Shay Banon - Founder of Elastic Search. He's been in the Open Source space for years building frameworks like Compass which influenced Red Hat to build Hibernat

Shay Banon - Founder of Elastic Search. He's been in the Open Source space for years building frameworks like Compass which influenced Red Hat to build Hibernate Search. He's done other work as well. Ross Mason - Founder of Mule Soft. He built Mule which is Open Source and helped many companies better integrate services. Joe Walnes - Joe is a beast. He's contributed and created many Open Source projects. websocketd, smoothie, xstream, webbit, and many more. Rick Hightower - A very smart guy who use to blog about technology that helped many many people. He also created Boon a JSON parser, qbit, and many other frameworks. Because of all of his hard work, he was also made a Java Champion. I could name so many more folks. Honestly, it's amazing not more people are acknowledged for their efforts.