Brian Behlendorf

Brian Behlendorf earns a special kind of respect from me. A Berkeley-trained American technologist, he was a primary developer of the Apache web server and a founding member of what became the Apache Software Foundation, helping put the internet's most-used server into the world as something everyone could share freely. The 1999 ACM Software System Award barely captures it. Leading the open-source movement means measuring success by how far you push the whole ecosystem forward, not your own credit. So much of the web we take for granted rests on foundations people like him quietly built. I find that genuinely humbling.

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Name (English)

Brian Behlendorf

Name (Japanese)

ブライアン・ベエレンドルフ

Reading

ぶらいあん・べえれんどるふ

Born

March 30, 1973 (age 53)

Occupation

engineer / computer scientist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Ox

High school

La Cañada High School

University

University of California, Berkeley

Awards & achievements

• 1999 ACM Software System Award

• Official sitehttp://brian.behlendorf.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/brianbehlendorf
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Behlendorf
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93016

Tags

• engineer
• computer scientist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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