15 Famous Computer Engineers
Microsoft later bought for $2.5
billion. He also founded the
1. Bill Gates
video
a. Co-Founder of Microsoft
b. His passion for computers
made him one of the richest in
the world and through his
charity
foundation,
Bill
&
Melinda Gates Foundation
b. He is credited with founding
one of the most popular
software companies of all
which
Associates,
specializes
in
producing enterprise security
software.
a
philanthropist,
well-known
Dorsey
is
credited with funding 600
school
projects
in
Missouri.
a. Video Game Programmer &
Designer
game
designer
Markus Persson, also known
by his pseudonym, Notch,
created the sandbox video
game
b. Jeff, who left his lucrative job
at an investment firm to fulfil
The Washington Post, and its
affiliate
publications
along
with a spaceflight company,
Blue Origin.
6. Dustin Moskovitz
a. Entrepreneur
b. He
is
credited
with
co-
service,
Facebook. In 2008, he cofounded a web and mobile
application called Asana after
quitting Facebook.
7. Sundar Pichai
a. CEO of Google and its parent
4. Markus Persson
b. Swedish
a. Founder of Amazon.com
networking
a. CEO of Twitter Inc.
public
5. Jeff Bezos
founding the popular social
3. Jack Dorsey
b. Also
Mojang.
also owns the newspaper,
a. Computer Programmer
McAfee
company
his entrepreneurial ambition,
2. John McAfee
time,
game
Minecraft,
which
company Alphabet Inc
b. He
innovates
Google’s
products such as Chrome,
Google Drive and Google
Apps to leading the software
giant and being one of the
most sought-after names in
million to the donor-advised
the tech industry.
community
foundation,
Silicon
Community
8. Linus Torvalds
a. Software Engineer
b. He
developed
Valley
Foundation, in 2014.
the
open-
13. Eric Schmidt
source software Linux kernel,
a. Former CEO of Google
the Git system, and the scuba
b. He is the 55th-richest person
dive
planning
software
Subsurface.
in the world, with an estimated
net worth of $26.8 billion
9. Vitalik Buterin
14. Hamza Bendelladj
a. Computer scientist
a. Computer engineer
b. He became involved with
b. He
was
nicknamed
the
cryptocurrency early in its
"Smiling Hacker" due to a
inception, co-founding Bitcoin
computer virus, the "SpyEYE
Magazine in 2011.
Botnet" that infected more
10. Shiva Ayyadurai
than 60 million computers
a. Inventor of Email
worldwide.
b. His claim is based on a
software called EMAIL, which
15. John Carmack
a. Chief
technology
officer,
he wrote while studying at
Aerospace
engineer,
Livingston High School in the
Programmer,
Computer
late-1970s.
scientist
11. Kim Dotcom
b. Computer-game
a. Entrepreneur,
Programmer,
Hacker
Carmack
introduced
pioneering innovations in the
b. He is the founder of the nowdefunct file hosting service
Megaupload.
12. Jan Koum
a. CEO
John
developer
and
co-founder
of
WhatsApp
b. One of the most popular
billionaires around the world,
Koum donated almost $556
3-D game arena.