Raph Levien

Raph Levien
Born1970 (age 53–54)
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
OccupationProgrammer
EmployerGoogle
Known forAdvogato
Children2
Websitewww.levien.com

Raphael Linus Levien (also known as Raph Levien; born April 6, 1970) is a software developer, a member of the free software developer community, through his creation of the Advogato virtual community and his work with the free software branch of Ghostscript. From 2007 until 2018, and from 2021 onwards, he was employed at Google.[1][2][3] He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.[4] He also made a computer-assisted proof system similar to Metamath: Ghilbert. In April 2016, Levien announced a text editor made as a "20% Project" (Google allows some employees to spend 20% of their working hours developing their own projects): Xi.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference levien.com was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Levien, Raphael (2018-08-28). "A New Adventure". Raph Levien’s blog. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Raph Levien (@raphlinus)". Twitter. Archived from the original on 2021-01-20. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
  4. ^ Levien, Raph (23 August 2008). "The elastica: a mathematical history" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on Sep 27, 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-04.