So you’ve just registered on Github because a friend or colleague told you it’s a great place to learn from other people’s code and play farmville? Good for you! Now go and follow these awesome developers! You’ll learn tons by looking at their theme and plugin code.

Joe Hoyle from HumanMade

Justin Tadlock, maker of Hybrid Core

Tom McFarlin, WP Tuts author and Hello Dolly Podcast

Gary Jones Genesis contributor

Bill Erickson Genesis contributor

Jared Atchinson Genesis contributor

Andrew Norcross author of the popular metaboxes class

Frank Bültge author of popular plugins like Adminimize

Deckerweb author of many Genesis plugins

Jeffrey Way Nettuts author

Chris Coyier CSS tricks

Pippin Williamson  author of Easy Digital Downloads

Andrew Nacin WordPress core developer

Mark Jaquith WordPress core developer

Alex King Crowd Favorite

Thomas Griffin Expert Genesis developer

Konstantin Kovshenin Automattic

Michael Fields theme wrangler at Automattic

Brian Gardner author of the Genesis theme

Brian Richards author the Startbox theme (suggested by Brad Thomas)

WebDevStudios great team of WordPress developers, thanks Ozh

and feel free to follow me : Paul de Wouters

I’ll expand the list based on your suggestion, so if you’re following some great WordPress developers on Github let me know in the comments!