Top Software Engineers in

Modern Software Development and DevOps Practices

Modern Software Development and DevOps Practices encompass a comprehensive range of tools and methodologies used to enhance software development and operational efficiency. This subject area involves technologies for managing code, automating development processes, and streamlining project workflows, showcasing advancements in areas such as version control, continuous integration, static site generation, and community-driven programming platforms.

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

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1

Benjamin Pasero
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
/
Switzerland
Rock Star
22 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/vscode
Vscode: 11846 commits in 7 years 3 months
microsoft/vscode-docs
Vscode-docs: 190 commits in 3 years 9 months
headmelted/vscode
Vscode: 179 commits in 6 months
Top skills
Score
electron
10
visual-studio-code
10
editor
10

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2

Johannes Rieken
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
/
Switzerland
Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/vscode
Vscode: 10684 commits in 7 years 3 months
microsoft/vscode-anycode
Vscode-anycode: 552 commits in 1 year 6 months
microsoft/vscode-references-view
Vscode-references-view: 324 commits in 3 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
visual-studio-code
10
editor
10
electron
10

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3

João Moreno
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
/
Switzerland
Rock Star
19 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/vscode
Vscode: 8822 commits in 7 years 3 months
microsoft/vscode-vsce
Vscode-vsce: 788 commits in 7 years 5 months
joaomoreno/gifcap
Gifcap: 282 commits in 2 years 1 months
Top skills
Score
visual-studio-code
10
typescript
10
editor
10

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4

Matt Bierner
N/A at Rare Realities
/
United States
Rock Star
14 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/vscode
Vscode: 7893 commits in 6 years 5 months
mjbvz/vscode
Vscode: 1798 commits in 6 years 6 months
microsoft/nodejstools
Nodejstools: 887 commits in 8 months
Top skills
Score
typescript
10
electron
10
microsoft
10

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5

Alexandru Dima
Principal Software Engineering Manager at microsoft
/
Switzerland
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/vscode
Vscode: 7818 commits in 7 years 2 months
microsoft/monaco-editor
Monaco-editor: 1476 commits in 6 years 6 months
microsoft/vscode-textmate
Vscode-textmate: 307 commits in 7 years 3 months
Top skills
Score
typescript
10
visual-studio-code
10
electron
10

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6

Daniel Imms
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
/
United States
Rock Star
17 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/vscode
Vscode: 7422 commits in 7 years 3 months
xtermjs/xterm.js
Xterm.js: 5328 commits in 6 years 8 months
Tyriar/xterm.js
Xterm.js: 634 commits in 6 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
typescript
10
editor
10
microsoft
10

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7

Sandeep Somavarapu
Software Engineer at Microsoft
/
Switzerland
Rock Star
19 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/vscode
Vscode: 7360 commits in 6 years 9 months
microsoft/vscode-docs
Vscode-docs: 154 commits in 3 years 9 months
microsoft/vscode-extension-samples
Vscode-extension-samples: 128 commits in 3 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
visual-studio-code
10
editor
10
microsoft
10

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8

Isidor Nikolic
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, VS Code
/
Switzerland
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/vscode
Vscode: 6100 commits in 7 years 3 months
microsoft/vscode-docs
Vscode-docs: 260 commits in 3 years 10 months
joaomoreno/vscode
Vscode: 125 commits in 2 years
Top skills
Score
visual-studio-code
10
editor
10
electron
10

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9

Martin Aeschlimann
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
/
Switzerland
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/vscode
Vscode: 4587 commits in 7 years 3 months
microsoft/vscode-css-languageservice
Vscode-css-languageservice: 560 commits in 6 years 8 months
microsoft/vscode-json-languageservice
Vscode-json-languageservice: 544 commits in 6 years 8 months
Top skills
Score
typescript
10
visual-studio-code
10
electron
10

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10

Peng Lyu
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
/
United States
Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/vscode
Vscode: 4419 commits in 6 years 10 months
microsoft/vscode-pull-request-github
Vscode-pull-request-github: 486 commits in 3 years 7 months
rebornix/rebornix.github.io
Rebornix.github.io: 347 commits in 8 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
typescript
10
editor
10
electron
10

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11

Rob Lourens
Software Engineer at Microsoft
/
United States
Rock Star
15 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/vscode
Vscode: 4110 commits in 7 years 1 months
microsoft/vscode-chrome-debug
Vscode-chrome-debug: 1379 commits in 6 years
microsoft/vscode-chrome-debug-core
Vscode-chrome-debug-core: 1118 commits in 5 years 3 months
Top skills
Score
visual-studio-code
10
typescript
10
electron
10

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12

Alex Ross
Employed at Microsoft
/
United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/vscode
Vscode: 2043 commits in 4 years 9 months
microsoft/vscode-pull-request-github
Vscode-pull-request-github: 1051 commits in 3 years
microsoft/vscode-docs
Vscode-docs: 158 commits in 3 years 8 months
Top skills
Score
visual-studio-code
10
editor
10
microsoft
10

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13

Robin Ward
Building open source community software at Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.
/
Canada
Rock Star
18 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
discourse/discourse
Discourse: 6930 commits in 9 years 3 months
eviltrout/adventofcode
Adventofcode: 159 commits in 7 years 1 months
eviltrout/ember-performance
Ember-performance: 116 commits in 8 years 8 months
Top skills
Score
javascript
10
discourse
10
ruby
10

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14

Sam Saffron
Co Founder at Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.
/
Australia
Rock Star
25 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
discourse/discourse
Discourse: 6846 commits in 10 years 1 months
discourse/discourse_docker
Discourse_docker: 493 commits in 7 years 10 months
MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler
Rack-mini-profiler: 392 commits in 10 years
Top skills
Score
ruby
10
discourse
10
javascript
10

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15

Steven Batten
Software Engineer at Microsoft - VS Code
/
United States
Rock Star
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/vscode
Vscode: 1654 commits in 5 years 2 months
microsoft/vscode-docs
Vscode-docs: 141 commits in 3 years 7 months
sbatten/vscode
Vscode: 102 commits in 2 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
visual-studio-code
10
electron
10
microsoft
10

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16

Megan Rogge
Employed at Microsoft
/
United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/vscode
Vscode: 1425 commits in 2 years 4 months
meganrogge/template-string-converter
Template-string-converter: 397 commits in 2 years 2 months
xtermjs/xterm.js
Xterm.js: 396 commits in 2 years 1 months
Top skills
Score
typescript
10
editor
10
electron
10

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17

Andre Weinand
Principal SDE at Microsoft (retired)
/
Switzerland
Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
microsoft/vscode-node-debug
Vscode-node-debug: 1357 commits in 5 years 9 months
microsoft/vscode
Vscode: 1230 commits in 7 years
microsoft/vscode-debugadapter-node
Vscode-debugadapter-node: 402 commits in 6 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
visual-studio-code
10
editor
10
microsoft
10

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18

Brendan Forster
Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
/
Canada
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
desktop/desktop
Desktop: 6273 commits in 6 years 3 months
shiftkey/desktop
Desktop: 1856 commits in 4 years 10 months
octokit/octokit.net
Octokit.net: 1404 commits in 7 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
git
10
typescript
9
electron
9

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19

Robby Russell
CEO Planet Argon one of Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces 2023, Creator @ohmyzsh, Host of Maintainable Software Podcast, Board Member of Path Home at Maintainable Software Podcast
/
United States
Rock Star
24 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh
Ohmyzsh: 1373 commits in 13 years 6 months
JackDanger/dotfiles
Dotfiles: 215 commits in 1 year 10 months
simnalamburt/shellder
Shellder: 164 commits in 6 years 1 months
Top skills
Score
shell
10
ohmyzsh
10
oh-my-zsh
10

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20

Guo Xiang
Software Engineer at Discourse
/
Singapore
Rock Star
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
discourse/discourse
Discourse: 4259 commits in 8 years 2 months
ruby-bench/ruby-bench-web
Ruby-bench-web: 637 commits in 6 years 3 months
discourse/discourse-narrative-bot
Discourse-narrative-bot: 240 commits in 7 months
Top skills
Score
ruby
10
discourse
10
javascript
10

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