Julian Seward

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 O'Reilly Open Source Award for his work on Valgrind. As of 2009, Seward worked at Mozilla.

Contributions

 * bzip2 (1996), a data compressor
 * cacheprof (1999), a tool for locating the sources of D-cache misses
 * 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