Top Software Engineers in

Open-Source Software Development and Collaboration Technologies

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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

Laurent Cozic
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United Kingdom
Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
laurent22/laurent22.github.io
8388 commits, 8268 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
laurent22/joplin
372 releases, 1189 reviews, 7901 commits in 6 years 4 months
joplin/plugins
1 release, 179 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Top skills
Score
deb
10
filesystem
10
remove
10

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2

Andreas Kling
Chaufför på Vh frakt at Vh Frakt
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Sweden
Rock Star
20 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
SerenityOS/serenity
1810 reviews, 14544 commits, 10532 PRs in 4 years 4 months
awesomekling/computron
698 commits, 394 pushes in 2 years 10 months
SerenityOS/jakt
40 reviews, 468 commits, 584 PRs in 7 months
Top skills
Score
css
10
unix
10
vulnerabilities
10

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Eugen Rochko
CEO of Mastodon at Mastodon
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Germany
Rock Star
11 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
mastodon/mastodon
167 releases, 2201 reviews, 4210 commits in 7 years
kazunetakeda25/mastodon-v2
2248 commits in 4 years 7 months
mastodon/mastodon-ios
12 reviews, 3106 commits, 51 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Top skills
Score
upload
10
links
10
broadcasting
10

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Obs Jim
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Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
obsproject/obs-studio
181 releases, 79 reviews, 5667 commits in 9 years 4 months
jp9000/OBS
15 releases, 1023 commits, 26 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Andersama/obs-studio
579 commits in 1 year 11 months
Top skills
Score
studio
10
broadcast
10
plugin
10

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5

John Preston
Employed at Telegram Messenger
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United States
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
telegramdesktop/tdesktop
610 releases, 20 reviews, 10739 commits in 8 years 10 months
Kiku-Reise/tdesktop
943 commits in 11 months
desktop-app/lib_ui
606 commits, 181 PRs, 982 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
lottie
10
cpp
10
bodymovin
10

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Fredrik Fornwall
Developer
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Sweden
Rock Star
14 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
termux/termux-packages
3 reviews, 9516 commits, 1437 PRs in 5 years 5 months
fornwall/advent-of-code
1663 commits, 40 PRs, 1443 pushes in 3 years 2 months
its-pointless/termux-packages
1174 commits, 1 push in 3 years 6 months
Top skills
Score
deb
10
artemis
10
file-manager
10

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Kai Sommerfeld
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Germany
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
xbmc/xbmc
1 release, 1743 reviews, 3139 commits in 9 years
ksooo/xbmc
2 PRs, 8701 pushes, 2755 branches in 9 years 6 months
kodi-pvr/pvr.hts
74 releases, 54 reviews, 455 commits in 8 years 1 month
Top skills
Score
ios
10
helix
10
octoprint
10

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8

Git User
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Ukraine
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
termux/termux-packages
27 reviews, 6741 commits, 29 PRs in 5 years 10 months
termux/x11-packages
2168 commits in 3 years 4 months
its-pointless/unstable-packages
1222 commits in 1 year 11 months
Top skills
Score
smartphone
10
android
10
linux-distribution
10

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Rainer Hochecker
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Germany
Rock Star
13 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
herrnst/xbmc
1867 commits in 4 years 8 months
fritsch/xbmc
1187 commits, 51 comments in 5 years 11 months
xbmc/xbmc
42 reviews, 3083 commits, 1643 PRs in 9 years 4 months
Top skills
Score
ios
10
vaapi
10
mp4
10

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10

Sascha Montellese
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Switzerland
Rock Star
14 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
xbmc/xbmc
138 reviews, 2975 commits, 426 PRs in 12 years 1 month
Montellese/xbmc
1635 commits, 15 PRs, 2326 pushes in 10 years 9 months
garbear/xbmc
215 commits, 4 PRs, 25 comments in 9 months
Top skills
Score
ios
10
game-boy
10
python
10

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11

Martijn Kaijser
Employed at XBMC Foundation
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Netherlands
Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
xbmc/repo-plugins
2013 commits, 753 PRs, 1226 pushes in 6 years 10 months
xbmc/repo-skins
116 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 4 years 4 months
xbmc/xbmc
73 releases, 3 reviews, 2876 commits in 7 years 3 months
Top skills
Score
ios
10
stream
10
movie
10

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Linus Groh
Employed at bloomberg
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United Kingdom
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
SerenityOS/serenity
4526 reviews, 3204 commits, 3899 PRs in 3 years
linusg/serenity
5 commits, 1 PR, 4435 pushes in 10 months
owntracks/frontend
30 releases, 24 reviews, 249 commits in 3 years 6 months
Top skills
Score
optimal
10
compiler
10
parser
10

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Matthias Kortstiege
Employed at xbmc
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Germany
Rock Star
16 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
xbmc/xbmc
1778 commits, 485 PRs, 228 pushes in 8 years 10 months
xbmc/repo-scrapers
114 commits, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years 2 months
baijuxavior/xbmc
393 commits in 1 year
Top skills
Score
ios
10
xml
10
multimedia
10

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Lukas Rusak
Embedded Software Engineer at Skytrac
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Canada
Rock Star
12 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
RasPlex/OpenPHT-Embedded
1179 commits in 2 years 6 months
xbmc/xbmc
884 reviews, 1490 commits, 915 PRs in 7 years 11 months
lrusak/LibreELEC.tv
413 commits, 11 PRs, 1004 pushes in 7 years 9 months
Top skills
Score
ios
10
h265
10
hue
10

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Henrik Grimler
Battery Specialist at Etteplan
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Sweden
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
termux/termux-packages
501 reviews, 3154 commits, 1039 PRs in 5 years 7 months
termux/termux-root-packages
22 reviews, 543 commits, 184 PRs in 4 years 3 months
reisxd/rvba-packages
324 commits in 2 years 5 months
Top skills
Score
smartphone
10
distro
10
bibtex
10

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Scott Davilla
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United States
16 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
Pivosgroup/xbmc
1079 commits in 2 years 2 months
xbmc/xbmc
1420 commits, 57 comments in 5 years 11 months
MrMC/mrmc
1709 commits, 103 pushes, 48 branches in 4 years 6 months
Top skills
Score
ios
10
android
10
openframeworks
10

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Luki Rechberger
Employed at xbmc
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Austria
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
Rechi/xbmc
243 commits, 10 PRs, 10238 pushes in 2 years 11 months
xbmc/xbmc
33 reviews, 1405 commits, 924 PRs in 8 years
xbmc/repo-resources
325 commits, 16 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Top skills
Score
ios
10
linux
10
inotify
10

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18

Armin Esch
Senior Key Expert Wireless Connectivity at Inventronics
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Germany
Rock Star
10 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
AlwinEsch/AlwinEsch.github.io
145 commits, 164 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years
xbmc/repo-binary-addons
2 reviews, 74 commits, 50 PRs in 4 years 8 months
xbmc/xbmc
355 reviews, 1369 commits, 831 PRs in 8 years
Top skills
Score
curl
10
sega
10
stalker
10

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Garrett Brown
Embedded Systems Engineer at Aclima, Inc.
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United States
Rock Star
15 years of coding experience
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
garbear/xbmc
128 releases, 27 reviews, 4502 commits in 11 years 8 months
kodi-game/repo-binary-addons
75 commits, 10 PRs, 333 pushes in 6 years
xbmc/repo-resources
8 reviews, 94 commits, 31 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Top skills
Score
ios
10
gamemaker-studio-2
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8-bit
10

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Ali Mohammadpur
PhD Student at USI; SerenityOS Maintainer
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Switzerland
Rock Star
TOP CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROJECTS
SerenityOS/serenity
2298 reviews, 1844 commits, 1373 PRs in 2 years 10 months
alimpfard/citron
397 releases, 4 reviews, 2762 commits in 4 years 6 months
alimpfard/serenity
357 commits, 5 PRs, 2977 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Top skills
Score
webassembly
10
cpp
10
xmake
10

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