https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&... Is this?

Or perhaps a Google Scholar means jack shit? Since when is that the official measure of an expert.

What has Victor Taelin made which is any way comparable to Linus Torvalds? I'm not saying it's impossible to be a well-known expert with a shitty google scholar. I'm just not seeing any evidence at all in Taelin's case. He doesn't even have a wikipedia page!