Founder & Public Engineering Profiles
33 self-published public-figure engineering identities, founders, OSS maintainers, technical executives.
Strict inclusion criteria: every profile on this index covers a public figure who self-publishes their GitHub handle on their own company website or primary social profile. No inferred-from-LinkedIn data. No private contact details. Every page carries an opt-out path at /founder/opt-out.
Guillermo Rauch
@rauchg
Founder & CEO at Vercel
Lee Robinson
@leerob
VP of Product at Vercel
Sahil Lavingia
@sahil
Founder & CEO at Gumroad
Pieter Levels
@levelsio
Founder at Nomad List, RemoteOK, and a portfolio of indie SaaS products
Sindre Sorhus
@sindresorhus
Open-source maintainer at Independent (maintainer of 1000+ npm packages)
TJ Holowaychuk
@tj
Founder & engineer at Apex (and prior Express.js, koa, mocha, jade, stylus)
Tobias Lütke
@tobi
Founder & CEO at Shopify
Linus Torvalds
@torvalds
Creator and lead maintainer at Linux kernel, Git
David Heinemeier Hansson
@dhh
Co-founder & CTO at 37signals / Basecamp / Hey.com
Mitchell Hashimoto
@mitchellh
Founder & CEO of Ghostty Inc., co-founder of HashiCorp at Ghostty (current), HashiCorp (former)
Solomon Hykes
@shykes
Founder at Dagger (current), Docker (former)
Tom Preston-Werner
@mojombo
Co-founder at RedwoodJS, Chatterbug (current), GitHub (former)
Evan You
@yyx990803
Creator and lead maintainer at Vue.js, Vite, VitePress
Dan Abramov
@gaearon
Open-source engineer at Independent (former React core team at Meta)
Adam Wathan
@adamwathan
Co-founder & CEO at Tailwind Labs
Steve Schoger
@steveschoger
Co-founder & CDO at Tailwind Labs
Caleb Porzio
@calebporzio
Creator at Livewire, Alpine.js, Flux UI
José Valim
@josevalim
Creator and co-founder at Elixir, Dashbit
Chris McCord
@chrismccord
Creator at Phoenix Framework
Nat Friedman
@nat
Investor and former CEO at AI Grant, NFDG (current), GitHub (former CEO)
Daniel Gross
@danielgross
Investor at NFDG, AI Grant
Patrick McKenzie
@patio11
Writer and software entrepreneur at Independent (former Stripe Atlas, Bingo Card Creator)
Kent C. Dodds
@kentcdodds
Educator and software engineer at Epic Web, EpicAI (independent education business)
Kelsey Hightower
@kelseyhightower
Independent (former Distinguished Engineer at Google Cloud) at Independent
TJ Holowaychuk (tj-actions org)
@tj-actions
Maintainer organization at tj-actions
Addy Osmani
@addyosmani
Engineering Lead at Google Chrome team
shadcn
@shadcn
Creator at shadcn/ui
Yathin Sethu
@yyathin
Founder at Yathin's public projects (see public source)
Travis Fischer
@transitive-bullshit
Founder at Agentic, prior projects in OSS AI tooling
Edward Z. Yang
@ezyang
Research engineer at Meta AI (PyTorch core)
Andrei Mihu
@zyro
Co-founder, Heroic Labs at Heroic Labs (Nakama open-source game server)
Chris Molozian
@novabyte
Co-founder, Heroic Labs at Heroic Labs (Nakama open-source game server)
Mo Firouz
@mofirouz
Co-founder, Heroic Labs at Heroic Labs (Nakama open-source game server)
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