Ciro Santilli Notable mentions:
- Tom Tromey from Red Hat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwDA3oIOtWw Dude's a GDB God! He might be gay from that talk.
Other notable people that are likely also awesome but Ciro has less familiarity with their contributions:
- Dwayne Richard Hipp from SQLite
- Daniel Stenberg from cURL
- Michael Niedermayer also from FFmpeg. ikaruga.co.uk/~snacky/mn.html highlights his brutal directness and efficiency, and sometimes sense of humour