Junio Hamano

Japanese software engineer

Junio Hamano (Japanese: 濱野 純) is a software engineer and hacker from Japan. He is best known for leading a large team of software developers who maintain Git.[1] Linus Torvalds, the original developer, has said that one of his big successes was recognizing Hamano's skills as a developer.[2] Torvalds turned the entire project over to Hamano in July 2005.[3] Hamano lives in California and works for Google.

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  1. Matthew Helmke, Ubuntu Unleashed (SAMS, 2014), pp. 699–700
  2. Scott Merrill (19 April 2012). "An Interview With Linus Torvalds". AOL Tech. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
  3. Fadi P. Deek; James A. M. McHugh, Open Source: Technology and Policy (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 149