Jordan Hubbard

Jordan Hubbard

Jordan K. Hubbard (born April 8, 1963) is an American open source software developer, authoring software such as the Ardent Window Manager and various other open source tools and libraries before co-founding the FreeBSD project with Nate Williams and Rodney W. Grimes in 1993, for which he contributed the initial FreeBSD Ports collection, package management system and sysinstall. In July 2001 Hubbard joined Apple Computer in the role of manager of the BSD technology group, during which time he was one of the creators of MacPorts. In 2005, his title was "Director of UNIX Technology" and in October 2007, Hubbard was promoted to "Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies" at Apple where he remained until June 2013. On July 15, 2013, he became CTO of iXsystems where he also led the FreeNAS open source project. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 14 different languages on Wikipedia. Jordan Hubbard is the 250th most popular computer scientist, the 18,942nd most popular biography from United States and the 127th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Jordan Hubbard is most famous for his contributions to the FreeBSD operating system and for being a key figure in the open-source software community. He has also played a significant role in the development of various software projects and tools within the BSD ecosystem.