Magnus Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish developer and recipient of the 2017 Polhem Prize (for a high-level technological innovation or an ingenious solution to a technical problem)[4][5] for his work on the cURL utility.

Stenberg was born and raised in Huddinge, a suburb south of Sweden's capital Stockholm.

[7] In February 2019, Stenberg joined wolfSSL[8] to offer commercial support for cURL and to work on cURL as full-time as possible.

[9] He is active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a member of the working groups for the HTTP/2 and QUIC network protocols,[10] and contributed to several technical Requests for Comments (RFCs).

[11] In April 2023, he became a member of the Polhemsrådet, the Polhem Prize's committee.