Top Software Engineers in

Open-Source Software Development and Collaboration Technologies

Open-Source Software Development and Collaboration Technologies encompass tools and platforms that facilitate the creation, modification, and sharing of software freely and collaboratively across multiple operating systems and programming languages. This field includes live streaming software, microblogging platforms, media centers, messaging apps, and tools for software reverse engineering and decentralized internet hosting, promoting innovation and interconnectivity among developers globally.

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

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1

Andreas Kling
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Sweden
Rock Star
20 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
SerenityOS/serenity
Serenity: 14544 commits in 4 years 4 months
awesomekling/computron
Computron: 698 commits in 2 years 10 months
awesomekling/ytalk
Ytalk: 679 commits in 4 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
c-plus-plus
10
kernel
10
browser
10

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2

John Preston
Employed at Telegram Messenger
/
United States
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
telegramdesktop/tdesktop
Tdesktop: 10739 commits in 8 years 10 months
Kiku-Reise/tdesktop
Tdesktop: 943 commits in 11 months
desktop-app/lib_ui
Lib_ui: 606 commits in 3 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
telegram
10
messenger
10
multi-platform
10

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3

Jing Lain
Online Marketer/Freelance Translator
/
United Kingdom
Rock Star
18 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
obsproject/obs-studio
Obs-studio: 5667 commits in 9 years 4 months
jp9000/OBS
OBS: 1023 commits in 3 years 11 months
Andersama/obs-studio
Obs-studio: 579 commits in 1 year 11 months
Top skills
Score
c-plus-plus
10
live-streaming
10
ffmpeg
10

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4

Laurent Cozic
Founder at Epitechnic
/
United Kingdom
Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
laurent22/laurent22.github.io
Laurent22.github.io: 8388 commits in 3 years 4 months
laurent22/joplin
Joplin: 7901 commits in 6 years 4 months
jyuvaraj03/joplin
Joplin: 186 commits in 7 months
Top skills
Score
javascript
10
android
10
electron
10

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5

Eugen Rochko
CEO of Mastodon at Mastodon
/
Germany
Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
mastodon/mastodon
Mastodon: 4210 commits in 7 years
mastodon/mastodon-ios
Mastodon-ios: 3106 commits in 1 year 7 months
qoto-org/qoto
Qoto: 2767 commits in 3 years
Top skills
Score
mastodon
10
webfinger
10
docker
10

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6

Fredrik Fornwall
Developer
/
Sweden
Rock Star
19 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
termux/termux-packages
Termux-packages: 9516 commits in 5 years 5 months
fornwall/advent-of-code
Advent-of-code: 1663 commits in 3 years 2 months
its-pointless/termux-packages
Termux-packages: 1174 commits in 3 years 6 months
Top skills
Score
termux
10
linux
10
packages
10

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7

Leonid P
/
Ukraine
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
termux/termux-packages
Termux-packages: 6741 commits in 5 years 10 months
termux/x11-packages
X11-packages: 2168 commits in 3 years 4 months
its-pointless/unstable-packages
Unstable-packages: 1222 commits in 1 year 11 months
Top skills
Score
termux
10
android
10
packages
10

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8

Kai Sommerfeld
/
Germany
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
xbmc/xbmc
Xbmc: 3139 commits in 9 years
kodi-pvr/pvr.hts
Pvr.hts: 455 commits in 8 years 1 months
a1rwulf/xbmc
Xbmc: 159 commits in 4 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
kodi
10
xbmc
10
android
10

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9

Rainer Hochecker
/
Germany
Rock Star
13 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
xbmc/xbmc
Xbmc: 3083 commits in 9 years 4 months
herrnst/xbmc
Xbmc: 1867 commits in 4 years 8 months
fritsch/xbmc
Xbmc: 1187 commits in 5 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
multimedia
10
kodi
10
linux
10

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10

Sascha Montellese
Employed at Supercomputing Systems AG
/
Switzerland
Rock Star
13 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
xbmc/xbmc
Xbmc: 2975 commits in 12 years 1 months
Montellese/xbmc
Xbmc: 1635 commits in 10 years 9 months
Montellese/mediaimporter.emby
Mediaimporter.emby: 218 commits in 2 years
Top skills
Score
xbmc
10
kodi
10
android
10

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11

Martijn Kaijser
Employed at XBMC Foundation
/
Netherlands
Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
xbmc/xbmc
Xbmc: 2876 commits in 7 years 3 months
xbmc/repo-plugins
Repo-plugins: 2013 commits in 6 years 10 months
xbmc/repo-scripts
Repo-scripts: 1328 commits in 6 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
kodi
10
macos
9
android
9

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12

Linus Groh
Software Engineer at YunoJuno
/
United Kingdom
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
SerenityOS/serenity
Serenity: 3204 commits in 3 years
owntracks/frontend
Frontend: 249 commits in 3 years 6 months
linusg/rpi-backlight
Rpi-backlight: 222 commits in 6 years 3 months
Top skills
Score
c-plus-plus
10
kernel
10
operating-system
10

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13

Matthias Kortstiege
Employed at xbmc
/
Germany
Rock Star
16 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
xbmc/xbmc
Xbmc: 1778 commits in 8 years 10 months
baijuxavior/xbmc
Xbmc: 393 commits in 1 year
xbmc/repo-scrapers
Repo-scrapers: 114 commits in 5 years 2 months
Top skills
Score
kodi
10
xbmc
10
media-center
10

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14

Henrik Grimler
Battery Specialist at Etteplan
/
Sweden
Rock Star
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
termux/termux-packages
Termux-packages: 3154 commits in 5 years 7 months
termux/termux-root-packages
Termux-root-packages: 543 commits in 4 years 3 months
its-pointless/termux-packages
Termux-packages: 528 commits in 2 years 8 months
Top skills
Score
termux
10
linux
10
packages
10

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15

Lukas Rusak
Embedded Software Engineer at Skytrac
/
Canada
Rock Star
13 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
xbmc/xbmc
Xbmc: 1490 commits in 7 years 11 months
RasPlex/OpenPHT-Embedded
OpenPHT-Embedded: 1179 commits in 2 years 6 months
lrusak/xbmc
Xbmc: 1046 commits in 8 years 9 months
Top skills
Score
linux
10
multimedia
10
xbmc
10

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16

Ali Mohammad Pur
Software Engineer
/
Iran
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
alimpfard/citron
Citron: 2762 commits in 4 years 6 months
SerenityOS/serenity
Serenity: 1844 commits in 2 years 10 months
alimpfard/serenity
Serenity: 357 commits in 2 years 10 months
Top skills
Score
c-plus-plus
10
kernel
10
operating-system
10

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17

Timothy Flynn
Software Engineer at ViaSat
/
United States
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
SerenityOS/serenity
Serenity: 1794 commits in 1 year 10 months
trflynn89/libfly
Libfly: 1024 commits in 6 years 1 months
supercomputer7/serenity
Serenity: 51 commits in 1 months
Top skills
Score
c-plus-plus
10
kernel
10
browser
10

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18

Scott Davilla
Employed at 4 PI ANALYSIS INC.
/
United States
16 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
MrMC/mrmc
Mrmc: 1709 commits in 4 years 6 months
xbmc/xbmc
Xbmc: 1420 commits in 5 years 11 months
Pivosgroup/xbmc
Xbmc: 1079 commits in 2 years 2 months
Top skills
Score
media-center
10
media-player
10
xbmc
10

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19

Luki Rechberger
Employed at xbmc
/
Austria
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
xbmc/xbmc
Xbmc: 1405 commits in 8 years
xbmc/repo-resources
Repo-resources: 325 commits in 1 year 8 months
xbmc/repo-plugins
Repo-plugins: 304 commits in 2 years 10 months
Top skills
Score
kodi
10
xbmc
10
android
10

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20

Alwin Esch
/
Germany
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
xbmc/xbmc
Xbmc: 1369 commits in 8 years
FernetMenta/xbmc
Xbmc: 424 commits in 2 years 2 months
xbmc/vfs.rar
Vfs.rar: 207 commits in 5 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
kodi
10
media-center
10
linux
10

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