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The engineers who made a big impact in 2026, as nominated by their peers
14Peter Steinberger
AI researcher and developer at OpenAI; founder of OpenClaw
13John Carmack
AGI researcher at Keen Technologies; co-founder of id Software and former CTO of Oculus VR
Dhruv Gupta
Product at a16z
10Matthew Li
Agents Lead at Google Antigravity, Google DeepMind
Mario Zechner
pi creator and lead at Earendil
9Naomi Jung
Software Engineer at Flint
8Jarred Sumner
Founder of Bun
8Vyom Fadia
Platform Lead at David AI
8Will Robinson
Chief Technology Officer at Plaid
7Thorsten Ball
Co-founder and co-creator of Amp
7ThePrimeagen
Software creator and live streamer
7Malte Ubl
CTO of Vercel
7Max Christoff
Chief Technology Officer at Everlaw
7Daniel Hoske
Chief Technology Officer at Cresta
7Georgi Gerganov
Creator of llama.cpp and ggml · Hugging Face
6Anirban Kundu
Chief Technology Officer at Instacart
6Luis Héctor Chávez
Chief Technology Officer at Replit
Joshua Bird
Software engineer; formerly at Palantir
6Ryan Lopopolo
Principal Engineer, Agentic Google Cloud Platform at Google
5Federico Cassano
Pre-training Research at SpaceXAI
5Charlie Marsh
Building Python tooling at OpenAI; founder of Astral
Zach Brock
Engineering leader at OpenAI; formerly CEO of Adept
4Lee Robinson
Machine learning at SpaceX
4Simon Willison
Independent open source developer building tools for data journalism, SQLite, and large language models
4Jeff Currier
Chief Technology Officer at Chime
3Pieter Levels
Independent founder and developer building bootstrapped internet startups
Mitchell Hashimoto
Co-founder at Superlogical; creator of Ghostty; co-founder of HashiCorp
3Siva Gurumurthy
Chief Technology Officer at Harvey
3yev
Engineering consultant at a16z New Media; developer tools engineer
1Evan You
Founder of Vue.js and Vite; leads open-source JavaScript tooling at Cloudflare
1Tri Dao
Princeton computer science professor; co-founder and chief scientist of Together AI
1Ant Wilson
Co-founder and CTO at Supabase
1Batuhan Taskaya
Head of Engineering at fal
Allan Hamzic
Software engineer at Base Power building factory systems
1Lauren Tan
Principal engineer at SpaceXAI; React Compiler core team
Griffin Miller
1kevin
1Julia Pope
Arth Bohra
swaraj bachu
1Leo - 15 y/o founder
Founder and developer; intern at Mastra
1Pranit
Builder at Vercel
1Vijaye Raji
CTO of Applications at OpenAI
0Harsh Sinha
CTO and US President at Wise
0Mikhail Parakhin
Chief Technology Officer at Shopify
Victor Zhu
Engineer at OpenAI building software with Codex and agentic workflows