Miguel de Icaza

b. 1972, Mexico City · Software engineer; co-founder of GNOME, Mono, Xamarin

Also known as: de Icaza, Miguel

Miguel de Icaza, with Federico Mena, founded the GNOME desktop project in 1997. GNOME is one of the two dominant Linux desktop environments and is the default on Ubuntu, Fedora, and RHEL.

He later founded Ximian (the Evolution mail client) and launched Mono, an open-source implementation of .NET that runs on Linux.