| Intro | Compiler writer and Free Software contributor |
| Known for | bzip2, Valgrind |
| Is |
Engineer Computer scientist |
| From | United Kingdom |
| Type |
Engineering Technology Science |
| Gender | male |
Julian Seward is a British compiler writer and Free Software contributor who lives in Stuttgart. He is commonly known for creating the bzip2 compression tool in 1996, as well as the valgrind memory debugging toolset founded in 2000. In 2006, he won a second Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award for his work on Valgrind.
Julian currently works at Mozilla.
Contributions
- bzip2 (1996), a data compressor
- cacheprof (1999), a tool for locating the sources of D-cache misses
- Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC)
- Valgrind, a memory debugger
Awards
- July 2006 Julian Seward won a Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award for “Best Toolmaker” for his work on Valgrind