Biography:Daniel Stenberg

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Short description: Swedish software developer
Daniel Stenberg
Self-portrait of Daniel Stenberg in 2015.
Daniel Stenberg in 2015
Born (1970-11-23) November 23, 1970 (age 53)[1]
OccupationComputer Scientist/Programmer
Notable work
cURL
Websitedaniel.haxx.se

Magnus Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish developer, recipient of the Polhem Prize 2017[2][3] for his work on cURL.

He was born and raised in Huddinge, a suburb south of Sweden's capital Stockholm. He created a utility which, after various name and license changes, became known as curl, and is currently available under the MIT License.[4]

From 2013 to 2018, he worked for Mozilla.[5] In February 2019, Daniel joined wolfSSL,[6] to offer commercial support for curl, and to work on curl as full-time as possible.[7] He is active in the IETF and there among other part of the working groups for HTTP/2 and QUIC[8] and contributed to several RFCs.[9]

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