Andrew Tridgell

b. 1967, Australia · Principal author of Samba and rsync; Australian computer scientist

Also known as: Tridgell, Tridge

Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell wrote Samba in 1992, reverse-engineering the SMB protocol so Linux systems could serve Windows file shares. Samba is the standard SMB/CIFS server on Linux NAS devices and corporate networks.

He also wrote rsync in 1996, whose delta-transfer algorithm is used across Linux for backups, mirroring, and large-file synchronisation.