I've been playing Kenta Cho's games since forever. I've sunk countless hours into Noiz2sa, rRootage, Parsec47 and Tumiki Fighters. His games are usually very minimal, creative and stylish with a nice techno soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k2yhmvdSkU
He is the reason I spent several years writing shmups.
He is one of the first devs I knew about that switched from C++ to D.