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I can name two: Raymond Chen and Mark Russinovich ! I don't know if Mark is still up-to-date into the latest Windows internals now that he is the CTO of Azure but Mr Chen sure is.


I was thinking Linus for Linux, but in spite of how talented these people are, it's still hard to imagine them having a detailed grasp of the entire codebase at this point.


Linus would definitely defer to lieutenants when it comes to understanding the specifics of code in specialized parts of the kernel.

Even these experts would probably want to consult with others instead of trying to just grow what's going on on their own.




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