Top Developers in San Francisco
Ranked open-source contributors in San Francisco, US.
Developers
36,063
Avg Followers
77
Tastemakers
1,187
Top 500 Developers in San Francisco
Addy Osmani
@addyosmani
Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Ben Awad
@benawad
Voidpet cofounder • youtuber
Guido van Rossum
@gvanrossum
Tom Preston-Werner
@mojombo
Chip Huyen
@chiphuyen
AI x stuff
Mark Otto
@mdo
Designer, developer, and advisor. Building Pierre. Creator of Bootstrap (@twbs). Previously @github and @twitter. Huge nerd.
Mu Li
@mli
Mike Bostock
@mbostock
Building a better computational medium. Co-founder @observablehq. Creator @d3. Former @nytgraphics. Pronounced BOSS-tock.
Theo Browne
@t3dotgg
I'm just here for the vibes, man
Jake Vanderplas
@jakevdp
Python ML & Data Science
About This Ranking
This page tracks 36,063 indexed developers in San Francisco. Rankings prioritize measurable open-source contribution activity and sustained influence on public repositories.
The segment currently averages 77 followers and includes 1,187 developers identified as tastemakers based on early trend discovery signals.
Methodology note: location rankings use the same CodeRank model as global leaderboards while applying geographic filters. Learn how scoring is calculated in the methodology overview.
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Last updated: 10/22/2026, 6:39:22 AM UTC