List of Popular American Software Developers

James Duncan Davidson is an American photographer and a software developer. While a software engineer at Sun Microsystems , Davidson created Tomcat, a Javabased webserver application and the Ant Javabased build tool. Davidson is the author or coauthor of several books on both using and writing software, including Learning Cocoa with ObjectiveC, Cocoa in a Nutshell, Running Mac OS X Panther, and Mac OS X Panther Hacks, all published by OReilly Media. He also contributed to Agile Web Development ....
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Gabriel Wilensky is an American author, software developer and entrepreneur. He was born in Uruguay, where his EasternEuropean grandparents had emigrated to before the Second World War. He is the author of the book Six Million Crucifixions , which traces the history of antisemitism in Christianity and the role it played in the Holocaust.....
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Paul Phillips is an American software developer, entrepreneur and poker player.....
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David Stephen Miller is an American software developer working on the Linux kernel, where he is the primary maintainer of networking and the SPARC implementation, and is also involved in other development work. He is also a founding member of the GNU Compiler Collection steering committee.....
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Eric Steven Raymond , often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, author of the widely cited 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar and other works, and opensource software advocate. He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack. In the 1990s, he edited and updated the Jargon File, currently in print as the The New Hackers Dictionary.....
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Dave Winer is an American software developer, entrepreneur, and writer that resides in New York City. Winer is noted for his contributions to outliners, scripting, content management, and web services, as well as blogging and podcasting. He is the founder of the software companies Living Videotext, Userland Software and Small Picture Inc., a former contributing editor for the Web magazine HotWired, the author of the Scripting News weblog, a former research fellow at Harvard Law School, and curr....
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Maciej Stachowiak is a Polish American software developer currently employed by Apple Inc. where he is a leader of the development team responsible for the Safari web browser and WebKit Framework. A longtime proponent of Open Source, Stachowiak was involved with the SCWM, GNOME and Nautilus projects for Linux before joining Apple. He is actively involved the development of web standards, and is a cochair of the World Wide Web Consortiums HTML 5 working group and a member of the Web Hypertext Ap....
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Jeff Wellemeyer is an American entrepreneur, software developer and an international property and resort developer. He is best known for creating the cloud based communications technologies for delivering IP PBX services, developing the first highspeed wireless Internet technology and developing the first computer systems to process financial Automated Clearing House transactions on the Internet. Currently he is the President and Chairman of the Smoothstone IP Communications Corporation based i....
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Ilya Zhitomirskiy was a RussianAmerican software developer and entrepreneur. Zhitomirskiy was a cofounder and developer of the Diaspora social network and the Diaspora free software that powers it.....
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