Datasets:
year int64 2.02k 2.03k | rank int64 1 1.66k | username stringlengths 1 32 | name stringlengths 1 230 β | times_trended int64 1 124 | best_rank int64 1 25 | avg_rank float64 1 25 | median_rank int64 1 25 | popular_repos stringlengths 5 133 β | recent_company stringlengths 2 141 β | twitter_username stringlengths 3 15 β |
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2,025 | 1 | comfyanonymous | null | 18 | 2 | 11.72 | 11 | comfyanonymous/ComfyUI | Comfy-Org | null |
2,025 | 2 | emilk | Emil Ernerfeldt | 12 | 1 | 8.17 | 6 | emilk/egui | Rerun.io, egui | null |
2,025 | 3 | sxyazi | δΈε²ι
misaki masa | 12 | 1 | 8.5 | 6 | sxyazi/yazi | null | sxyazi |
2,025 | 4 | elie222 | Elie Steinbock | 9 | 1 | 3.33 | 2 | elie222/inbox-zero | inbox-zero | elie2222 |
2,025 | 5 | yetone | yetone | 15 | 3 | 12.87 | 14 | yetone/avante.nvim | Isoform | yetone |
2,025 | 6 | hiyouga | Yaowei Zheng | 11 | 1 | 9.09 | 10 | hiyouga/LLaMA-Factory | Millennium Science School | llamafactory_ai |
2,025 | 7 | hrydgard | Henrik RydgΓ₯rd | 9 | 2 | 8.33 | 7 | hrydgard/ppsspp | Millionth Line AB | henrikrydgard |
2,025 | 8 | jlowin | Jeremiah Lowin | 10 | 1 | 10.5 | 10 | jlowin/fastmcp | PrefectHQ | jlowin |
2,025 | 9 | azure-sdk | Azure SDK Bot | 12 | 1 | 14 | 16 | azure-sdk/github-event-processor-test | Microsoft | null |
2,025 | 10 | VikParuchuri | Vik Paruchuri | 9 | 3 | 10.67 | 9 | VikParuchuri/marker | null | VikParuchuri |
2,025 | 11 | zeux | Arseny Kapoulkine | 7 | 3 | 7.57 | 6 | zeux/meshoptimizer | null | zeuxcg |
2,025 | 12 | lukasmasuch | Lukas Masuch | 6 | 1 | 5.83 | 3 | lukasmasuch/best-of-ml-python | Snowflake | lukasmasuch |
2,025 | 13 | dalathegreat | Daniel Γster | 7 | 3 | 9.14 | 8 | dalathegreat/Battery-Emulator | Dala's EV Repair | null |
2,025 | 14 | amir1376 | AmirHossein Abdolmotallebi | 6 | 3 | 6.33 | 3 | amir1376/ab-download-manager | Home | null |
2,025 | 15 | Cyan4973 | Yann Collet | 6 | 2 | 7 | 7 | Cyan4973/xxHash | facebook | null |
2,025 | 16 | mattt | Mattt | 7 | 2 | 10.29 | 8 | mattt/Ono | null | mattt |
2,025 | 17 | ayangweb | ayangweb | 5 | 1 | 4.2 | 3 | ayangweb/BongoCat | null | null |
2,025 | 18 | miurla | Yoshiki Miura | 5 | 1 | 5.8 | 4 | miurla/morphic | null | miiura |
2,025 | 19 | EricLBuehler | Eric Buehler | 7 | 1 | 11.86 | 8 | EricLBuehler/mistral.rs | null | null |
2,025 | 20 | rasbt | Sebastian Raschka | 7 | 1 | 12.57 | 14 | rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch | null | rasbt |
2,025 | 21 | mxsm | mxsm | 6 | 2 | 10.5 | 6 | mxsm/rocketmq-rust | apache | RocketMQRust |
2,025 | 22 | LmeSzinc | null | 6 | 4 | 10.83 | 10 | LmeSzinc/AzurLaneAutoScript | null | null |
2,025 | 23 | idosal | Ido Salomon | 5 | 2 | 8.6 | 4 | idosal/git-mcp | null | idosal1 |
2,025 | 24 | mldangelo | Michael | 5 | 5 | 9 | 9 | mldangelo/personal-site | Promptfoo | dangelosaurus |
2,025 | 25 | DaniPopes | null | 5 | 1 | 9.4 | 8 | DaniPopes/keccak-asm | tempoxyz | danipopes |
2,025 | 26 | dgtlmoon | dgtlmoon | 6 | 1 | 12.17 | 10 | dgtlmoon/changedetection.io | null | null |
2,025 | 27 | DHowett | Dustin L. Howett | 4 | 2 | 6 | 4 | DHowett/go-plist | Microsoft | DHowett |
2,025 | 28 | 78 | Xiaoxia | 5 | 2 | 10.2 | 2 | 78/xiaozhi-esp32 | null | null |
2,025 | 29 | mistercrunch | Maxime Beauchemin | 4 | 4 | 6.5 | 4 | mistercrunch/superset | preset-io | null |
2,025 | 30 | randombit | Jack Lloyd | 5 | 2 | 11.2 | 9 | randombit/botan | null | null |
2,025 | 31 | lgallard | Luis M. Gallardo D. | 4 | 3 | 7.75 | 7 | lgallard/terraform-aws-backup | null | null |
2,025 | 32 | bracesproul | Brace Sproul | 5 | 4 | 11.6 | 11 | bracesproul/awesome-langgraphjs | langchain-ai | bracesproul |
2,025 | 33 | MervinPraison | Mervin Praison | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | MervinPraison/PraisonAI | null | null |
2,025 | 34 | zhaochenyang20 | θ΅΅ζ¨ι³ | 5 | 5 | 12.4 | 8 | zhaochenyang20/Awesome-ML-SYS-Tutorial | University of California, Los Angeles | GenAI_is_real |
2,025 | 35 | mitchellh | Mitchell Hashimoto | 6 | 6 | 15 | 17 | mitchellh/nixos-config | null | mitchellh |
2,025 | 36 | LaurentMazare | Laurent Mazare | 4 | 4 | 10 | 10 | LaurentMazare/tch-rs | null | lmazare |
2,025 | 37 | hathach | Ha Thach | 4 | 2 | 10.5 | 11 | hathach/tinyusb | adafruit | tinyusb |
2,025 | 38 | seveibar | Severin Ibarluzea | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | seveibar/cloudflare-cors-proxy | seamapi tscircuit CollegeAI | seveibar |
2,025 | 39 | a-r-r-o-w | Aryan V S | 4 | 2 | 11 | 10 | a-r-r-o-w/finetrainers | null | null |
2,025 | 40 | steipete | Peter Steinberger | 4 | 1 | 11 | 12 | steipete/agent-rules | Full-Time Open-Sourcerer | steipete |
2,025 | 41 | JamesNK | James Newton-King | 4 | 8 | 11.25 | 12 | JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json | Microsoft | null |
2,025 | 42 | buger | Leonid Bugaev | 4 | 5 | 11.25 | 9 | buger/goreplay | Tyk.io | buger |
2,025 | 43 | bolinfest | Michael Bolin | 4 | 3 | 11.5 | 12 | bolinfest/monaco-tm | Meta | null |
2,025 | 44 | monkeyWie | Levi | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | monkeyWie/gopeed-extension-baiduwp | null | JayPlayDota |
2,025 | 45 | Jarred-Sumner | Jarred Sumner | 4 | 1 | 12 | 11 | Jarred-Sumner/hop | null | jarredsumner |
2,025 | 46 | schrockn | Nick Schrock | 3 | 6 | 7.33 | 6 | schrockn/stainless-test-python | Dagster Labs | schrockn |
2,025 | 47 | arvinxx | Arvin Xu | 4 | 1 | 12.25 | 13 | arvinxx/gitmoji-commit-workflow | null | null |
2,025 | 48 | sairon | Jan ΔermΓ‘k | 3 | 7 | 8 | 7 | sairon/esphome-nspanel-lovelace-ui | OpenHomeFoundation home-assistant | null |
2,025 | 49 | hyochan | Hyo | 4 | 6 | 12.75 | 13 | hyochan/expo-iap | Hyo Dev | hyodotdev |
2,025 | 50 | qgallouedec | Quentin GallouΓ©dec | 3 | 1 | 8.67 | 7 | qgallouedec/panda-gym | huggingface | QGallouedec |
2,025 | 51 | AlexCheema | Alex Cheema | 3 | 6 | 9.33 | 10 | AlexCheema/mlx | University of Oxford | null |
2,025 | 52 | arsenm | Matt Arsenault | 4 | 3 | 13.75 | 16 | arsenm/sanitizers-cmake | null | null |
2,025 | 53 | MichaIng | null | 3 | 6 | 9.67 | 10 | MichaIng/DietPi | DietPi | DietPi_ |
2,025 | 54 | Yeuoly | null | 4 | 12 | 14.25 | 13 | Yeuoly/0xUBypass | YeuolyWorks | yeuoly1 |
2,025 | 55 | weblate | Weblate (bot) | 4 | 11 | 14.5 | 12 | weblate/texworks | WeblateOrg | WeblateOrg |
2,025 | 56 | roblourens | Rob Lourens | 3 | 5 | 11 | 12 | null | Microsoft | roblourens |
2,025 | 57 | dqbd | David Duong | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | dqbd/tiktokenizer | null | __dqbd |
2,025 | 58 | mattsse | Matthias Seitz | 3 | 7 | 11.67 | 14 | mattsse/chromiumoxide | null | mattsse_ |
2,025 | 59 | baconpaul | Paul | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | baconpaul/six-sines | null | null |
2,025 | 60 | blampe | Bryce Lampe | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | blampe/rreading-glasses | Pulumi | null |
2,025 | 61 | sethvargo | Seth Vargo | 3 | 7 | 12.33 | 14 | sethvargo/go-githubactions | LinkedIn | sethvargo |
2,025 | 62 | LalitMaganti | Lalit Maganti | 2 | 2 | 5.5 | 5 | LalitMaganti/LalitMaganti | google UK | null |
2,025 | 63 | OrKoN | Alex Rudenko | 2 | 1 | 5.5 | 5 | null | null | null |
2,025 | 64 | logan-markewich | Logan | 3 | 3 | 12.67 | 12 | logan-markewich/llama_index_starter_pack | LlamaIndex | LoganMarkewich |
2,025 | 65 | bghira | bagheera | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | bghira/SimpleTuner | null | null |
2,025 | 66 | alexey-milovidov | Alexey Milovidov | 3 | 12 | 12.67 | 12 | null | ClickHouse | null |
2,025 | 67 | JarbasAl | JarbasAI | 3 | 1 | 13 | 13 | null | OpenVoiceOS | null |
2,025 | 68 | mikavilpas | Mika Vilpas | 3 | 7 | 13 | 7 | mikavilpas/yazi.nvim | null | null |
2,025 | 69 | RobinMalfait | Robin Malfait | 3 | 4 | 13 | 16 | RobinMalfait/advent-of-code | tailwindlabs | malfaitrobin |
2,025 | 70 | geohot | George Hotz | 2 | 5 | 6.5 | 6 | geohot/fromthetransistor | commaai tinygrad | null |
2,025 | 71 | sissbruecker | Sascha IΓbrΓΌcker | 2 | 6 | 6.5 | 6 | sissbruecker/linkding | vaadin | null |
2,025 | 72 | HenryHengZJ | Henry Heng | 6 | 9 | 19.5 | 21 | HenryHengZJ/flowise-streamlit | null | null |
2,025 | 73 | DefTruth | DefTruth | 3 | 3 | 13.33 | 12 | DefTruth/CUDA-Learn-Notes | xlite-dev, vipshop | null |
2,025 | 74 | michalsnik | MichaΕ SajnΓ³g | 2 | 7 | 7 | 7 | michalsnik/aos | Busright | null |
2,025 | 75 | lirantal | Liran Tal | 2 | 7 | 7 | 7 | lirantal/npq | snyk | liran_tal |
2,025 | 76 | bpasero | Benjamin Pasero | 3 | 11 | 13.67 | 15 | bpasero/vscode-node-sqlite3-perf | Microsoft | BenjaminPasero |
2,025 | 77 | wendigo | Mateusz "Serafin" Gajewski | 4 | 3 | 16.75 | 20 | null | trinodb starburstdata | wendigo |
2,025 | 78 | AliSoftware | Olivier Halligon | 3 | 7 | 13.67 | 12 | AliSoftware/OHHTTPStubs | Freelance on iOS Tooling and DX | null |
2,025 | 79 | holtskinner | Holt Skinner | 3 | 5 | 13.67 | 14 | null | google | null |
2,025 | 80 | maxdeviant | Marshall Bowers | 2 | 5 | 7.5 | 7 | maxdeviant/peacock | zed-industries | null |
2,025 | 81 | threepointone | Sunil Pai | 3 | 12 | 13.67 | 14 | threepointone/durable-chat | null | threepointone |
2,025 | 82 | pschatzmann | Phil Schatzmann | 2 | 6 | 7.5 | 7 | pschatzmann/arduino-audio-tools | Phil Schatzmann | null |
2,025 | 83 | brophdawg11 | Matt Brophy | 4 | 8 | 17 | 19 | brophdawg11/minimal-rrv7-template | Staff Developer - remix-run Shopify | brophdawg11 |
2,025 | 84 | mwaskom | Michael Waskom | 2 | 4 | 8.5 | 8 | mwaskom/seaborn | modal-labs | null |
2,025 | 85 | zerosnacks | zerosnacks | 2 | 4 | 8.5 | 8 | zerosnacks/repro_flaky_grantRole_transactions | null | zerosnacks |
2,025 | 86 | Myriad-Dreamin | null | 3 | 5 | 14.67 | 17 | Myriad-Dreamin/tinymist | null | null |
2,025 | 87 | martinothamar | Martin Othamar | 2 | 6 | 9 | 9 | martinothamar/Mediator | Forse | null |
2,025 | 88 | dsnet | Joe Tsai | 2 | 9 | 9 | 9 | dsnet/jsonstruct | tailscale | null |
2,025 | 89 | leestott | Lee Stott | 2 | 9 | 9 | 9 | leestott/ai-agents-for-beginners | Microsoft | lee_stott |
2,025 | 90 | HansKristian-Work | Hans-Kristian Arntzen | 2 | 5 | 9.5 | 9 | HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton | Arntzen Software AS | null |
2,025 | 91 | ripienaar | R.I.Pienaar | 2 | 3 | 9.5 | 9 | ripienaar/free-for-dev | null | ripienaar |
2,025 | 92 | mylinuxforwork | Stephan Raabe | 3 | 2 | 15 | 20 | mylinuxforwork/dotfiles | ML4W | null |
2,025 | 93 | me-no-dev | Me No Dev | 2 | 5 | 9.5 | 9 | me-no-dev/ESPAsyncWebServer | espressif | null |
2,025 | 94 | danielchalef | Daniel Chalef | 2 | 2 | 9.5 | 9 | null | getzep | null |
2,025 | 95 | bdraco | J. Nick Koston | 2 | 10 | 10 | 10 | null | null | bdraco |
2,025 | 96 | Narsil | Nicolas Patry | 2 | 6 | 11 | 11 | Narsil/rdev | huggingface | null |
2,025 | 97 | joshhanley | Josh Hanley | 2 | 1 | 11 | 11 | null | null | _joshhanley |
2,025 | 98 | dcramer | David Cramer | 2 | 10 | 11 | 11 | dcramer/peated | getsentry | zeeg |
2,025 | 99 | nickfrosty | Nick Frostbutter | 2 | 11 | 11 | 11 | nickfrosty/hono-vercel-solana | null | nickfrosty |
2,025 | 100 | hartwork | Sebastian Pipping | 2 | 11 | 11 | 11 | hartwork/grub2-theme-preview | null | null |
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GitHub Top Developers by Year (2015-2025)
A derived dataset showing the top-ranked GitHub trending developers for each year, based on weighted scoring of their trending appearances across 41,841 raw data points from the Wayback Machine.
π Dataset Overview
- Total Entries: 8,125 ranked developers
- Years Covered: 2015 - 2025 (11 years)
- Unique Developers: 4,763
- Source: Derived from Wayback Machine snapshots of GitHub trending developers
- Data Order: Sorted by year (descending: 2025 β 2015) and rank within each year
π§ Dataset Configurations
This dataset has two configurations defined in the YAML header:
Configuration: yearly (Default)
Top-ranked developers by year with 8,125 entries
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset('ronantakizawa/github-top-developers', 'yearly')
Columns:
year(int): Year (2015-2025)rank(int): Overall rank for that year (1 = highest score)username(string): Developer/organization GitHub usernamename(string): Real name of developer/organization (enriched)times_trended(int): Number of times appeared on trendingbest_rank(int): Highest rank achieved (lowest number)avg_rank(float): Average rank across all appearancesmedian_rank(int): Median rankpopular_repos(string): Top repositories (comma-separated)recent_company(string): Company/organization affiliation (as of Dec 2025)twitter_username(string): Twitter/X handle (as of Dec 2025)
Configuration: full
Complete daily trending data with 41,841 entries (sorted by date: most recent first)
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset('ronantakizawa/github-top-developers', 'full')
Columns:
name(string): Developer/organization GitHub usernamerank(int): Position in trending (1-25)popular_repo(string): Associated repository at the timedate(string): Snapshot date (YYYY-MM-DD, sorted descending)
π Scoring Methodology
Each developer's yearly score is calculated using:
Score = Ξ£ (26 - rank) for each trending appearance
Where:
- Rank 1 = 25 points
- Rank 2 = 24 points
- ...
- Rank 25 = 1 point
Why this works:
- β Rewards frequent appearances (more days trending = more points)
- β Rewards high rankings (rank 1 is worth more than rank 25. We use 25 because github ranks the top 25 developers on their page)
- β Balances consistency with peak performance
π Key Insights
1. Year Winners (Highest Score Each Year)
| Year | Winner | Score | Appearances | Notable Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | comfyanonymous | 257 | 18 | ComfyUI |
| 2024 | emilk | 2,052 | 124 | egui (Rust GUI) |
| 2023 | hrydgard | 1,858 | 111 | PPSSPP emulator |
| 2022 | emilk | 1,958 | 107 | egui |
| 2021 | PySimpleGUI | 1,993 | 120 | PySimpleGUI |
| 2020 | stefanprodan | 1,033 | 64 | Flux CD |
| 2019 | Microsoft | 308 | 15 | Various |
| 2018 | 325 | 15 | Various | |
| 2017 | facebook / Microsoft | 77 | 4 | (tie) |
| 2016 | 485 | 23 | React ecosystem | |
| 2015 | 48 | 2 | React |
Notable: emilk appeared on trending 124 times in 2024 alone (nearly every 3 days!)
2. All-Time Top 10 (Total Score Across All Years)
| Rank | Developer | Total Score | Total Appearances | Years Active |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | emilk | 6,311 | 370 | 2020-2025 |
| 2 | hrydgard | 5,181 | 324 | 2018-2024 |
| 3 | stefanprodan | 4,910 | 306 | 2018-2022 |
| 4 | stephencelis | 4,870 | 301 | 2016-2024 |
| 5 | a8m | 4,649 | 323 | 2016-2024 |
| 6 | hathach | 3,629 | 264 | 2018-2024 |
| 7 | azure-sdk | 3,621 | 251 | 2020-2024 |
| 8 | twpayne | 3,124 | 196 | 2017-2024 |
| 9 | PySimpleGUI | 3,059 | 185 | 2019-2023 |
| 10 | arvidn | 2,737 | 164 | 2017-2022 |
3. Trend Shifts Over Time
2015-2017: Organization Era
- Big tech dominated: Facebook, Google, Microsoft
- Individual developers rarely broke top 3
- React ecosystem (Facebook) was the dominant force
2018-2019: Transition Period
- Mix of organizations and influential individuals
- Rise of open-source foundations (Apache, Linux Foundation)
- Container/cloud technologies gained traction
2020-2025: Individual Developer Era
- Individuals dominate top ranks consistently
- emilk (egui) becomes most successful developer ever
- Specialized tool creators rise (PySimpleGUI, hrydgard's PPSSPP)
- AI/ML researchers become more prominent (rasbt, 2024-2025)
5. Notable Patterns
- Extreme Consistency: emilk appeared 370 times across 6 years (average 62 times/year)
- 2021 Peak: PySimpleGUI set record with 120 appearances in a single year
- Developer Longevity: sindresorhus maintained relevance from 2015-2021 (7 years)
- Organization Decline: Big tech companies dropped from top spots after 2019
- Ecosystem Impact: Most top developers maintain influential open-source libraries
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