Michael Tiemann
Michael Tiemann | |
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| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania (Moore School of Electrical Engineering) |
| Occupation(s) | Software engineer, corporate leader |
| Known for | Vice president for open source initiatives at Red Hat; President of the Open Source Initiative; co-founder of Cygnus Solutions; creator of GNU C++ compiler |
Michael Tiemann is a prominent American software engineer and corporate leader, currently holding the position of vice president for open source initiatives at Red Hat. He previously served as President of the Open Source Initiative.
Biography
In 1986, he completed his bachelor's degree at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, part of the University of Pennsylvania.
Tiemann was a co-founder of Cygnus Solutions in 1989. His contributions to free software development include creating the GNU C++ compiler and contributing to both the GNU C compiler and the GNU Debugger. He appears in the 2001 film Revolution OS. In 2014, Opensource.com recognized him as one of the foremost communicators in the open source community.
He has held the role of chief technical officer at Red Hat and participated on various boards, such as the Embedded Linux Consortium, the advisory board for the GNOME Foundation, and the board of directors at ActiveState Tool Corp.
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