= The most awesome systems programming software engineers
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Notable mentions:
* Tom Tromey from <Red Hat>: https://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>
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Stenberg[Daniel Stenberg] from cURL
* Michael Niedermayer also from <FFmpeg>. http://ikaruga.co.uk/~snacky/mn.html highlights his brutal directness and efficiency, and sometimes sense of humour


 The most awesome systems programmers