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9793 Torvalds

The asteroid is named after Linus Torvalds, a Finnish-American software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel.

Gilad Bracha

Gilad Bracha is the creator of the Newspeak programming language, a software engineer at Google and a member of the Dart (programming language) team in Aarhus.

James Hoffman

James Hoffman is a software engineer and inventor located in Alameda, California, who has worked in scientific visualization and was instrumental in producing the first visualization of Costa's minimal surface.

Kellee Santiago

Santiago was born in Caracas, Venezuela and was raised in Richmond, Virginia, where she played video games from a young age and was encouraged by her software engineer father to experiment with computers.

Ken Orr

Kenneth T. (Ken) Orr (born ca 1939) is an American software engineer, executive and consultant, known for his contributions in the field of software engineering to structured analysis and with the Warnier/Orr diagram.


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Anand Narayan

After graduation he went on to become a software engineer, based out of Bangalore.

Anthony Barr

Anthony James Barr (born 1940), an American programming language designer, software engineer, and inventor

Bernhard Wagner

Bernhard Wagner (born in Caracas, living in Zürich) is a guitar player, composer, software engineer and software engineering lecturer.

Bill Connelly

William Connolley (born 1964), software engineer, climatology blogger and Wikipedia editor

Brian James

Brian R. James (born 1974), American game designer and software engineer

China–Finland relations

Linux, the open source code first developed by Finnish software engineer Linus Torvalds, is playing a major role in the development of China’s IT sector – and in the country’s rapid industrial development as a whole.

Chris Offutt

Chris Offutt was born in Lexington, Kentucky, the son of Andrew J. Offutt, an author, and his wife, and brother of software engineer Jeff Offutt.

Daniel Barrett

Daniel J. Barrett (born 1963), American writer and software engineer

Édouard Chambon

Édouard Chambon (Valence), is a French software engineer who formerly was world record holder for fastest single time on a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube with a time of 9.18 seconds and fastest average time of 11.48 seconds.

Gaurav Chakrabarty

He played the character 'Rik', a serious and docile software engineer in love with an ad-agency employee Kamalika (Ridhima Ghosh).

Goto

Some programmers, such as Linux Kernel designer and coder Linus Torvalds or software engineer and book author Steve McConnell, also object to Dijkstra's point of view, stating that GOTOs can be a useful language feature, improving program speed, size and code clearness, but only when used in a sensible way by a comparably sensible programmer.

Green Man Gaming

Packham had been previously responsible for developing the technology behind Prizefight, volunteering as a Red Shirt at Multiplay LAN events, and working a Software Engineer at Elekta.

Indian Mujahideen

Abdus Subhan Qureshi Alias Tauqeer, 36, sought: A software engineer from Mumbai.

James Barr

Anthony James Barr (born 1940), also known as Jim Barr, software engineer

Jaroslav Kysela

Jaroslav Kysela (aka perex), is a Czech software engineer primarily known as the creator and initial developer of the ALSA project for sound drivers in the Linux operating system.

Liepa

Peter Liepa, software engineer and former video game designer

Maynes

Dan Maynes-Aminzade (aka Monzy) is a Nerdcore hip-hop artist and software engineer at Google

Michael Sutton

Michael Kelly Sutton (born 1987), software engineer, entrepreneur and minimalist

Narayana Murthy

N. R. Narayana Murthy is an Indian industrialist, software engineer and founder and Chairman Emeritus of Infosys Technologies Limited.

RateMyProfessors.com

RateMyProfessors.com (RMP) is a review site, founded in May 1999 by John Swapceinski, a software engineer from Menlo Park, California, which allows college and university students to assign ratings to professors and campuses of American, Canadian, and United Kingdom institutions.

Robert Pike

Rob Pike (born 1956), Canadian software engineer and author

Saffron Technology

James Fleming, Chief Software Engineer, former software developer at IBM Knowledge Management and Intelligent Agent Center, Raleigh, NC.

Sasural Genda Phool

On the other hand, Ishaan Kashyap(Jay Soni) is a young software engineer, who lives with his extended family in Delhi-6.

Surender Mohan Pathak

Two books from Pathak's popular Vimal series — 65 Lakh ki Dakaiti and Din Dahade Dakaiti — were translated into English under the titles The 65 Lakh Heist and Daylight Robbery by Sudarshan Purohit, a Bangalore-based software engineer.