Wietse Venema

Wietse Zweitze Venema (born 1951) is a Dutch programmer and physicist best known for writing the Postfix email system. He also wrote TCP Wrapper and collaborated with Dan Farmer to produce the computer security tools SATAN and The Coroner's Toolkit.[1][2][3]

Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema speaking at a conference in 2004
Born1951 (age 69–70)
Jakarta
NationalityDutch
Alma materUniversity of Groningen
Known forPostfix MTA, TCP Wrappers
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsGoogle, Inc.
Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Eindhoven University of Technology

Biography

He studied physics at the University of Groningen, continuing there to get a PhD in 1984 with the dissertation Left-right symmetry in nuclear beta decay.[4] He spent 12 years at Eindhoven University as a systems architect in the Mathematics and Computer Science department, and spent part of this time writing tools for Electronic Data Interchange. Since emigrating to the U.S. in 1996 and until 2015, he has been working for the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York State.[5] On March 24, 2015, he announced he was leaving IBM for Google.[6]

Awards

Awards Venema has received for his work:[7]

References
  1. "Wietse Venema". Faces of Open Source. 2018-10-01.
  2. Dunston, Duane; Day, Brittany (2004-07-08). "Catching up with Wietse Venema, creator of Postfix and TCP Wrapper". LinuxSecurity.com.
  3. "The Wietse Venema Interview". safemode.org. 2002. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  4. Venema, Wietse Zweitze (1984). "Left-right symmetry in nuclear beta decay". University of Groningen.
  5. "Wietse Z. Venema: UNIX/Internet Security". IBM. Archived from the original on 2014-08-08.
  6. Venema, Wietse Zweitze (2015-03-24). "Goodbye IBM, Hello Google". postfix-users mailing list.
  7. "Wietse's Awards". porcupine.org.
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