Most active GitHub users in United States

This is a list of most active GitHub users in United States over the past year. Other countries/regions can be found here. This list was generated at 2025-08-27 18:20:36 +0000 and machine-readable JSON is available for:

• rank-only with categories

This list is generated with this piece of code. The logic is as follows (in pseudocode):

githubUsers.sort(_.followers)
           .filter(_.location == 'United States') 
           .take(1000)
           .sort(_.contributions)
           .take(256)

This list contains all public contributions for each user. There are 1702808 total users in the region and you need at least 1385 followers to be on this list.

Badges are also available, which you can include on your profile pages. Simply include the following markdown for users:

[![committers.top badge](https://user-badge.committers.top/united_states_public/USERNAME.svg)](https://user-badge.committers.top/united_states_public/USERNAME)

[![committers.top badge](https://org-badge.committers.top/united_states_public/ORGNAME.svg)](https://org-badge.committers.top/united_states_public/ORGNAME)

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Rank	User	Contribs	Picture
1.	seanpm2001 (Sean P. Myrick V19.1.7.2)	71675
2.	rgbkrk (Kyle Kelley)	47701
3.	zhaoolee (zhaoolee)	32974
4.	RamiKrispin (Rami Krispin)	30811
5.	brianchandotcom (Brian Chan)	25428
6.	Charles-Chrismann (Charles Chrismann)	22148
7.	bdraco (J. Nick Koston)	15073
8.	jverkoey (Jeff Verkoeyen)	13080
9.	tianon (Tianon Gravi)	12327
10.	ChrisRackauckas (Christopher Rackauckas)	9565
11.	alesanchezr (Alejandro Sanchez)	8990
12.	facebook-github-bot (Facebook Community Bot)	7673
13.	mxcl (Max Howell)	6163
14.	Tyriar (Daniel Imms)	5916
15.	JoshuaKGoldberg (Josh Goldberg ✨)	5787
16.	ankane (Andrew Kane)	5679
17.	mitchellh (Mitchell Hashimoto)	5473
18.	hadley (Hadley Wickham)	5226
19.	dtolnay (David Tolnay)	5018
20.	lucidrains (Phil Wang)	4888
21.	josh (Joshua Peek)	4492
22.	charliermarsh (Charlie Marsh)	4410
23.	kentcdodds (Kent C. Dodds)	4396
24.	lxRbckl (Alex)	4395
25.	jdx ()	4367
26.	holasoymalva (Leon Martin)	4363
27.	jackpot51 (Jeremy Soller)	4309
28.	Innei (Innei)	4265
29.	pirate (Nick Sweeting)	4072
30.	glenn-jocher (Glenn Jocher)	4059
31.	AlexNesvit (Alex NESVIT)	4027
32.	ljharb (Jordan Harband)	3972
33.	lalalune (Shaw)	3944
34.	vkarpov15 (Valeri Karpov)	3803
35.	JakeWharton (Jake Wharton)	3795
36.	simonw (Simon Willison)	3780
37.	joelparkerhenderson (Joel Parker Henderson)	3738
38.	rwxrob (Rob Muhlestein)	3721
39.	ezyang (Edward Z. Yang)	3712
40.	SukkaW (Sukka)	3696
41.	giswqs (Qiusheng Wu)	3585
42.	bagder (Daniel Stenberg)	3296
43.	jasnell (James M Snell)	3153
44.	torvalds (Linus Torvalds)	3057
45.	pamelafox (Pamela Fox)	2994
46.	jeremyevans (Jeremy Evans)	2986
47.	ZacSweers (Zac Sweers)	2923
48.	schollz (Zack)	2908
49.	ericmjl (Eric Ma)	2873
50.	alex (Alex Gaynor)	2868
51.	valyala (Aliaksandr Valialkin)	2850
52.	jgamblin (Jerry Gamblin)	2824
53.	taylorotwell (Taylor Otwell)	2809
54.	Jarred-Sumner (Jarred Sumner)	2744
55.	zhyncs (Yineng Zhang)	2701
56.	nikomatsakis (Niko Matsakis)	2549
57.	rohitpaulk (Paul Kuruvilla)	2530
58.	geohot (George Hotz)	2482
59.	awni (Awni Hannun)	2477
60.	yonggekkk (甬哥侃侃侃ygkkk)	2455
61.	LeaVerou (Lea Verou)	2441
62.	zeux (Arseny Kapoulkine)	2431
63.	davidfowl (David Fowler)	2428
64.	curran (Curran Kelleher)	2428
65.	inducer (Andreas Klöckner)	2410
66.	mraible (Matt Raible)	2403
67.	koush (Koushik Dutta)	2390
68.	Lyne6666 (Lyne)	2357
69.	mattgodbolt (Matt Godbolt)	2265
70.	Manishearth (Manish Goregaokar)	2229
71.	eddelbuettel (Dirk Eddelbuettel)	2218
72.	jwiegley (John Wiegley)	2163
73.	bdougie (Brian Douglas)	2128
74.	tarcieri (Tony Arcieri)	2126
75.	felangel (Felix Angelov)	2112
76.	ijjk (JJ Kasper)	2063
77.	zachlatta (Zach Latta)	2058
78.	stephencelis (Stephen Celis)	1998
79.	vczh ()	1962
80.	keith (Keith Smiley)	1956
81.	EvanBacon (Evan Bacon)	1932
82.	arun-gupta (Arun Gupta)	1929
83.	himself65 (Alex Yang)	1913
84.	jlevy (Joshua Levy)	1905
85.	bahmutov (Gleb Bahmutov)	1899
86.	nedbat (Ned Batchelder)	1898
87.	umputun (Umputun)	1895
88.	cnlohr (cnlohr)	1855
89.	nzakas (Nicholas C. Zakas)	1852
90.	dcramer (David Cramer)	1848
91.	ChrisTitusTech (Chris Titus)	1829
92.	haacked (Phil Haack)	1812
93.	merrymercy (Lianmin Zheng)	1808
94.	andygrove (Andy Grove)	1794
95.	rtfeldman (Richard Feldman)	1770
96.	terrytangyuan (Yuan Tang)	1737
97.	zardus (Yan Shoshitaishvili)	1735
98.	abraham (Abraham Williams)	1730
99.	joshlong (Josh Long)	1720
100.	peterbe (Peter Bengtsson)	1691
101.	BurntSushi (Andrew Gallant)	1689
102.	tannerlinsley (Tanner Linsley)	1678
103.	andrewrk (Andrew Kelley)	1677
104.	emeryberger (Emery Berger)	1673
105.	kean (Alex Grebenyuk)	1658
106.	mmp (Matt Pharr)	1651
107.	PatrickAlphaC (Patrick Collins)	1647
108.	mtlynch (Michael Lynch)	1585
109.	ThioJoe ()	1530
110.	mattt (Mattt)	1530
111.	santosomar (Omar Santos)	1507
112.	jakevdp (Jake Vanderplas)	1505
113.	schneems (Richard Schneeman)	1491
114.	edemaine (Erik Demaine)	1489
115.	alysonla (Alyson La)	1450
116.	skyzh (Alex Chi Z.)	1422
117.	jxnl (Jason Liu)	1416
118.	hyperb1iss (Stefanie Jane)	1406
119.	pedronauck (Pedro Nauck)	1393
120.	angiejones (Angie Jones)	1388
121.	ice1000 (Tesla Zhang‮)	1387
122.	gitster (Junio C Hamano)	1371
123.	tomast1337 (Nicolas Vyčas Nery )	1365
124.	wagoodman (Alex Goodman)	1361
125.	VikParuchuri (Vik Paruchuri)	1347
126.	tshemsedinov (Timur Shemsedinov)	1338
127.	kevmoo (Kevin Moore)	1321
128.	tananaev (Anton Tananaev)	1319
129.	mbrandonw (Brandon Williams)	1307
130.	sebmarkbage (Sebastian Markbåge)	1307
131.	SteveMacenski (Steve Macenski)	1305
132.	jamesgpearce (James Pearce)	1296
133.	yihui (Yihui Xie)	1293
134.	brandonroberts (Brandon Roberts)	1278
135.	ericholscher (Eric Holscher)	1277
136.	GloriousEggroll (Thomas Crider)	1265
137.	thockin (Tim Hockin)	1264
138.	sebastienros (Sébastien Ros)	1260
139.	bradfitz (Brad Fitzpatrick)	1251
140.	gr2m (Gregor Martynus)	1244
141.	geerlingguy (Jeff Geerling)	1228
142.	kousen (Ken Kousen)	1202
143.	rmurphey (Rebecca Murphey)	1189
144.	KentBeck (Kent Beck)	1187
145.	devongovett (Devon Govett)	1183
146.	csev (Charles Severance)	1183
147.	j2kun (Jeremy Kun)	1176
148.	jgm (John MacFarlane)	1175
149.	estelle (Estelle Weyl)	1161
150.	ternaus (Vladimir Iglovikov)	1158
151.	virattt (Virat Singh)	1141
152.	nolanlawson (Nolan Lawson)	1141
153.	palkan (Vladimir Dementyev)	1138
154.	jonahwilliams (Jonah Williams)	1136
155.	mistercrunch (Maxime Beauchemin)	1134
156.	kennethreitz (Kenneth Reitz)	1126
157.	zhaochenyang20 (Chayenne)	1123
158.	hamelsmu (Hamel Husain)	1116
159.	drwpow (Drew Powers)	1104
160.	sethvargo (Seth Vargo)	1101
161.	juliasilge (Julia Silge)	1101
162.	ericniebler (Eric Niebler)	1091
163.	betomoedano (Beto)	1090
164.	mwaskom (Michael Waskom)	1083
165.	glaucia86 (Glaucia Lemos)	1082
166.	captainsafia (Safia Abdalla)	1067
167.	mine-cetinkaya-rundel (Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel)	1065
168.	Cyan4973 (Yann Collet)	1065
169.	itzg (Geoff Bourne)	1060
170.	mjackson (Michael Jackson)	1053
171.	benhalpern (Ben Halpern)	1049
172.	gboeing (Geoff Boeing)	1046
173.	rmosolgo (Robert Mosolgo)	1033
174.	idimetrix (Dmitry Selikhov)	1030
175.	nartc (Chau Tran)	1028
176.	davidism (David Lord)	1027
177.	tmcw (Tom MacWright)	1024
178.	holdenk (Holden Karau)	1016
179.	Roasbeef (Olaoluwa Osuntokun)	1014
180.	coryhouse (Cory House)	1004
181.	wu-sheng (吴晟 Wu Sheng)	1003
182.	shreyashankar (Shreya Shankar)	999
183.	hawkw (Eliza Weisman)	990
184.	DavidWells (David Wells)	981
185.	donmccurdy (Don McCurdy)	978
186.	gamemann (Christian Deacon)	972
187.	legomushroom (Oleg Solomko)	964
188.	inancgumus (İnanç Gümüş)	957
189.	codahale (Coda Hale)	955
190.	killme2008 (dennis zhuang)	953
191.	leerob (Lee Robinson)	946
192.	DHowett (Dustin L. Howett)	945
193.	colinhacks (Colin McDonnell)	941
194.	csharpfritz (Jeffrey T. Fritz)	937
195.	Trott (Rich Trott)	935
196.	nickjj (Nick Janetakis)	933
197.	rodydavis (Rody Davis)	928
198.	hanxiao (Han Xiao)	922
199.	colesbury (Sam Gross)	919
200.	richlander (Rich Lander)	902
201.	Marak ()	901
202.	buckyroberts (Bucky Roberts)	897
203.	jamesward (James Ward)	894
204.	julien-c (Julien Chaumond)	893
205.	percyliang (Percy Liang)	886
206.	zeke (Zeke Sikelianos)	878
207.	TooTallNate (Nathan Rajlich)	871
208.	jongalloway (Jon Galloway)	868
209.	ed-donner (Ed Donner)	856
210.	ardalis (Steve Smith)	853
211.	kentonv (Kenton Varda)	846
212.	lattner (Chris Lattner)	845
213.	jcheng5 (Joe Cheng)	840
214.	natemoo-re (Nate Moore)	837
215.	zachgoll (Zach Gollwitzer)	829
216.	stevekinney (Steve Kinney)	827
217.	ScriptedAlchemy (Zack Jackson)	814
218.	PaulKinlan (Paul Kinlan)	811
219.	aaronpk (Aaron Parecki)	801
220.	AllenDowney (Allen Downey)	795
221.	VictorTaelin (Victor Taelin)	794
222.	apparentlymart (Martin Atkins)	793
223.	mdancho84 (Matt Dancho)	789
224.	kbroman (Karl Broman)	786
225.	kriskowal (Kris Kowal)	785
226.	progrium (Jeff Lindsay)	782
227.	ekzhang (Eric Zhang)	781
228.	ramsey (Ben Ramsey)	780
229.	tenderlove (Aaron Patterson)	780
230.	shiffman (Daniel Shiffman)	777
231.	eliben (Eli Bendersky)	773
232.	craigsdennis (Craig Dennis)	766
233.	ehmatthes (Eric Matthes)	760
234.	beejjorgensen (Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall )	754
235.	DanWahlin (Dan Wahlin)	742
236.	davepl (David W Plummer)	740
237.	earlephilhower (Earle F. Philhower, III)	740
238.	cheshire137 (Sarah Vessels)	737
239.	DamianEdwards (Damian Edwards)	736
240.	sloria (Steven Loria)	736
241.	chrislusf (Chris Lu)	732
242.	rafalab (Rafael A Irizarry)	730
243.	RickStrahl (Rick Strahl)	725
244.	adonovan (Alan Donovan)	722
245.	khuyentran1401 (Khuyen Tran)	719
246.	frankmcsherry (Frank McSherry)	709
247.	ktbyers (Kirk Byers)	699
248.	jherr (Jack Herrington)	691
249.	excid3 (Chris Oliver)	691
250.	davidortinau (David Ortinau)	686
251.	mytechnotalent (Kevin Thomas)	685
252.	Eugeny (Eugene)	679
253.	lh3 (Heng Li)	674
254.	ttscoff (Brett Terpstra)	667
255.	neodigm (Scott C. Krause)	666
256.	steveklabnik (Steve Klabnik)	662

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