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My Take
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.
Overview
Brian Behlendorf (born March 30, 1973) 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.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Ox
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- engineer / computer scientist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- La Cañada High School
- University
- University of California, Berkeley
Awards & achievements
- 1999 ACM Software System Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Engineer — see all → · Computer scientist — see all →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.