programmer i admire

recently someone asked me who programmer i admire and feel fomo(not exactly fomo but have respect for their craft)

in no particular order(still updating the doc):

Eric Zhang

sergey brin

Simon Hørup Eskildsen

Mikhail Parakhin

john carmack

Andrew Gallant

Adeeb Shihadeh

Mitchell Hashimoto

Sergey Slotin

Manish Gill

(cts)(zelic)

Georgios Konstantopoulos

Simon Willison

Evan Wallace

sidu ponnappa

Georgi Gerganov

Andrej karpathy

Alisa Sireneva

Simon Boehm