I agree. I have worked with a lot of programmers in the past and they are usually... well... "large" or suffer from some stress like condition such as chain smoking, muttering or severe nervous eye tic. That picture looks wayyy too ordinary of a person. Probably the doughnut guy that delivers to Stardock.
Besides I think it's safe to say "Brad" or Avatar Frogboy is a bot anyway. It just autoscans the forum looking for instances of it's name and then churns out some random response... a clever bot to be sure... well written and executed like the Drengin, Torians and other AIs written for the game.
My bet is that the real programmers are savage drooling Morloc-ian creatures chained to desks & laptops in tight little cubicles - like those poor cute puppies in the cages at the pet shops. They probably just really want to be loved... and maybe given the occasional Chocolate bar or mini poster of "Seven-of-Nine" for their cells.
Sad that they are only allowed to communicate to us through that clever piece of coding called "Brad" *sigh*