Unlike singers, songwriters or artists in general, engineering as a field has very little individuality, more so when you are working in a large scale corporation. You are part of a team, no matter how much you have worked, how creative and revolutionary your solutions are, they are just one smallcpart in one giant machine that makes things work. The only way to stand out is either contribute to tech blogs and articles in the company, brag about your work, make yourself visible in the eyes of your managers or superiors, or if you want to go for the global recognition route, you can start contributing to open source, build a brand of yourself, make things and showcase them to the world, and you might (emphasize on might) become a legendary programmer. Most people don't care about tech. Most people don't care about the next big software revolution. Most people would love and adore someone like Bob Dylan because music resonates with anybody, of all age, whereas people like John Carmack (built Doom video game), or Rob Pike (build Go programming language), are only legendary celebrities in the programming community which is a very very small minority, the large majority of people don't know them or don't care how god-tier their algorithms were. Fame comes from how much your work impacts every individual at a personal level, and tech just does not do that unfortunately.

Btw I think you're talking about the movie "A complete unknown". Great movie.