Wietse Venema

Dr. Wietse Zweitze Venema (born 1951) is a Dutch programmer and physicist best known for writing the Postfix mail system. He has also written numerous other security related tools, such as SATAN and The Coroner's Toolkit, both in co-operation with Dan Farmer, and TCP Wrapper.

Biography

He studied physics at the University of Groningen, graduating with a PhD. 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 he has been working for the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York State.

In his spare time he enjoys hiking and cycling with his wife, Annita.

Awards

Awards Wietse has received for his work:

* Security Summit Hall of Fame Award (July 1998)
* SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award (November 1999)
* NLUUG Award (November 2000)
* Sendmail Milter Innovation Award (November 2006)

External links

* [http://www.porcupine.org/wietse/ Personal Website]
* [http://www.nndb.com/people/968/000031875/ NNDB information]
* [http://www.postfix.org/linuxsecurity-200407.html Interview with Wietse Venema (2004)] - interview with Linuxsecurity.com
* [http://www.safemode.org/WietseVenema.html Interview with Wietse Venema (1999)] - interview about TCP Wrapper development