Daniel Stenberg
Swedish developer who created curl and leads it; works on curl for wolfSSL.
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- Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish software developer who created curl and is still its lead developer.
- He worked at Mozilla from 2013 to 2018 and joined wolfSSL in February 2019 to work on curl full time.
- He takes part in the IETF HTTP and QUIC working groups.
- He received the Polhem Prize in 2017 and the IVA Gold Medal in 2025 for his work on curl.
Key facts
- Known for
- Founder and lead developer of curl and libcurl2
- Work
- Full time on curl for wolfSSL (from February 2019) and Haxx1
- Earlier
- Mozilla, from 2013 to 20181
- Standards
- IETF HTTPbis and QUIC working groups2
- Awards
- Polhem Prize (2017); Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences Gold Medal (2025); European Open Source Achievement Award (2025)2
- Also
- President of the European Open Source Academy (as of 2026); member of Polhemsrådet2
Roles
Leads
- curlProduct
lead developer source on curl
Founded
- curlProduct
since 1996 source on curl
Before
Part of until 2018
Links
Sources
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