Stuart Cheshire

Stuart Cheshire is a Distinguished Engineer, Scientist and Technologist (DEST) at Apple. He pioneered Zeroconf networking while employed at Apple. Zeroconf was originally released by Apple as Rendezvous, but later renamed Bonjour. Subsequently, he co-authored the book Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide, published by O'Reilly, with Daniel H Steinberg.

He is the author or co-author of 27 IETF RFCs principally concerning multicast DNS, and NAT.

He is also the author of Bolo, a networked tank game, originally written for the BBC Micro and later ported to the Apple Macintosh.