The phrase "original programmer" refers to the person who first created or developed a computer program. They are the one who came up with the idea, wrote the code, and designed the software from scratch. Full definition
Because there is no transmission of data across a network, the interface is constrained only by the skills of the original programmer. (fruitfly.org)
The original programmers behind Stanza had come up with a program to easily transfer books from iTunes to another part of my computer (link updated in May 2012 — also see here and here), and I sent the files to my Dropbox folder, which is WiFi - accessible from just about all all my machines and will store books for all e-reading programs. (librarycity.org)
For that to happen, Iizuka - san and (Yuji) Naka - san - the original programmer for Sonic - they both needed to be satisfied with what we did with that. (gonintendo.com)