Top 100
Leaderboard
26,613 engineering profiles scored. These hundred read strongest to a startup
Working engineers only. Running a celebrity through the scorer does not put them here
Tied at 99 · upvotes settle the order
- 99still 99 · continues from the podiumupvotes settle the order
- No. 4
Nelson ElhageMember of Technical Staff at Anthropic99exceptional1 - No. 5
Vladimir FeinbergPrincipal Software Engineer at Google DeepMind99exceptional1 - No. 6
Neel RaoMember of Technical Staff at OpenAI99exceptional - No. 7
Alexander KernSoftware Engineer at Figma99exceptional - No. 8
David HallResearch Engineering Lead at Stanford University99exceptional - No. 9
Ben NewhouseMember of Technical Staff at OpenAI99exceptional - No. 10
Emma TangMember of Technical Staff at OpenAI99exceptional - No. 11
Jeffrey WangDistinguished Engineer at Cerebras99exceptional - No. 12
Mo BavarianTechnical Advisor to the CEO at OpenAI99exceptional - No. 13
Deyvison FerreiraFounding Engineer at Stealth AI Startup99exceptional - No. 14
Tudor BosmanMember of Technical Staff at OpenAI99exceptional - No. 15
Arnaud FournierManager, Forward Deployed Engineering at OpenAI99exceptional - No. 16
Andrew TullochAI Researcher at Meta99exceptional - No. 17
Jonah KallenbachMember of Technical Staff at Anthropic99exceptional - No. 18
Kevin KingMember of Technical Staff at OpenAI99exceptional - No. 19
Nick StathasMember of Technical Staff at OpenAI99exceptional - No. 20
Arun VijayvergiyaMember of Technical Staff at OpenAI99exceptional - No. 21
Benjamin MannMember of Technical Staff at Anthropic99exceptional
- No. 4
- 9813 tiedupvotes settle the order
how this ranks
- Ranked by score across 26,613 profiles scored
- Ties are ordered by upvotes · upvotes never change a score
- Profiles, not people · a quiet profile sits lower than the engineer deserves
- Public figures are screened out




