- Born
- December 28, 1969 (age 56)
- Known as
- programmer, software developer, writer, inventor, blogger, computer scientist
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel since 1991. He also created the distributed version control system Git.
Biography from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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