wang
Software Engineer at Artgeektech
/
United States
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
rustdesk/rustdesk
Rustdesk: 181 commits in 7 months
asur4s/fuzzing
Fuzzing: 161 commits in 8 months
chiehw/rustdesk
Rustdesk: 71 commits in 27 days
Top skills
Score
rust
10
vnc
10
rust-lang
10

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19

Kevin Mitchell
Owner - ASANDA Wireless at Asanda Wireless
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South Africa
Rock Star
34 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
mpv-player/mpv
Mpv: 315 commits in 6 years 3 months
kevmitch/mpv
Mpv: 212 commits in 6 years
mpv-player/mpv-build
Mpv-build: 95 commits in 9 years
Top skills
Score
audio
10
ffmpeg
10
mplayer
10

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20

Sphinx Rowe-Scott
Business Manager at Manolo Blahnik
/
United States
Rock Star
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
iptv-org/iptv
Iptv: 157 commits in 2 years 5 months
susyshinkle/M3U-URL
M3U-URL: 110 commits in 2 months
Sphinxroot/Streaming-Site
Streaming-Site: 30 commits in 2 months
Top skills
Score
iptv
10
m3u
10
streams
10

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