Julian Seward

Julian Seward
Known forbzip2, valgrind

Julian Seward is a British compiler writer and Free Software contributor who lives in Stuttgart.[1] 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 O'Reilly Open Source Award for his work on Valgrind. As of 2009, Seward worked at Mozilla.[2]

  1. ^ "Julian Seward". UK Companies House. Archived from the original on 3 April 2017.
  2. ^ Rob Sayre's Blog