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Brian Behlendorf

Executive, director, and software programmer

PersonAge 53humanQ93016

Born: March 30, 1973
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: engineer
, computer scientist
Positions held: board member(since 2013)
Education: University of California, Berkeley
, La Cañada High School
Employer: World Economic Forum

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Brian Behlendorf is an American technologist, executive, computer programmer and leading figure in the open-source software movement. He was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Group, which later became the Apache Software Foundation. Behlendorf served as president of the foundation for three years. He has served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003, Benetech since 2009, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2013. Behlendorf served as the General Manager of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) from 2021 to 2023 and is currently the Chief Technology Officer of the OpenSSF.

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RRevolution OS2001 · 2001 documentary film

Founded

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AApache Software Foundation1999 · American nonprofit open-source software community

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Sex or gender: male
Website: brian.behlendorf.com
Given name: Brian
Family name: Behlendorf
Social media followers: 12,395(February 3, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 15398764
12,400(March 1, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 15398764
11,802(January 6, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 15398764
11,682(April 19, 2020) x (twitter) numeric user id: 15398764
Awards: ACM Software System Award(1999) together with: Roy Fielding, Rob Hartill · for work: Apache HTTP Server · award rationale: Apache is a hugely popular Webserver that is freeware and has been adopted by millions of sites. Because its source code was available, this high quality server has allowed research on Web service to develop and gain credibility in the commercial world.
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