The Luvo 100

Australia & New Zealand

The Top 100 People Shaping Software Quality Across Australia & New Zealand

Meet the people behind the technology that works.

The inaugural rankings are here

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Current ranking

9 September 2026

Next rankings

1 December 2026

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Community voting determines 50% of the next Luvo 100 rankings — your vote counts.

Australia & New Zealand rankings launch with the seasons: 1 December (Summer), 1 March (Autumn), 1 June (Winter) and 1 September (Spring).

The Top 10

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1
Michael Curran
Founder and NVDA lead developer, NV Access, Australia
2
Gerwin Klein
Chief Scientist, Proofcraft, Australia
3
Gernot Heiser
Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney, Australia
4
James Teh
Accessibility technical lead, Mozilla, Australia
5
Brendan Gregg
Performance engineer, OpenAI, Australia
6
Andrew Tridgell
Open-source developer, rsync / ArduPilot / MAVProxy projects, Australia
7
Damien Miller
OpenSSH developer, OpenSSH project, Australia
8
Tim Hudson
President; OpenSSL contributor, OpenSSL Corporation, Australia
9
David Hook
Bouncy Castle co-founder; VP Software Engineering, Crypto Workshop, Australia
10
Thomas Munro
PostgreSQL developer and committer, Microsoft, New Zealand

Featured people

No. 1

Michael Curran

Founder and NVDA lead developer, NV Access

Curran built working accessibility infrastructure with international use, removing a substantial cost barrier to computer access. NVDA’s continuing development makes accessibility a maintained capability across applications, rather than an optional accommodation for individual products.

No. 2

Gerwin Klein

Chief Scientist, Proofcraft

Klein helped demonstrate that a real operating-system kernel could be checked against a formal specification. His continuing proof-engineering work strengthens the foundations on which other software depends, addressing classes of implementation error that testing alone cannot rule out.

No. 3

Gernot Heiser

Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney

Heiser helped turn formally verified operating systems into an engineering programme with practical applications. His contribution combines architectural research and sustained technical leadership; the seL4 implementation and proofs remain the collective achievement of named collaborators.