Tuesday, February 3, 2015
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- Shayne
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Geeks are often portrayed as boring people with thick spectacles, but think again! We bring 10 programmers who are big time nerds, popular and look super hot!
1. Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
Yes, Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is one of the most good looking programmers ever, he is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google together with Larry Page.
2. Leah Culver, founder and CEO of Grove
Leah co-founded the micro-blogging site Pownce in 2007 which was acquired by Six Apart in December 2008. She left Six Apart in February 2010 and co-founded Convore, which focused on real time chat in 2011. In 2012, Convore added a new product, Grove.io which focuses on hosted real-time chat for companies and announced that Convore service will be discontinued on April 1, 2012. On September 15, Grove.io announced that it will cease service on October 13, 2012. Shortly thereafter on September 28, 2012, Revolution Systems announced that they had acquired Grove.io and would be continuing its operations.
Culver was named among the Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 by Fast Company Magazine in November 2008.
3. Pavel Durov, CEO of Vkontakte
Popular as the Zuckerberg of Russia, Pavel is 29 and is the CEO of the social networking site VK.
4. Jon Dahl, ex co-founder and CEO at Zencoder, Inc.
The ex co-founder and CEO at Zencoder, Inc. which offer cloud-encoding to companies, Jon is currently serving as the VP of encoding services.
5. Matt Mullenweg, founder and lead developer of WordPress
Matt is known for creating a software that supports over 15 per cent of the Internet. He is best known for developing the free and open source web software WordPress, now managed by The WordPress Foundation. He is the founder of Automattic, which was created to provide services to the WordPress ecosystem, we're the P&G behind brands you know like WordPress.com, Akismet, Jetpack, Gravatar, VaultPress, Polldaddy.
6. Jade Raymond, producer of Assassin's Creed and managing director of Ubisoft Toronto
She started her career with programming for Sony and became an instant celebrity in the video game community. Jade accounts a huge fan base, media presence and many awesome games. She is currently the Executive and the Managing Director of Ubisoft Toronto.
7. Amanda Wixted, early Zynga employee, game-maker
Amanda is currently the Founder and Owner at Meteor Grove Software, but she claimed popularity by being Zynga's 75th employee and leading their mobile apps team. She also got an offer from Instagram that she apparently turned down.
8. Sara Haider, Software engineer at Twitter
Sara is the staff Software Engineer at Twitter and that's not it! She is also the Technical Lead in Android at Vine Labs, Inc., Advisor at LocalResponse, Advisor at Girls Who Code, Advisor at Visibli, Mentor at Extreme Startups. She has earlier worked for Google as well!
9. Corrine Yu, ex-principal programmer of Microsoft's Halo
The programmer of Brothers in Arms and Borderlands for XBOX 360, PS3, and PC. The Microsoft's ex-principle programmer of Halo has just joined Naughty Dog. She is known as one of the most influential women in gaming indusrty.
10. Kaila MacDonald, Developer at Phoenix
Currently working as a developer for Phoenix Group, Kaila has earlier worked as Web Developer with Squareflo for over three years. She can communicate in sign language and in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and much more.
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