= Fabrice Bellard
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{title2=creator of QEMU and FFmpeg}
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Creator of <QEMU> and <FFmpeg>, both of which <Ciro Santilli> deeply respects. And a bunch other random stuff.
What is shocking about Fabrice this is that both are insanely important software that <Ciro Santilli> really likes, and both seem to be completely unrelated subjects!
<Google> made billions on top of this dude:
* <FFmpeg is the backend of YouTube>
* <QEMU> is the default emulator for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Studio[Android Studio] as of 2019, which <Android> developers use by default under the hood to develop Android Apps on their desktop without the need for a real device.
At last but not least, Fabrice also studied in the same school that <Ciro Santilli> studied in France, <École Polytechnique>.
It is a shame that he keeps such a low profile, there are no videos of him on the web, and he https://smartbear.com/blog/test-and-monitor/fabrice-bellard-portrait-of-a-super-productive-pro/[declines interviews].
Another surprising fact is that Fabrice has not worked for the "Big Tech Companies" as far as can be publicly seen, but rather mostly on smaller companies that he co-founded: https://www.quora.com/Computer-Programmers/Computer-Programmers-Where-is-Fabrice-Bellard-employed
And he's also into some completely random projcts unsurprisingly:
* https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/january/6/ Computer Scientist Fabrice Bellard Announces Computing Pi to Record Number of Digits
Bibliography:
* https://smartbear.com/de/blog/2011/fabrice-bellard-portrait-of-a-super-productive-pro/ contains a list of his projects as of 2011
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{title=<Fabrice Bellard> in 2007}
{description=At a restaurant with the author apparently. Plus Miguel De Icaza who was in Paris for some conference, which they all presumably attended.}
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{title=<Fabrice Bellard> with light}
{description=There are no in-focus images of Fabrice on the <Internet>.}
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