It's true -- the best often languish in unrecognized obscurity -- FAANGs deliberately keep their most productive/crucial engineers secret -- carefully ensuring

It's true -- the best often languish in unrecognized obscurity -- FAANGs deliberately keep their most productive/crucial engineers secret -- carefully ensuring they're never named in blog posts or that marquee products don't have their engineering processes presented in an overly-transparent way. Some might transition into experts in the Art of Engineering or computer science -- as vonseei suggests below -- but I suggest most are squandered keeping tsunamis of corporate-engineered mediocrity under control.