Daniel Stenberg

Magnus Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish developer and recipient of the 2017 Polhem Prize for his work on cURL.

He was born and raised in Huddinge, a suburb south of Sweden's capital Stockholm. He created a utility which, after various name and license changes, became known as cURL and is currently available under the cURL License (based on the MIT License. )

From 2013 to 2018, he worked for Mozilla. In February 2019, Daniel joined wolfSSL to offer commercial support for cURL and to work on cURL as full-time as possible. He is active in the IETF, a member of the working groups for HTTP/2 and QUIC, and contributed to several RFCs.

In April 2023, he became a member of the Polhemsrådet, the Polhem Prize's committee.