David Heinemeier Hansson | Ruby on Rails

image credit: James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media, Inc./Wikimedia Commons David Heinemeier Hansson was born on October 15, 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the creator of Ruby on Rails, an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language. Hansson is also a partner at 37signals. He was recognized in 2005 by Google and O'Reilly with the Hacker of the Year award for his creation of Ruby on Rails.

Jason Fried | 37signals

image credit: Jemima G/Flickr Jason Fried founded 37signals, a web application company, with co-founders Carlos Segura, and Ernest Kim. Basecamp, a web-based project-management tool, was the first application for 37signals which was followed by Ta-Da list, Backpack, Writeboard, Campfire and Highrise.