Fabrice Bellard (creator of QEMU and FFmpeg)

Creator of QEMU and FFmpeg, both of which Ciro Santilli deeply respects. And a bunch other random stuff.

What is shocking about Fabrice this is that both are insanely important software that Ciro Santilli really likes, and both seem to be completely unrelated subjects!

Google made billions on top of this dude:

FFmpeg is the backend of YouTube
QEMU is the default emulator for Android Studio as of 2019, which Android developers use by default under the hood to develop Android Apps on their desktop without the need for a real device.

At last but not least, Fabrice also studied in the same school that Ciro studied in France, École Polytechnique.

It is a shame that he keeps such a low profile, there are no videos of him on the web, and he declines interviews.

Another surprising fact is that Fabrice has not worked for the "Big Tech Companies" as far as can be publicly seen, but rather mostly on smaller companies that he co-founded: www.quora.com/Computer-Programmers/Computer-Programmers-Where-is-Fabrice-Bellard-employed

And he's also into some completely random projcts unsurprisingly:

www.computerhistory.org/tdih/january/6/ Computer Scientist Fabrice Bellard Announces Computing Pi to Record Number of Digits

Bibliography:

smartbear.com/de/blog/2011/fabrice-bellard-portrait-of-a-super-productive-pro/ contains a list of his projects as of 2011

Figure 2. Fabrice Bellard in 2007. Source. At a restaurant with the author apparently. Plus Miguel De Icaza who was in Paris for some conference, which they all presumably attended.

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