Brian Behlendorf

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Brian Behlendorf
Apache HTTP server
TitleChief Technology Officer
Websitebrian.behlendorf.com

Brian Behlendorf (born March 30, 1973) is an American

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,[1] Benetech since 2009,[2] and the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2013.[3] Behlendorf served as the General Manager of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) from 2021-2023 and is currently the Chief Technology Officer of the OpenSSF.[4][5]

Career

Behlendorf, raised in Southern California, became interested in the development of the Internet while he was a student at the

electronic mailing list and online music resource, SFRaves, which a friend persuaded him to start in 1992.[6] This would soon develop into the Hyperreal.org website, an online resource devoted to electronic music and related subcultures.[7]

In 1993, Behlendorf, Jonathan Nelson, Matthew Nelson and Cliff Skolnick co-founded

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) could not handle the user registration system that the company required. So, Behlendorf patched
the open-source code to support HotWired's requirements.

It turned out that Behlendorf wasn't the only one busy patching the NCSA code at the time, so he and Skolnick put together an electronic mailing list to coordinate the work of the other programmers. By the end of February 1995, eight core contributors to the project started Apache as a

Apache Software Foundation
. Behlendorf served as president of the Foundation for three years.

Behlendorf was the

Subversion, before it became a project of the Apache Software Foundation. He continues to be involved with electronic music community events such as Chillits
, and speaks often at open-source conferences worldwide.

In 2003, he was named to the

TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[12]

Behlendorf has served on the board of the

blockchain technology.[13]

Behlendorf became the General Manager of the Open Source Security Foundation in October 2021. The appointment was shared publicly at KubeCon, along with the announcement of $10m in investments to secure open source supply chains.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "About the Mozilla Foundation".
    Mozilla organization
    . Retrieved 2009-09-17.
  2. ^ a b "Who We Are". Benetech. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
  3. ^ a b "EFF Welcomes New Member of Board of Directors: Brian Behlendorf". EFF. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
  4. ^ a b "Open Source Security Foundation Raises $10 Million in New Commitments to Secure Software Supply Chains". Linux Foundation Press Release. 2021-10-13. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  5. ^ danwillis (2023-05-12). "Cross-industry organisation OpenSSF snaps up $5m". FinTech Global. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
  6. ^ "SFRaves history". SFRaves. Retrieved 2009-09-17.
  7. ^ "Welcome to Hyperreal". Hyperreal.org. Retrieved 2009-09-17.
  8. ^ "Proceedings of Wikimania 2007". Wikimania. 2007. Retrieved 2009-09-17.
  9. ^ "Reinventors - Brian Behlendorf". reinventors.net. Archived from the original on September 8, 2015. Retrieved September 10, 2015.
  10. ^ "EFF Welcomes New Member of Board of Directors: Brian Behlendorf". Electronic Frontier Foundation. 15 February 2013. Retrieved September 10, 2015.
  11. ^ "Brian Behlendorf (executive bio)". CollabNet. Archived from the original on 2005-12-14. Retrieved 2015-02-22.
  12. Technology Review
    . 2003. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
  13. ^ "Founder of the Apache Software Foundation Joins Linux Foundation to Lead Hyperledger Project". Archived from the original on 2016-06-10.

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