Who would be a programming God if they were alive today?

Clearly a titan of engineering and innovation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel

Probably John von Neumann: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

Von Neumann. He was so higher in intelligence than everyone else that ever meet him that it was scary to them. He was not more intelligent, he was leagues ahead. I think the only person right now on this planet to get close to that kind of intelligence so high it feels alien when you meet it is Edward Witten.

Alan Turing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

Probably Napoleon and Julius Caesar based on the number of blog posts attributing modern day virtues to historical figures.

> Who would be a programming God

Are you twelve?