Brian Behlendorf (born March 30, 1973) is an American technologist, executive, computer programmer and leading figure in the open-source software movement.

It turned out that Behlendorf wasn't the only one busy patching the NCSA code at the time, so he and Skolnick put together an electronic mailing list to coordinate the work of the other programmers.

[11] CollabNet used to be the primary corporate sponsor of the open source version control system Subversion, before it became a project of the Apache Software Foundation.

[3] He was a managing director at Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital, a global technology investment firm based in San Francisco, from 2014 until he joined the Linux Foundation.

In 2016, he was appointed executive director of the open source Hyperledger project at the Linux Foundation to advance blockchain technology.