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94th percentile
Founder and lead developer of curl, running in 30 billion installations
Credibility
GTM / Distribution · 93th percentile
- curl.se ranks #913 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Current founder and lead developer of the cURL project.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)curl.se ranks #913 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)25,022 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Awarded the 2017 Polhem Prize for his work on cURL — Sweden's premier technology innovation prize.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Created cURL, used in an estimated 30 billion installations — among the most widely deployed open source components in the world.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)59,374 reputation on Stack Overflow with top tags in curl, libcurl, and HTTP.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Maintainer spotlight feature in the official GitHub Blog profiling his work on cURL.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Wikipedia and Wikidata entity exists for him — notability threshold.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Received the European Open Source Achievement Award 2025 — recognition for deep technical work on open source infrastructure.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)IETF participant in HTTPbis and QUIC working groups — deep domain expertise in internet protocols.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Google maintains a Knowledge Graph panel for him as a Swedish software developer.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Received the Nordic Free Software Award.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past founder of Haxx AB, a Swedish software consultancy.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Recognized as a GitHub Star and Microsoft MVP — industry recognition for technical depth in open source.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Identified researcher on OpenAlex with 271 citations across networking publications.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Haxx AB was co-founded with other engineers.
What you likely need
You're a foundational open-source maintainer running one of the world's most-deployed software components — events that pay off for you are technical roundtables with other long-tenured maintainers, policy/funding conversations for OSS sustainability, and small dinners where you can share what running curl as a CEO-of-a-nonprofit actually looks like. Lean into gatherings tied to internet protocols (HTTP/3, QUIC) and to the European OSS policy space where you already hold a seat. Skip generic founder fundraising rooms — they're not the leverage point for your work.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsAn intimate dinner with other long-tenured OSS maintainers (curl, OpenSSL, SQLite, ffmpeg) to compare sustainability and bug-bounty strategy.
- positioningA European Open Source Academy policy roundtable with EU regulators to shape CRA implementation for maintainers.
- tacticalAn IETF HTTPbis/QUIC working-group happy hour to swap notes with protocol implementers ahead of the next interim.
- tacticalA workshop for OSS maintainers on triaging AI-generated vulnerability reports, building on curl's public stance on the issue.
- fundraisingA Sovereign Tech Fund / Open Source Pledge intro night to meet program officers funding critical-infrastructure OSS.
- introsA GitHub Stars and Microsoft MVP dinner for cross-ecosystem maintainer intros and collab opportunities.
- introsA Stockholm founder/maintainer happy hour to meet local technical founders building on top of libcurl.
- wellbeingA small wellbeing circle for solo lead maintainers of critical OSS to talk openly about pressure and pace.