Brian Behlendorf
Executive, director, and software programmer · United States · On the map · Born 1973 · age 53
Brian Behlendorf is an American technologist, executive, computer programmer and leading figure in the open-source software movement.
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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.
