Junio Hamano

b. 1961, Japan · Git's lead maintainer for two decades

Also known as: Hamano, Junio C. Hamano

Junio Hamano has been the maintainer of Git since July 2005, three months after Linus Torvalds wrote the first version. He has shaped most of Git's modern command set, cuts a release roughly every three months, and moderates the Git mailing list. Git underpins kernel development and virtually every Linux project.