Top Software Engineers in

Comprehensive Systems and Network Programming

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linux
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audio
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windows
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networking

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

Michael Niedermayer
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United States
Rock Star
23 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
mstorsjo/libav
24953 commits in 16 years 2 months
FFmpeg/FFmpeg
19528 commits, 50 PRs, 2399 pushes in 12 years
michaelni/FFmpeg
204 commits, 4 pushes, 9 branches in 11 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
ios
10
mpeg
10
c-plus-plus
10

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2

Junio Hamano
"Git" maintainer at Git Development Community
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United States
Rock Star
24 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
gitster/git-htmldocs
1055 commits, 802 pushes in 11 years 6 months
chriscool/git
3405 commits in 15 years 1 month
gitster/git-manpages
957 commits, 762 pushes in 11 years 6 months
Top skills
Score
git-gui
10
git
10
git-lfs
10

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3

Andreas Rheinhardt
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TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
FFmpeg/FFmpeg
5638 commits in 4 years 1 month
ietf-wg-cellar/matroska-specification
4 reviews, 10 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 4 months
intel-media-ci/ffmpeg-cartwheel
104 commits in 1 year 2 months
Top skills
Score
rtlsdr
10
audio
10
msys2
10

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4

Paul B Mahol
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Croatia
Rock Star
16 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
FFmpeg/FFmpeg
3381 commits, 17 comments in 11 years 3 months
mstorsjo/libav
2141 commits in 5 years 5 months
richardpl/FFmpeg
449 commits, 1 PR, 682 pushes in 11 years 3 months
Top skills
Score
video-quality
10
simulation
10
vt100
10

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5

James Almer
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United States
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
FFmpeg/FFmpeg
3072 commits in 10 years 7 months
mstorsjo/libav
773 commits in 6 years 7 months
jamrial/FFmpeg
441 pushes, 100 branches, 2 comments in 9 years 6 months
Top skills
Score
tiling
10
reference-implementation
10
ffmpeg
10

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6

Jeff King
Open Source Developer at Git Development Community
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United States
Rock Star
24 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
peff/git
554 commits, 2 PRs, 55470 pushes in 13 years 4 months
git/git
3938 commits, 23 PRs, 15 pushes in 16 years 10 months
chriscool/git
425 commits in 7 years 8 months
Top skills
Score
curl
10
perl
10
dvcs
10

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7

Phil Elwell
Engineer at Raspberry Pi
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United Kingdom
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
ddstreet/linux
6920 commits in 3 years 11 months
raspberrypi/linux
364 reviews, 6780 commits, 1581 PRs in 8 years 6 months
powervm/ibmvscsis
5626 commits in 2 years 7 months
Top skills
Score
baremetal
10
raspberry
10
linux
10

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8

Dave Stevenson
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Raspberry Pi Trading
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United Kingdom
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
raspberrypi/linux
302 reviews, 6383 commits, 368 PRs in 8 years
6by9/linux
1 review, 6105 commits, 3 PRs in 6 years 7 months
altlinux/linux-arm
2089 commits in 3 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
raspberry-pi
10
ipmi
10
surveillance
10

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9

Linus Torvalds
Fellow at Linux Foundation
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United States
Rock Star
24 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
goldelico/letux-kernel
3496 commits in 6 years 8 months
aosp-mirror/kernel_common
26943 commits in 11 years 8 months
kraatus90/payton
17566 commits in 11 years 1 month
Top skills
Score
smartphone
10
android-ndk
10
webos
10

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10

Johannes Schindelin
Maintainer of Git for Windows (he/him) at Git For Windows
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Germany
Rock Star
24 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
dscho/git
18 releases, 7 reviews, 36677 commits in 14 years 2 months
chriscool/git
9831 commits in 11 years 10 months
fiji/fiji
5435 commits, 2 pushes, 4 comments in 6 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
versioning
10
jvm
10
swing
10

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11

Krzysztof Kozłowski
Senior Linux Kernel Engineer @Linaro at Linux Kernel Community
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Switzerland
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
aosp-mirror/kernel_common
4793 commits in 9 years 8 months
ddstreet/linux
1182 commits in 5 years 4 months
0day-ci/linux
857 commits in 1 year 7 months
Top skills
Score
test-project
10
windows
10
linux-kernel
10

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12

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
I can assume whatever title I want at Self Employed
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Netherlands
19 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
avar/git-patches
3366 commits, 1465 pushes in 12 years 11 months
avar/git
20764 commits, 2 PRs, 6133 pushes in 15 years 4 months
git/git
1953 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 12 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
gitlab-api
10
p2p
10
submit
10

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13

Duy Nguyen
R&D Engineer at DEK Technologies
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Vietnam
18 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
git/git
1824 commits, 5 comments in 12 years 10 months
avar/git
206 commits in 8 years 9 months
gitgitgadget/git
91 commits in 3 years 2 months
Top skills
Score
delta
10
pygobject
10
internet-radio
10

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14

popcornmix
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Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
ddstreet/linux
4367 commits in 5 years 5 months
powervm/ibmvscsis
3578 commits in 5 years 5 months
raspberrypi/linux
69 reviews, 4375 commits, 379 PRs in 11 years 1 month
Top skills
Score
baremetal
10
android
10
shadertoy
10

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15

Dmitry Baryshkov
Software Engineer at Linaro
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Russia
24 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
aosp-mirror/kernel_common
1238 commits in 13 years 3 months
steev/linux
899 commits in 2 years 7 months
0day-ci/linux
735 commits in 1 year
Top skills
Score
der
10
digest
10
surface
10

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16

Arnd Bergmann
Linux Kernel Hacker at Linaro
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Germany
Rock Star
24 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
aosp-mirror/kernel_common
10833 commits in 11 years 9 months
flar2/kernel-msm
2398 commits in 12 years 7 months
turtleletortue/android_kernel_retroid_pocket2
2225 commits in 11 years 1 month
Top skills
Score
music
10
air
10
oracle-linux
10

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17

Steve Lhomme
Software Developer at Videolabs
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France
19 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
mstorsjo/vlc
3236 commits in 14 years 4 months
ietf-wg-cellar/matroska-specification
133 reviews, 845 commits, 721 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Matroska-Org/foundation-source
7 releases, 2 reviews, 1142 commits in 12 years 11 months
Top skills
Score
dlna
10
macos
10
mingw
10

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18

Richard Pearce
Technical Consultant at Elite Business Systems
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New Zealand
18 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
WANdisco/gerrit
6484 commits in 9 years 4 months
atlassian/org.eclipse.jgit-atlassian
1088 commits in 5 years 5 months
git/git
1404 commits in 10 years 1 month
Top skills
Score
git-gui
10
code-mirror
10
git-lfs
10

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elenril
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14 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
mstorsjo/libav
3565 commits in 6 years 8 months
archos-sa/libav-avp
1439 commits in 2 years 11 months
FFmpeg/FFmpeg
966 commits in 11 years 9 months
Top skills
Score
music
10
hevc
10
mp4
10

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20

Clément Bœsch
Founder at Nope Forge
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France
15 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
mstorsjo/libav
1842 commits in 5 years 6 months
gopro/gopro-lib-node.gl
74 reviews, 1774 commits, 1 PR in 6 years 2 months
ubitux/pokanalysis
317 commits, 114 pushes, 6 branches in 12 years 6 months
Top skills
Score
tiling
10
multimedia
10
h264
10

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