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30 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.
@rauchg
Founder & CEO at Vercel
@leerob
VP of Product at Vercel
@sahil
Founder & CEO at Gumroad
@levelsio
Founder at Nomad List, RemoteOK, and a portfolio of indie SaaS products
@sindresorhus
Open-source maintainer at Independent (maintainer of 1000+ npm packages)
@tj
Founder & engineer at Apex (and prior Express.js, koa, mocha, jade, stylus)
@tobi
Founder & CEO at Shopify
@torvalds
Creator and lead maintainer at Linux kernel, Git
@dhh
Co-founder & CTO at 37signals / Basecamp / Hey.com
@mitchellh
Founder & CEO of Ghostty Inc., co-founder of HashiCorp at Ghostty (current), HashiCorp (former)
@shykes
Founder at Dagger (current), Docker (former)
@mojombo
Co-founder at RedwoodJS, Chatterbug (current), GitHub (former)
@yyx990803
Creator and lead maintainer at Vue.js, Vite, VitePress
@gaearon
Open-source engineer at Independent (former React core team at Meta)
@adamwathan
Co-founder & CEO at Tailwind Labs
@steveschoger
Co-founder & CDO at Tailwind Labs
@calebporzio
Creator at Livewire, Alpine.js, Flux UI
@josevalim
Creator and co-founder at Elixir, Dashbit
@chrismccord
Creator at Phoenix Framework
@nat
Investor and former CEO at AI Grant, NFDG (current), GitHub (former CEO)
@danielgross
Investor at NFDG, AI Grant
@patio11
Writer and software entrepreneur at Independent (former Stripe Atlas, Bingo Card Creator)
@kentcdodds
Educator and software engineer at Epic Web, EpicAI (independent education business)
@kelseyhightower
Independent (former Distinguished Engineer at Google Cloud) at Independent
@tj-actions
Maintainer organization at tj-actions
@addyosmani
Engineering Lead at Google Chrome team
@shadcn
Creator at shadcn/ui
@yyathin
Founder at Yathin's public projects (see public source)
@transitive-bullshit
Founder at Agentic, prior projects in OSS AI tooling
@ezyang
Research engineer at Meta AI (PyTorch core)
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