Famous Software Architects

William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. He grew up in an upper-middle-class family that emphasized education. Gates showed early competitiveness and innovative thinking. His interest in computers started at Lakeside School when he was thirteen, where he met Paul Allen, his future business partner. The two spent time exploring machine potential, building a passion that shaped their future. In 1975, Gates left Harvard University.

Charles Simonyi (Hungarian: Simonyi Károly; born September 10, 1948) is a Hungarian-born American software architect. He started and led Microsoft's applications group, building the first versions of the Microsoft Office suite. He founded and led Intentional Software, which Microsoft acquired in 2017. Simonyi became the fifth space tourist and the second Hungarian in space aboard Soyuz TMA-10 in April 2007. In March 2009, he made a second trip aboard Soyuz TMA-14.

Jack Patrick Dorsey, born November 19, 1976, is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He co-founded and served as CEO of Twitter and Square, a mobile payments company.

Thomas Knoll is an American software engineer who created Adobe Photoshop. He started developing image processing routines in 1988. After creating the first core routines, Knoll showed them to his brother, John Knoll, who worked at Industrial Light and Magic. John liked the work, suggested new features, and pushed Tom to bundle them with a graphical user interface. In 1989, John sold the program to Adobe Systems, which released it as Photoshop. Thomas Knoll was the lead developer until version CS4 and currently works on the Camera.

Brad Templeton, born June 1960 near Toronto, is a Canadian software developer and internet entrepreneur. He is also an online community pioneer, publisher of news, comedy, science fiction, and e-books. Templeton works as a writer, photographer, civil rights advocate, futurist, public speaker, educator, and self-driving car consultant. He graduated from the University of Waterloo.

Mr. Thione has years of research experience in computational linguistics and search. He held Research Scientist positions at the CommerceNet consortium and the Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory. His research focuses on discourse parsing, document analysis, automatic summarization, question answering, natural language search, and information retrieval. He co-authored publications in computational linguistics and is a named inventor on 13 worldwide patent applications covering these fields.

Mark Eugene Russinovich, born around 1966, is a Spanish-born American software engineer. He serves as the CTO of Microsoft Azure. He cofounded the software producer Winternals before Microsoft acquired it in 2006.

Gene Leybzon is the CTO at Loyalize.

Scott is now an award-winning producer and writer, starring in several feature films and appearing on television. Scott was not always a professional entertainer. He founded his third company, Imp Films, in 2008. He joined the entertainment industry after becoming an Internet software entrepreneur and consultant. People often describe him as charming and funny. However, some individuals confuse him with a "dark knight" due to his training as a black belt in Jeet Kune Do under Bruce Lee.

Raymond "Ray" Ozzie, born November 20, 1955, is an American software industry entrepreneur. He was Chief Technical Officer and Chief Software Architect at Microsoft from 2005 to 2010. Before Microsoft, he created IBM Notes (formerly Lotus Notes).

I live in Bangalore, India. I work there as a senior architect for Wipro technologies. My family includes my wife Lalitha and my son Adit. My interests are science, history, Telugu literature, and ham radio.

Greg completed "Love in the Time of the Apocalypse" in 2005. He also finished a novel called "The Land of Magical Thinking". "Magical Thinking" asks if the Great Depression ever ended.

James L. (Jim) Weaver is the Senior VP of Technology at Veriana Networks, Inc. He writes books and speaks at conferences. He provides training and consulting on Java and JavaFX. Jim posts regularly to his blog, http://JavaFXpert.com, to teach JavaFX Script and other JavaFX technologies.

Guillaume Laforge is the Groovy project manager. He also leads the specification for JSR-241, which is the formal specification of the language.

Deepen Shah is an American web developer and businessman. He created buzzd, FanBridge, and eztxtmsg. Omnicom's BBDO ad agency acquired these platforms in 2006.

Dipock Das is a software architect with over 20 years of experience in the software industry.

Greg Detre is a neuroscientist, software architect, and the founder of Memrise.

Arturo Pisapia is a nominee for the 34th Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approaches Sports Programming.