Daniel Robbins is a computer programmer who founded the Gentoo Linux project and was its former chief architect.
Gentoo struggled to create a business model that would support its key developers, like many other free software projects at the time.
He rejoined the project for a short time from August 2006,[3][4] becoming a developer again in February 2007 and joining the amd64 team[5] but resigned in early March 2007.
He described his role working for Bill Hilf as "...helping Microsoft to understand Open Source and community-based projects..."[16] However, Robbins resigned less than a year later in January 2006 due to frustrations that he was unable to fully utilize his technical skills in this position.
Daniel Robbins is also president of Funtoo Technologies, a consulting firm founded in 2006 and located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.