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Most active GitHub users (by contributions). http://twitter.com/paulmillr

Most active GitHub users (git.io/top)

The count of contributions (summary of Pull Requests, opened issues and commits) to public repos at GitHub.com from Sat, 04 Oct 2014 19:10:54 GMT till Sun, 04 Oct 2015 19:10:54 GMT.

Only first 1000 GitHub users according to the count of followers are taken. This is because of limitations of GitHub search. Sorting algo in pseudocode:

githubUsers
  .filter((user) -> user.followers > 474)
  .sortBy('contributions')
  .slice(0, 256)

Made with data mining of GitHub.com (raw data, script) by @paulmillr with contribs of @lifesinger. Updated once per week.

# User Contribs Language Location
#1 Ocramius (Marco Pivetta) 19929 PHP Frankfurt
#2 taylorotwell (Taylor Otwell) 11958 Arkansas
#3 GrahamCampbell (Graham Campbell) 10900 PHP and HTML The United Kingdom
#4 brianchandotcom (Brian Chan) 10461 JavaScript Los Angeles, CA
#5 michalbe (Michał Budzyński) 9711 JavaScript Warsaw, Poland
#6 fabpot (Fabien Potencier) 8464 PHP Paris, France
#7 bevacqua (Nicolas Bevacqua) 7527 JavaScript https://twitter.com/nzgb
#8 kevinsawicki (Kevin Sawicki) 6543 JavaScript Redwood City, CA
#9 ornicar (Thibault Duplessis) 6356 PHP France
#10 sebmck (Sebastian McKenzie) 6234 JavaScript London
#11 rkh (Konstantin Haase) 6090 Ruby Berlin
#12 KrauseFx (Felix Krause) 5890 Ruby
#13 mrmrs (Adam Morse) 5829 CSS Hong Kong
#14 hadley (Hadley Wickham) 5710 R Houston, TX
#15 springmeyer (Dane Springmeyer) 5585 C++ Winthrop, WA
#16 c9s (Yo-An Lin) 5509 PHP Taipei, Taiwan
#17 mattdesl (Matt DesLauriers) 5464 JavaScript Toronto
#18 robrix (Rob Rix) 5423 Objective-C London, Ontario
#19 stefanpenner (Stefan Penner) 5281 JavaScript San Jose, CA
#20 feross (Feross Aboukhadijeh) 5180 JavaScript Mountain View, CA
#21 rstacruz (Rico Sta. Cruz) 4774 JavaScript Manila, Philippines
#22 michaelklishin (Michael Klishin) 4726 Ruby
#23 dcramer (David Cramer) 4657 Python San Francisco, CA
#24 ebidel (Eric Bidelman) 4625 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#25 jgm (John MacFarlane) 4455 Haskell Berkeley, CA
#26 phodal (Fengda Huang) 4453 JavaScript Xiamen China
#27 tmcw (Tom MacWright) 4356 JavaScript Washington, DC
#28 cvrebert (Chris Rebert) 4347 Shell SF Bay Area, California, USA
#29 Raynos (Jake Verbaten) 4325 JavaScript San Francisco
#30 mikermcneil (Mike McNeil) 4293 JavaScript Austin, TX
#31 jdalton (John-David Dalton) 4226 JavaScript http://twitter.com/jdalton
#32 mitchellh (Mitchell Hashimoto) 4196 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#33 josevalim (José Valim) 4039 Elixir Kraków, Poland
#34 JedWatson (Jed Watson) 4001 JavaScript Sydney
#35 markstory (Mark Story) 3976 PHP Toronto, Ontario
#36 gorhill (Raymond Hill) 3968 JavaScript Canada / Québec
#37 steveklabnik (Steve Klabnik) 3942 Rust Brooklyn
#38 zcbenz (Cheng Zhao) 3932 JavaScript Beijing
#39 addyosmani (Addy Osmani) 3909 JavaScript London, England
#40 gaearon (Dan Abramov) 3844 JavaScript St. Pete
#41 mafintosh (Mathias Buus) 3777 JavaScript Copenhagen, Denmark
#42 ai (Andrey Sitnik) 3720 Ruby Saint Petersburg, Russia
#43 SamyPesse (Samy Pessé) 3718 JavaScript Lyon, France / Mountain View, CA
#44 ChenYilong (微博@iOS程序犭袁) 3677 Objective-C Beijing China.
#45 kevva (Kevin Mårtensson) 3665 JavaScript Sweden
#46 substack (James Halliday) 3659 JavaScript Oakland, California, USA
#47 jamesward (James Ward) 3575 JavaScript Crested Butte, CO, USA
#48 jspahrsummers (Justin Spahr-Summers) 3431 Shell London, United Kingdom
#49 josegonzalez (Jose Diaz-Gonzalez) 3391 PHP New York, NY
#50 orta (Orta) 3388 Ruby Manchester / NYC
#51 benbalter (Ben Balter) 3364 Ruby Washington, DC
#52 ddollar (David Dollar) 3349 Ruby Atlanta, GA
#53 pippinsplugins (Pippin Williamson) 3345 PHP Hutchinson, KS
#54 JakeWharton (Jake Wharton) 3232 Java Pittsburgh, PA
#55 yihui (Yihui Xie) 3225 R Omaha, NE
#56 ericholscher (Eric Holscher) 3212 Python Portland, Or
#57 ekmett (Edward Kmett) 3130 Haskell Cambridge, MA
#58 yiminghe (yiminghe) 3113 JavaScript China
#59 evancz (Evan Czaplicki) 3097 Elm
#60 3rd-Eden (Arnout Kazemier) 3036 JavaScript Drachten, the Netherlands
#61 nathansobo (Nathan Sobo) 3029 CSS Boulder, CO
#62 webmozart (Bernhard Schussek) 2979 PHP Vienna, Austria
#63 mcollina (Matteo Collina) 2970 JavaScript In the clouds above Italy
#64 sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober) 2966 Ruby
#65 frsyuki (Sadayuki Furuhashi) 2941 Ruby Mountain View, CA
#66 alex (Alex Gaynor) 2934 Python Washington D.C.
#67 kartik-v (Kartik Visweswaran) 2929 PHP
#68 swannodette (David Nolen) 2927 Clojure New York
#69 dominictarr (Dominic Tarr) 2912 JavaScript New Zealand
#70 kylef (Kyle Fuller) 2908 Ruby London, England
#71 maxogden (=^._.^=) 2880 JavaScript
#72 leafo (leaf) 2800 MoonScript San Francisco
#73 r7kamura (Ryo Nakamura) 2789 Ruby Tokyo, Japan
#74 creationix (Tim Caswell) 2788 JavaScript Red Lick, TX, USA
#75 EisenbergEffect (Rob Eisenberg) 2724 JavaScript Tallahassee, FL
#76 afollestad (Aidan Follestad) 2700 Java St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
#77 indutny (Fedor Indutny) 2689 JavaScript Russia
#78 josh (Joshua Peek) 2687 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#79 ashfurrow (Ash Furrow) 2638 Objective-C
#80 HugoGiraudel (Hugo Giraudel) 2624 CSS Berlin
#81 weaverryan (Ryan Weaver) 2605 PHP Nashville, TN
#82 rxin (Reynold Xin) 2576 Shell San Francisco
#83 jedisct1 (Frank Denis) 2560 C Paris, France
#84 kazuho (Kazuho Oku) 2538 Perl Tokyo
#85 kytrinyx (Katrina Owen) 2495 Ruby
#86 mgechev (Minko Gechev) 2477 JavaScript 127.0.0.1
#87 fsouza (Francisco Souza) 2456 Python Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
#88 happypeter (Peter Wang) 2453 CSS Qinhuangdao China
#89 soumith (Soumith Chintala) 2445 Lua New York, USA
#90 clowwindy (clowwindy) 2444 C
#91 zenorocha (Zeno Rocha) 2430 JavaScript Los Angeles, CA
#92 rdegges (Randall Degges) 2428 Python Bay Area
#93 rafaelfranca (Rafael Mendonça França) 2392 Ruby São Paulo, Brazil
#94 drnic (Dr Nic Williams) 2392 Ruby Palo Alto, CA, USA
#95 gdi2290 (PatrickJS) 2348 JavaScript San Francisco, California
#96 staltz (André Staltz) 2308 JavaScript Helsinki, Finland
#97 purcell (Steve Purcell) 2307 Emacs Lisp Wellington, New Zealand
#98 madskristensen (Mads Kristensen) 2298 C# Seattle
#99 rwaldron (Rick Waldron) 2285 JavaScript Brooklyn, NY
#100 chrisdone (Chris Done) 2260 Haskell Italy
#101 jfrazelle (Jess Frazelle) 2256 Go PID 1
#102 leebyron (Lee Byron) 2233 JavaScript San Francisco
#103 derickr (Derick Rethans) 2221 PHP London, England
#104 mikepenz (Mike Penz) 2191 Java Linz, Austria
#105 chjj (Christopher Jeffrey (JJ)) 2178 JavaScript San Francisco
#106 parkr (Parker Moore) 2178 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#107 kohsuke (Kohsuke Kawaguchi) 2176 Java San Jose, California
#108 armon (Armon Dadgar) 2175 Go San Francisco, CA
#109 RubyLouvre (司徒正美) 2154 JavaScript China
#110 mikolalysenko (Mikola Lysenko) 2151 JavaScript Madison, WI
#111 torvalds (Linus Torvalds) 2143 Makefile Portland, OR
#112 arunoda (Arunoda Susiripala) 2134 JavaScript Colombo, Sri Lanka
#113 bbatsov (Bozhidar Batsov) 2122 Emacs Lisp Sofia, Bulgaria
#114 stof (Christophe Coevoet) 2112 PHP Paris
#115 matthewmccullough (Matthew J. McCullough) 2097 Java Olympia, WA, USA
#116 yyx990803 (Evan You) 2084 JavaScript New Jersey / China
#117 Unknwon (无闻) 2083 Go Boston, MA
#118 willdurand (William Durand) 2076 PHP France
#119 tenderlove (Aaron Patterson) 2071 Ruby Seattle
#120 tqchen (Tianqi Chen) 2062 C++
#121 kana (Kana Natsuno) 2062 VimL Tokyo, Japan
#122 nzakas (Nicholas C. Zakas) 2047 JavaScript Mountain View, CA
#123 graydon (Graydon Hoare) 2037 Shell Vancouver, BC
#124 zilongshanren (子龙山人) 2025 C Xiamen, Fujian, China
#125 mattn (mattn) 2019 Go Osaka, Japan
#126 remy (Remy Sharp) 2011 JavaScript Brighton, UK
#127 ayende (Ayende Rahien) 1999 C# Israel
#128 lihaoyi (Li Haoyi) 1998 Scala
#129 chneukirchen (Christian Neukirchen) 1953 Shell Munich, Germany
#130 johnpapa (John Papa) 1944 JavaScript Orlando, FL
#131 samdark (Alexander Makarov) 1943 PHP Russia
#132 domenic (Domenic Denicola) 1929 JavaScript New York, NY
#133 paulcbetts (Paul Betts) 1926 C# San Francisco
#134 bergie (Henri Bergius) 1895 JavaScript Berlin, Germany
#135 indirect (André Arko) 1891 Ruby San Francisco
#136 schacon (Scott Chacon) 1881 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#137 davecheney (Dave Cheney) 1879 Go Sydney, Australia
#138 kripken (Alon Zakai) 1869 JavaScript
#139 appleboy (Bo-Yi Wu) 1851 JavaScript Taiwan Hsinchu
#140 jlord (Jessica Lord) 1832 JavaScript Portland, Ore
#141 alloy (Eloy Durán) 1801 Ruby Amsterdam, the Netherlands
#142 vladikoff (Vlad Filippov) 1789 JavaScript North America
#143 hueniverse (Eran Hammer) 1786 JavaScript Los Gatos, CA
#144 STRd6 (Daniel X Moore) 1785 CoffeeScript Fillmore, CA
#145 SamSaffron (Sam) 1784 Ruby Sydney, Australia
#146 luin (Zihua Li) 1772 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#147 tokuhirom (Tokuhiro Matsuno) 1770 Perl Tokyo, Japan
#148 michael (Michael Aufreiter) 1767 JavaScript Linz, Austria
#149 TooTallNate (Nathan Rajlich) 1758 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#150 PaulKinlan (Paul Kinlan) 1756 JavaScript Liverpool, London, Mountain View (CA)
#151 kriskowal (Kris Kowal) 1743 JavaScript San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
#152 karan (Karan Goel) 1742 Python Seattle
#153 numbbbbb (梁杰) 1740 Python Qihoo 360, Beijing, China
#154 passy (Pascal Hartig) 1738 JavaScript London, UK
#155 marijnh (Marijn Haverbeke) 1714 JavaScript Berlin
#156 audreyt (唐鳳) 1707 Perl Taipei, Taiwan
#157 aFarkas (Alexander Farkas) 1701 JavaScript Berlin
#158 rvagg (Rod Vagg) 1689 JavaScript South Coast NSW, Australia
#159 apotonick (Nick Sutterer) 1687 Ruby Sydney, Australia
#160 svenfuchs (Sven Fuchs) 1679 Ruby Germany/Berlin
#161 mjackson (Michael Jackson) 1673 JavaScript California
#162 arturoc (arturo) 1664 C++
#163 maryrosecook (Mary Rose Cook) 1651 JavaScript New York, NY
#164 mrdoob (Mr.doob) 1643 JavaScript London, England
#165 jonathanong (jongleberry) 1637 JavaScript Los Angeles, CA
#166 mbostock (Mike Bostock) 1634 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#167 prakhar1989 (Prakhar Srivastav) 1631 JavaScript New York
#168 mourner (Vladimir Agafonkin) 1623 JavaScript Kiev, Ukraine
#169 balupton (Benjamin Lupton) 1619 JavaScript Australia
#170 headius (Charles Oliver Nutter) 1604 Ruby
#171 jessesquires (Jesse Squires) 1588 Objective-C San Francisco, CA
#172 swankjesse (Jesse Wilson) 1562 Java Waterloo, Canada
#173 sahat (Sahat Yalkabov) 1558 JavaScript Los Angeles, CA
#174 nex3 (Natalie Weizenbaum) 1558 Ruby Seattle
#175 simurai (simurai) 1523 CSS Sapporo, Japan
#176 zpao (Paul O’Shannessy) 1502 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#177 tomchristie (Tom Christie) 1497 Python Brighton, UK
#178 fzaninotto (Francois Zaninotto) 1495 JavaScript Nancy, France
#179 bdarnell (Ben Darnell) 1476 Python
#180 amueller (Andreas Mueller) 1467 Python NYC
#181 shiffman (Daniel Shiffman) 1464 Processing New York, NY
#182 darwin (Antonin Hildebrand) 1458 JavaScript
#183 davidfowl (David Fowler) 1448 C# Bellevue, WA
#184 junegunn (Junegunn Choi) 1447 Ruby Seoul
#185 gitster (Junio C Hamano) 1446 CSS Mountain View, CA
#186 mathiasbynens (Mathias Bynens) 1441 JavaScript Belgium
#187 olivergierke (Oliver Gierke) 1423 Java Dresden, Germany
#188 matyhtf (Tianfeng) 1422 PHP China
#189 mdo (Mark Otto) 1414 CSS San Francisco, CA
#190 desandro (David DeSandro) 1404 JavaScript Alexandria, VA
#191 photonstorm (Richard Davey) 1401 JavaScript UK
#192 sebastianbergmann (Sebastian Bergmann) 1400 PHP Siegburg, Germany
#193 matthewmueller (Matthew Mueller) 1398 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#194 bradfitz (Brad Fitzpatrick) 1391 Go San Francisco, CA
#195 weavejester (James Reeves) 1390 Clojure London, UK
#196 fengmk2 (fengmk2) 1384 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#197 stephenplusplus (Stephen Sawchuk) 1364 JavaScript Michigan
#198 aslakhellesoy (Aslak Hellesøy) 1364 Ruby London, UK
#199 arun-gupta (Arun Gupta) 1362 Shell San Jose, CA
#200 alanhamlett (Alan Hamlett) 1361 JavaScript San Francisco
#201 STRML (Samuel Reed) 1357 JavaScript Milwaukee, WI
#202 imathis (Brandon Mathis) 1353 Ruby Birmingham, AL
#203 tbranyen (Tim Branyen) 1351 JavaScript Shapleigh, ME
#204 isaacs (isaacs) 1349 JavaScript Oakland CA
#205 Shougo (Shougo) 1347 VimL Vim
#206 ibdknox (Chris Granger) 1344 Clojure
#207 pedrovgs (Pedro Vicente Gómez Sánchez) 1343 Java Madrid
#208 kelseyhightower (Kelsey Hightower) 1338 Go Portland, OR
#209 jakevdp (Jake Vanderplas) 1320 Python Seattle WA
#210 munificent (Bob Nystrom) 1316 Dart Seattle, WA
#211 andrew (Andrew Nesbitt) 1313 JavaScript Somerset, UK
#212 contra (contra) 1304 JavaScript earth
#213 mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher) 1304 Python Austria / United Kingdom
#214 wbond (Will Bond) 1303 Python Newbury, MA
#215 ahmetalpbalkan (Ahmet Alp Balkan) 1299 Go Seattle, WA, USA
#216 jezdez (Jannis Leidel) 1292 Python Berlin, Europe
#217 hughsk (Hugh Kennedy) 1281 JavaScript Sydney, AU
#218 CharlinFeng (冯成林) 1257 Objective-C 西部大开发群:473185026
#219 fatih (Fatih Arslan) 1255 Go Ankara, Turkey
#220 DataTables (Allan Jardine) 1251 JavaScript Scotland
#221 rsc (Russ Cox) 1248 Go Cambridge, MA
#222 timoxley (Tim Oxley) 1234 JavaScript Brisbane, AU ⇄ Singapore
#223 odersky 1231 Scala
#224 shama (Kyle Robinson Young) 1227 JavaScript Portland, OR
#225 pydanny (Daniel Greenfeld) 1226 Python Inland Empire, CA
#226 technoweenie (risk danger olson) 1218 Ruby Louisville, CO
#227 muan (Mu-An Chiou) 1212 JavaScript Taipei, Taiwan
#228 jordansissel (Jordan Sissel) 1209 Ruby Silicon Valley
#229 sorah (sorah Shota Fukumori) 1209 Ruby Tokyo, Japan
#230 freddix (Fryderyk Dziarmagowski) 1203 Diff
#231 sokra (Tobias Koppers) 1194 JavaScript Germany
#232 ianb (Ian Bicking) 1192 JavaScript Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
#233 andreamazz (Andrea Mazzini) 1184 Ruby Italy
#234 antirez (Salvatore Sanfilippo) 1184 C Campobello di Licata, Sicily, Italy
#235 soyjavi (Javi Jiménez) 1176 CoffeeScript Bilbao ✈︎ Chiang Mai ✈︎ London
#236 Seldaek (Jordi Boggiano) 1169 PHP Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
#237 akrabat (Rob Allen) 1162 PHP Worcester, UK
#238 aaronpk (Aaron Parecki) 1154 PHP Portland, OR
#239 mnot (Mark Nottingham) 1148 Python Melbourne, Australia
#240 michaelliao (Michael Liao) 1144 Python Beijing, China
#241 bboyfeiyu (Mr.Simple) 1142 Java china
#242 sole (sole) 1139 JavaScript London
#243 lepture (Hsiaoming Yang) 1136 Python Everywhere, China
#244 robdodson (Rob Dodson) 1133 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#245 soimort (Mort Yao) 1132 Shell Copenhagen, Denmark
#246 mgcrea (Olivier Louvignes) 1121 JavaScript Paris, France
#247 tommy351 (Tommy Chen) 1118 JavaScript Taipei
#248 barryvdh (Barry vd. Heuvel) 1112 PHP Eindhoven, the Netherlands
#249 jiyinyiyong (题叶) 1111 CoffeeScript Shanghai, China
#250 justintadlock (Justin Tadlock) 1110 PHP Alabama
#251 HenrikJoreteg (Henrik Joreteg) 1090 JavaScript West Richland, WA
#252 Trinea (Trinea) 1087 Java HangZhou, China
#253 caitp (⭐caitp⭐) 1086 JavaScript Toronto, Canada
#254 philipwalton (Philip Walton) 1085 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#255 laruence (Xinchen Hui) 1076 PHP Beijing, China
#256 spicyj (Ben Alpert) 1074 JavaScript Mountain View, CA

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